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Yep, they are. EA81/MY use a shorter shaft, but all EA82/L are interchangeable, even though most have an outer CV.

Heli-coil, properly installed, is stronger than the original part. We prefer to heli-coil the tensioner brackets and we do it often. Check valve lash. If the timing is right and the lash is good then very likely there's a very sloppy rod bearing that's about to start making noise. Turning it by hand gets the rod cap bolt hung up on part of the block. I've seen this a few times. They can often run a long time this way but in no way is it a good thing. GD

Direct bolt in. Dual range lever is needed and rear diff must match as mentioned already. Cheers Bennie

@Geoff F - what marks did you use for each cam? Cheers Bennie

Oh , the tensioner piece you helicoiled is replaceable. Three bolts I think , much safer to replace this than trust a helicoil. Wrecking yard or the dealer , money & time well spent

I have attached a picture of how my crank is lined up when I try installing the belt. So I see (and am using) the white tab/groove on the front of the sprocket but it also appears that there is another tab on the same tooth on the rear of the sprocket. Is this what you are referring to? Or are you saying I should be using that rear sprocket as my reference and line it at the 12 o'clock position so that there aren't any teeth to the left of the 12 o'clock position when it's properly aligned? Thanks for the quick response.

The 3AT's suffered from pump drive spline failure. Replacement parts don't exist. EJ22's will far outlast any of the EA's given the same maintenance, and make twice the power. There's no need to run around with 85 HP when you can have 137 and THE SAME reliability and economy. Especially when you can't get any hard parts for the EA engines anymore. GD

I am still learning how to share Photos from IMGUR ... ... I hope the images displays correctly, also I hope that IMGUR does not Scramble their web links as Facebook does. Let me Know if these images displays Properly; they'll are from the EJ22 with Carb & Disty from Factory. Still I don't know how to embed a Video from IMGUR here, I uploaded this one: https://imgur.com/gallery/C6iTgMp Please, Let me Know if they display here. Kind Regards.