Am I screwed?

1990 3vze

Put the timing belt on and marked it on the cams and crank. Turned it all the way over twice. I jumps a tooth to the left each time but I have read that it is supposed to do that. What concerns me is that when I lined the crank back up, the passenger side cam did not line up with its timing mark on the backing plate, the drivers side was close.




Then I found this...


And this...


I'm leaning towards buying a new harmonic balancer and leaving the woodruff key as is. I think it will hold fine especially if I get it torqued good.

The easiest way I've found to make sure the belt doesn't jump while installing it.

Place the belt on the crank....wrap it onto the driver side gear....to hold the belt securing onto that cam gear use a c-clamp ......to get the pass. side gear to align correctly...place a breaker bar with the 17mm socket and turn it slightly Clockwise...the belt should slide right on no sweat and will be aligned, then turn the cam gear back to top dead center...doing so will tighten the belt between the two cams.....you should know by now though...when the pass cam gear is set to the TDC with the arrow...the valves are in midstroke...so hold onto the breaker bar while spinning the pass. cam gear...I've done at least 10 head gasket jobs and this works everytime.....once the belts on...turn the motor over twice with the breaker bar to check the belt stays in time.

I bottoned it back up and it has been running for a week. Passed smog with flying colors. No problems other than a bad injector. I fixed that and I'm averaging 18.9mpg.