toyota timing chain timeout!

I need some help building a 3RZ-FE 2.7L engine. I've got a few questions but most important currently is when i install the first (inner) timing chain exactly as instructed everything seems to line up ok. But when i attempt to confirm the chain is indeed aligned i rotate the engine many many times and it doesn't ever seem to re-align as i would expect. Ive been building race engines for many years so this shouldn't even be an issue but yet here we are. Someone that knows what you're doing please help! cause i apparently don't.

 

@Tacoma Mike

 

I just use to rotate it backwards 1/4 turn being mindful of the tensioner collapse and rotate it back up and check it that way. Then your chain is tensioned in correct rotation. You’re going to rotate that thing like forever before shit will line up again if your trying to use the the chain marks..LOL.

 

ok so what I'm observing is normal and i should move on? cause that would be super I'm about stretch my vocabulary on this thing.

 

I do that on a daily basis, that's the secret to good blood pressure.

Good luck on your truck.

 

It has more links in the chain than teeth on the sprockets. It will take a lot of rotations to ever get in sync again. The belts are the same way.

edit: something about the ratio anyway. One is odd/one even maybe?

 

Thank you all for the advise I'll give that a go and I'll post the results and my next question asap thank again.

 

3.4l timing belt same way, lines up 1x. I second guessed myself when I did mine cause it didn't line up after the fact. In the end it was perfect