Starter shims?

I'll tell you a little story about Lakewood "quality." In the early 70's I was "into" 4 wheeling. Two then friends of mine, one had a factory V6 CJ, the other a then new (75?) CJ he had swapped in a SB Chev.

Both were going to convert to Ford top loaders, adapted to Jeep transfer cases

The V6 installation, the bolt pattern on the bell was ROTATED so that the transfer case hung down further than it should!!!

The V8 swap, the alignment was so bad between block and bell, the owner had to have custom dowels machined to get the thing aligned.

BOTH these guys are very VERY knowledgable, and at the time ran a very good independent body shop.