K-frame alignment?

with the floor jack in front of the k-frame
The best I could do with the strut rod in there was to jack up the front edge of the k-frame. The bar wouldn't go in when I did that, and it also wouldn't pull back out until I released the jack so it seems that was the opposite way to go?

Referring to this
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I've moved things enough to where the bar leaves the middle of the socket on the L-R axis but it still seems like it's still coming out too high so that seems to me like the k-frame/LCA needs to move downward. I've got some 16ga steel so I could cut out some shims easily enough to see if that helps I guess. Probably can't shim it much if at all because of the shoulder/socket interface on the bolts/frame. But it might be a worthwhile experiment. First I'm going to remove the LCA and see if there's anything up with that.