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
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.