[davepl]

I don't want to be the "RTFM" guy, but I had to do this myself a month or so back and the factory shop manual has the steps you need to bend the rod to the correct length. It tells you to pull it to full stop and then bend rod to adjust, etc...

It got me -very- close. I made one small tweak to my personal preference on it but the book got me to where it'd start, idle, run and drive just fine.

So, RTFM :-)