diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index e4d84a0..34c7cc4 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -225,7 +225,9 @@ struct Lighthouse {
 #[pymethods]
 impl Lighthouse {
     #[new]
-    fn new(py: Python<'_>, bind: String, min_replicas: u64) -> PyResult<Self> {
+    fn new(py: Python<'_>, bind: String, min_replicas: u64, join_timeout_ms: Option<u64>) -> PyResult<Self> {
+        let join_timeout_ms = join_timeout_ms.unwrap_or(100);
+
         py.allow_threads(move || {
             let rt = Runtime::new()?;
 
@@ -233,7 +235,7 @@ impl Lighthouse {
                 .block_on(lighthouse::Lighthouse::new(lighthouse::LighthouseOpt {
                     bind: bind,
                     min_replicas: min_replicas,
-                    join_timeout_ms: 100,
+                    join_timeout_ms: join_timeout_ms,
                     quorum_tick_ms: 100,
                 }))
                 .map_err(|e| PyRuntimeError::new_err(e.to_string()))?;
diff --git a/torchft/manager_integ_test.py b/torchft/manager_integ_test.py
index 2bb961e..4aefc3b 100644
--- a/torchft/manager_integ_test.py
+++ b/torchft/manager_integ_test.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 from torchft.optim import OptimizerWrapper
 from torchft.process_group import ProcessGroupGloo
 from torchft.torchft import Lighthouse
+import time
 
 logger: logging.Logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -252,6 +253,76 @@ def state_dict() -> Dict[str, Dict[str, object]]:
         return state_dict()
 
 
+def manual_manager_management_train_loop(
+    rank: int,
+    store_port: int,
+    runner: Runner,
+) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, object]]:
+    with ExitStack() as stack:
+
+        def load_state_dict(state_dict: Dict[str, Dict[str, object]]) -> None:
+            m.load_state_dict(state_dict["model"])
+            optimizer.load_state_dict(state_dict["optim"])
+
+        def state_dict() -> Dict[str, Dict[str, object]]:
+            return {
+                "model": m.state_dict(),
+                "optim": optimizer.state_dict(),
+            }
+
+        print(f"worker {runner.replica_id=} {rank=} {runner.world_size=} starting")
+
+        pg = ProcessGroupGloo()
+        manager = Manager(
+            pg=pg,
+            min_replica_size=2,
+            load_state_dict=load_state_dict,
+            state_dict=state_dict,
+            replica_id=str(runner.replica_id),
+            store_addr="localhost",
+            store_port=store_port,
+            rank=rank,
+            world_size=runner.world_size,
+            lighthouse_addr=runner.lighthouse_address,
+            port=19530 + runner.replica_id,
+            # pyre-fixme[6]: Incompatible parameter type
+            **runner.manager_args,
+        )
+        stack.callback(manager.shutdown)
+
+        m: nn.Module = MyModel()
+        optimizer: optim.Optimizer = optim.Adam(m.parameters())
+        criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
+
+        model_states = []
+
+        while True:
+            manager.start_quorum("start", allow_heal=True)
+            model_states.append({k: v.detach().clone() for k, v in state_dict()["model"].items()})
+            inputs = torch.rand(2, 3)
+            labels = torch.randint(4, (2,))
+
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+            out = m(inputs)
+            time.sleep(1)
+            loss = criterion(out, labels)
+
+            loss.backward()
+
+            optimizer.step()
+            manager.start_quorum("end", allow_heal=False)
+            if manager.should_commit():
+                for p in m.parameters():
+                    manager.allreduce(p).wait()
+
+            if manager.current_step() >= 5:
+                break
+
+            runner.failure_injector.check(rank, manager.current_step())
+
+        # return state_dict so we can check consistency
+        return model_states
+
 class ManagerIntegTest(TestCase):
     def test_ddp_healthy(self) -> None:
         lighthouse = Lighthouse(
@@ -423,3 +494,56 @@ def test_local_sgd_recovery(self) -> None:
             )
 
         self.assertEqual(failure_injectors[1].count, 1)
+
+    def test_join(self) -> None:
+        lighthouse = Lighthouse(
+            bind="[::]:0",
+            min_replicas=2,
+            join_timeout_ms=100,
+        )
+        num_replicas = 2
+        futures = []
+
+        with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=3) as executor:
+            for replica_id in range(num_replicas):
+                runner = Runner(
+                    replica_id=replica_id,
+                    lighthouse_address=lighthouse.address(),
+                    failure_injector=FailureInjector(),
+                    train_loop=manual_manager_management_train_loop,
+                    manager_args={
+                        "use_async_quorum": False,
+                    },
+                )
+                futures.append(executor.submit(runner.run_replica))
+
+            time.sleep(3)
+            runner = Runner(
+                replica_id=2,
+                lighthouse_address=lighthouse.address(),
+                failure_injector=FailureInjector(),
+                train_loop=manual_manager_management_train_loop,
+                manager_args={
+                    "use_async_quorum": False,
+                },
+            )
+            futures.append(executor.submit(runner.run_replica))
+
+            state_dicts = []
+
+            for fut in as_completed(futures):
+                try:
+                    state_dicts.append(fut.result())
+                    print(state_dicts[-1])
+                except Exception as e:
+                    print(e)
+                    raise
+
+        lighthouse.shutdown()
+
+        #for state_dict in state_dicts:
+        #    # LocalSGD only guarantees that the model is consistent across
+        #    # replicas but uses separate optimizer states.
+        #    torch.testing.assert_close(
+        #        state_dict[0]["model"], state_dicts[0][0]["model"]
+        #    )
diff --git a/torchft/torchft.pyi b/torchft/torchft.pyi
index aee2947..4249ac3 100644
--- a/torchft/torchft.pyi
+++ b/torchft/torchft.pyi
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ class Manager:
     def shutdown(self) -> None: ...
 
 class Lighthouse:
-    def __init__(self, bind: str, min_replicas: int) -> None: ...
+    def __init__(self, bind: str, min_replicas: int, join_timeout_ms: Optional[int]) -> None: ...
     def address(self) -> str: ...
     def shutdown(self) -> None: ...