1150 Oh no! Off one tooth on cam timing? Pics too.

[Sandy]

I misinterpreted your problem thinking it was a problem with where the arrow was on the intake cam, sorry about that. If the exhaust marks aren't lining up then you most likely have to retime them. lf you have to maybe by removing the chain tensioner and maybe one sprocket you'll have enough wiggle room to move things around. Good luck with it.

[blowerbike]

I want to see the end of the cams

no notches in the pictures...

[Carter Turk]

The notches are off, inward or outward when on the fixed timing mark. Don't know how I did that with the factory manual sitting right next to me. I'll pull them and report back. I did find an older picture I had showing the exhaust cam #1 arrow pointing flush with the case, but the arrow was pointing straight through a side plate.

[Carter Turk]

One tooth off on each sprocket. The arrow even points between plates like they show on 3-68.

One weird discrepancy is the illustration in the manual shows 5 side plates between #1 on the exhaust cam and #2, when there's only 4 side plates. Haven't fired it up yet.

[londonboards]

Bit behind the times on this one but I just did it myself and had some fun.

One thing I found is that if you pull up the front cam chain guide, it allows enough slack (with the cam chain tensioner removed) to allow you to slip the chain off the cam chain sprocket and move it along a link or two.

My problem was that I got it all lined up at the top but the T mark was way off on the crankshaft end.

All of these need to line up:















And I finally managed to get 20 pins between the 2/3 markers. I never ended up with the no.1 arrow pointing to a gap between 2 chain links. My no. 1 points to the middle of a chain link. I'm guessing that the line drawing in the post above is not entirely accurate, as it would be impossible to have the no. 1 pointing between 2 links and the exhaust cam 2/3 mark pointing at a chain pin.

Or have I cocked it up somewhere a long the line?

Greetings

[chef1366]

Perfect!
.....................

[Carter Turk]

Yes, I'm stoked to have back on the road. It's got about 450 miles on it now. Motor feels strong, laughing to myself about the old school grunt this thing has.

London, I somehow after my mistake, got the arrow to point in between side plates. I think I was paying to much attention to the picture in the manual regarding pin orientation. Maybe if the crank is rotated 360 with cams out and tension on the cam chain the #1 arrow might point in between side plates?

[londonboards]

Carter - But the distance between the marker arrow no. 1 and the exhaust marker arrow 2/3 will never change. In my book that would make it impossible to replicate the drawing in the post above.

I have a spare exhaust cam and a cam chain and it has to be impossible to match the drawing as you say in reality there are only 4 chain plates between the markers not 5 as shown in the illustration:





Greetings

[Carter Turk]

London, I was refering to your #20 post picture 4 of the cam chain pointing through a side plate. One rotation of the crank change where the arrow points?

[Sandy]

London, I was refering to your #20 post picture 4 of the cam chain pointing through a side plate. One rotation of the crank change where the arrow points?

I looked closely at the picture and it is actually slightly wrong and is really a poor representation. If you count the sprocket teeth (not links or pins) in the diagram between the #1 arrow and the #3 arrow you'll see there are 9 teeth where in actual fact there are 8 teeth.

[blowerbike]

arrow points towards pins...picture is wrong or lost clarity during printing.

[Carter Turk]

arrow points towards pins...picture is wrong or lost clarity during printing.

Well, mine points between side plates now. Like the "bubble" they emphasize on 3-68.