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Message started by KenGLong on 07/11/09 at 15:10:42

Title: Camshaft alignment
Post by KenGLong on 07/11/09 at 15:10:42

Help!

Ok, I've been fighting it for three hours now. Is there a trick to getting the chain on the cam shaft gear and the gear on the camshaft and having it all line up properly too?

Should the alignment dowel be in or out when I'm getting the cam lined up at TDC?

Should the gear at the bottom of the chain be in place while I'm doing all this or do I install it last?

Dang thing anyway.

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by verslagen1 on 07/11/09 at 15:28:15

If I recall, put the tensioner guide in last.
Chain on bottom pulley
chain on top pulley
slip cam in
forward side of chain taunt, check alignment
Start with cam marks aligned, then rotate CCW to engage teeth.

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by KenGLong on 07/11/09 at 15:50:18

Yes! I removed the rear guide (tensioner). Then I was able to get the chain on the gear and the gear on the shaft and have it all line up. Once the chain was in place, I muscled the rear guide back in.

This new chain and new guides make for a very tight fit. There doesn't seem to be any slack in the chain front or back. Me thinks this is a good thing!

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by verslagen1 on 07/11/09 at 16:26:58

How much plunger sticking out?

Last years Super Chain?

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by KenGLong on 07/11/09 at 16:38:42

796A7D7C636E686A613E0F0 wrote:

How much plunger sticking out?

Last years Super Chain?

Don't have the adjuster in yet. Will report on that when I do. The new chain is a stock Suzuki chain. (Hadda take a break. It's 100 deg in my garage and that's with the doors and windows open with a big fan blowing on me.)

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by verslagen1 on 07/11/09 at 16:50:39

understood same here.

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by KenGLong on 07/11/09 at 17:06:18

New front guide, new rear tensioner guide, new stock cam chain, new Verslavy adjuster. The plunger is out 10.8mm from the body to the start of the bevel with the bolt in the stock hole. I tried to get it into the modified hole but it just wouldn't go.

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by verslagen1 on 07/11/09 at 17:17:17

10 mm for all new stuff is what I would expect.
And it's what I think new bikes come as.
2nd hole would be way to tight.

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 07/12/09 at 05:27:10

I hope you soaked that chain in oil a while first.
If not, I'd drizzle oil on it several times b4 I fired it up.

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by KenGLong on 07/12/09 at 09:04:57

I used a liberal amount of engine assembly lubricant. It's not the grease kind though, it's like heavy sticky oil. I'll put some more on right before I put the head cover back on and again before I put the clutch cover back on. I also filled the reservoir under the cam lobes with engine oil.

In any case, this engine has been sitting for over a year. I plan on filling it with cheap dino oil, running it for a hundred miles then changing the oil with the good stuff.

Title: Re: Camshaft alignment
Post by verslagen1 on 07/12/09 at 09:15:16

The engine takes 2 qts. usually.

Take off the forward valve inspection cover and fill as much as it will hold.

The rest as usually.