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KenGLong

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Camshaft alignment
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.

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Camshaft alignment Reply #1 - 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.
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Re: Camshaft alignment
Reply #2 - 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!

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Camshaft alignment Reply #3 - 07/11/09 at 16:26:58 How much plunger sticking out? Last years Super Chain?
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KenGLong Senior Member Alliance Member Offline 2002 Savage Posts: 297 Albuquerque, NM Gender:	Re: Camshaft alignment Reply #4 - 07/11/09 at 16:38:42 verslagen1 wrote on 07/11/09 at 16:26:58: 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.)
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Camshaft alignment Reply #5 - 07/11/09 at 16:50:39 understood same here.
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KenGLong Senior Member Alliance Member Offline 2002 Savage Posts: 297 Albuquerque, NM Gender:	Re: Camshaft alignment Reply #6 - 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.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Camshaft alignment Reply #7 - 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.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Camshaft alignment Reply #8 - 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.
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KenGLong

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Re: Camshaft alignment
Reply #9 - 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.

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Camshaft alignment Reply #10 - 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.
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