So you're stumped, good.
Here's the answer from "Valve Adjust? many moons ago...
Savage_Rob wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06:Sitting on my canvas folding camp stool on the left/port side of the bike, I only turned clockwise.
Warning. "Warning Will Robinson"!!!
I hate to say it, but
DO NOT turn the engine clockwise from that position on the port side (yes, I was a sailor). In fact,
never turn the engine in a direction opposite the direction of operating rotation.
Rule of thumb...rotation direction on
all bike engines (except flat horizontal ones) is
always the same direction as the tire rotation. See the arrows on the tire side walls? Turn the engine that way only...it doesn't matter which side you're on.
Reason #1 - the engine turns counter-clockwise from the left side...
Reason #2 - that timing bolt on the rotor is left hand thread....that is a loosening direction.Reason #3 - turning that way is rotating the cam chain backwards which puts any cam chain slack in the wrong direction through the gears and the tensioner, and the valves aren't timed correctly (in reverse)...
Reason #4 - you are rotating the starter clutch in the wrong direction...which is turning the starter gears against the starter....the clutch is
engaged in that direction.
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