I had to remove my clutch basket in order to fix the kick start ratchet return.
After putting the basket back in, and rolling the motor over a few times with the kick start, I attempted to set the engine to TDC. This is when I noticed that my alignment point on the idle gear and pinion gear do not align with one another (not sure if one of my Grunions spun the the gear while it was open).
I removed the basket again and aligned the three marks. I think I might not be on the compression stroke since I can rotate the crank by hand with the sparky still installed. I think I might be in the overlap area on the cam.
Before I light this sucker off, I wanted to know a fail safe way of checking that my cam/crank timing are correct as to not smack my valves on the piston (I've done this before on a DRZ and bent all the valves and broke 3 guides.
Seeing how replacement parts are little harder to find for this, I would like to avoid another "trophy". I took the smashed bits from the DRZ and welded together a trophy that sits on my wall as a constant reminder.
Thanks in advance gents.
After putting the basket back in, and rolling the motor over a few times with the kick start, I attempted to set the engine to TDC. This is when I noticed that my alignment point on the idle gear and pinion gear do not align with one another (not sure if one of my Grunions spun the the gear while it was open).
I removed the basket again and aligned the three marks. I think I might not be on the compression stroke since I can rotate the crank by hand with the sparky still installed. I think I might be in the overlap area on the cam.
Before I light this sucker off, I wanted to know a fail safe way of checking that my cam/crank timing are correct as to not smack my valves on the piston (I've done this before on a DRZ and bent all the valves and broke 3 guides.
Seeing how replacement parts are little harder to find for this, I would like to avoid another "trophy". I took the smashed bits from the DRZ and welded together a trophy that sits on my wall as a constant reminder.
Thanks in advance gents.
