Cam chains to short or something???

98 husaberg 400. New jug and rings replaced and did a deep clean on everything else. I stuck the new jug up next to the new jug to check if one was wider or not and there the same. All parts came from Germany. I can not seem to get the cam chain on as seen in the picture. I have to be missing something here because this chain came off the bike. Is there a way to add a link or is there someone that knows more that can let me know if I'm doing something wrong or if there's a trick to get it like putting the chain together first etcc. Please help and thank you. I wanna ride this thing. I love older bikes!!

husabutt said:

Is the cam chain tensioner installed?
Too much sealant on the cylinder base?
Did you use a cylinder base gasket where there was none originally?
Head gasket too thick?

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No the cam chain tensioner is out of the bike. I used 2 paper like gaskets that came with what I ordered. Originally there was like 3 metal type gaskets that looked glued together or something they were solid thin metal. I was thinking maybe the head gasket was to thick as well but it is what came with it, but it looks as if I need an entire link added. It don't look that thick? Thank you for helping because I don't know where to go from here. Parts are very hard to find in America.

jojo09 said:

Count the links. 78 are needed. And no cylinder base gasket 97-00.

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jojo09 said:

Count the links. 78 are needed. And no cylinder base gasket 97-00.

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I was just reading something about a 2000 500 not having a gasket on one of the splits. I believe you guys have just solved my issue because I have a gasket where the jug meets valve body and a gasket on the bottom split as well. If this is true and I should only have a gasket on 1 of those splits I am beyond happy right now. This is a 1998 husaberg 400. Which one of those splits does not get a gasket. Also, what kind of sealant should I use. Thank you guys so much man I am ready for the day now!!! Yes sir!!!

I was just reading something about a 2000 500 not having a gasket on one of the splits. I believe you guys have just solved my issue because I have a gasket where the jug meets valve body and a gasket on the bottom split as well. If this is true and I should only have a gasket on 1 of those splits I am beyond happy right now. This is a 1998 husaberg 400.. Which one of those splits does not get a gasket?? Also, what kind of sealant should I use. Thank you guys so much man I am ready for the day now!!! Yes sir!!!

husabutt said:

I am not exactly sure what you mean by "where the jug meets (valve body?) and a gasket on the bottom split". There should be no gasket where the base of the cylinder meets the crankcase, only sealant. Did it have a cylinder base gasket when you took it apart?
On my 1997 600 I use ThreeBond 1211. You can use it everywhere a sealant is needed except perhaps where the exhaust header pipe goes into the head. There you would want a high temp silicone sealant.

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Yes where the cylinder meets the crank case, I apologize I referred to it as a split lol. This has to be my problem I was just confused because it came with 2 gaskets so naturally I figured to use both of them. Literally looks like I'm a whole link off it's just hard to imagine that gasket throwing it off that much. I wasn't able to get to it today but tomorrow it will be the first thing I do as long as I'm able to find some sealant locally that will work. I have some black sealant I got from advanced Autoparts I gotta research what I can use. Thank you so much for this information