Hey there - thinking of you and sweating for you as events unfold. Keep in there mate!

We'll all look forward to the photos and your "HOW TO's" afterwards ..... including all the "WHAT NOT TO DO" - Let us learn from your experience. Keep that camera on the go.......

 

wow i just learned something i woulda tore the engine down to put a cam chain in had no idea you could just split it

 

Think of it like a drive chain, but it comes pre-assembled. You have to remove a link, hook it up to the old chain, run it through, unhook, then use a new master link to combine the chain. Much easier than dropping the engine, removing the cams, drop the crank (and everything attached to it).

 

yea sounds alot easier i have the origanal motoe for mine in boxes rite now it was blown wen i got it so i tore it down and im thinking of rebuilding it but performance parts are hard to find

 

Ok I've got the new tools in, and put everything in place, but I'll be damned if I can tell if I've peened over the ends enough. Hell, I've destroyed 2 cam chain rivet tools (out of the 3 that I ordered) already (plus another masterlink because I tightened it too much). Does anybody know of a tool that does solid steel (Motion Pro didn't think this part through)??

 

Ok, so for those of you that have done this job before I've got a question. The cams are in place, the holders tightened down, the tensioner is fully relaxed (most slack allowed). The exhaust cam sprocket is on with the chain going over it, but I can't get the intake cam sprocket to get into position. It's like I need one more link. Anybody deal with this before?

 

So yeah, I just counted my old chain....152, not the 150 that I ordered.....

 

I bet you said something like F^*% S*^ OF A B!"(£!!!!!

 

Yeah, I was going to use some of the old links to make it fit. So I called my dealer to order me some more links, and tried again the next morning (this time with the tensioner unbolted) and it pretty much dropped in.

Go figure. Now I'm having fun trying to adjust the exhaust valves, 3 master links on their way for no reason, and still trying to find a way to stake the ends of the master link (once I find it again).

Does anybody have any opinion if http://www.z1enterprises.com/detail.aspx?ID=1693 this wold work? Everything I've tried so far has bent or broken.