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Old 10-07-2010, 06:09 PM   #5
Bladecutter
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dirkdiggler
My question:

My intake cam notch(one next to air oil separator thing) is pointed too the right but its not perfectly horizontal like to ones in the pics you provided. Mine is sorta at a angle pointed upwards a little. Pic attached of how mine is situated with all other things lined up. Red arrow shows the angle.

Is this normal??
To answer the question as simply as possible, the answer is:

NO!!

If you re-read the write up, you will notice that the most important thing to tell that the timing is correct is to line up that one single notch so that it is perfectly pointing to the right, and then see if the cam-notches are parallel to the engine cases.

That notch is the important one, and you will adjust the other notches to line up with regards to it. When it is pointing perfectly to the right, if everything is fine, then the notches on the cams are lines up. If everything isn't set right, then the two cam notches are not lined up.

Your description means that your cams are out of time.
You need to align them, and honestly, it sounds really, really easy.

BC.
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