Yama
Jason
Hello my fellow 650 lovers. I hope someone can help me with my situation. I am in the middle of an engine rebuild on my 1975 xs650b and everything was going great until I installed the camchain. I was going to re-use my old chain since the engine was rebuilt about 15 yrs ago, not by me and before I owned it, but the vertical Mark on the cam sprocket and timing mark on the rotor don't line up. The vertical mark is about one tooth either direction off. So I figure chain stretch and order new chain from mikes. Install new chain and situation is improved but mark is still not as straight up as the manual shows. My question is, since it is only slightly forward from vertical should I leave it and hope when I tighten all nuts down the new gaskets and such compress enough to bring it to vertical. My first rebuild by the way, so please forgive me if I'm being overly cautious. I just want to make certain I do it right the first time. Thank you
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