No Idea

Well I got the valve pads in place. But I cant figure out the dam cam.
I can't figure out the manual to properly line it up so its in time with the other one.

 

take the bolts out of the cam sprockets but keep the sprockets on the "ledge" where they will go.
spin the crank to tdc, (sprockets spin but not cams.)
tensioner in and ready to go
spin the cams to lineup the cam marks. (crank and chain don't move)
drop the sprockets one at a time to line up the holes, if they don't line up make them them the same distance the same way and move the crank to make them line up
put the bolts in loose
rotate the engine forward gently one rev of the cams and check all the marks again
you might have to jump the chain one tooth either way and the marks might not be perfect
the adjustment will be one tooth either way, it will be close or obviously wrong

 

that's not right, when the cams and crank are lined up you have to drop the sprockets off the ledge one at a time and jump the chain till the holes line up.
they won't be perfect but make them the same way, the same distance, then move the crank to line them up

 

I just don't get it. Time to hire a mechanic.

 

So got the cam in but at tdc the ex and in marks don't line up with cams. Looks like the ex might be off one tooth and the intake 2 teeth.
Can I just unbolt the sprockets and turn the cams in place and jump the sprokets on the chain????.

 

I don't have a stationary pointer. Just the bolt hole where one would be.

 

You don't need to unbolt the sprockets. You need to move the cams by lifting the slack chain off of the sprockets. You do still have the cam chain tensioner removed, and the front cam chain guide out, correct?

Keep in mind that the minimum adjustment you can make is one-tooth. As the cam chain wears the indexing marks will not line up perfectly, and that is normal. Being a whole tooth (or more) off is correctable, but being less than a tooth off is not (and correcting that is not necessary since the valve timing will still be in the allowable range).

 

Just when I put it to tdc the lobs do not evenly point away from each other. And when I rotate it so the timing marks are line up with cam and sprockets its alittle ways off the tdc mark.

 

Crapp thing is I just gave a "mechanic" 75 bucks he tell me to put it together and start it and see if she works.
Think is it rolls over good. But not everything lines up.

 

post pics. Like I've said, the marks aren't going to line up perfectly.

 

The lobes are not the reference point. The timing marks are. The cam lobes will all be in different positions, by design.

 

Ex is on with tdc. Think ill be fine to move intake on tooth

 

Just to be sure you are using the upper pickup coil as the indicator for TDC as you have the 1986 X?

Noted in this post:

http://www.xjbikes.com/forums/threads/maxim-x-shim-check.68116/#post-468291

 

Got it guys. Had to move one tooth on intake sprocket. Everything lineing up . maybe a fraction off. But barley

 

And that's as good as it needs to be, and as good as it will get unless you put in a new cam chain (and even then the marks won't necessarally be perfectly aligned).

 

Thank you everyone that helped. I really appreciate it.