Reply To: Valve clearance, camshaft, camshaft tensioner – a problem or a serious fault?
Marcel, I will check your steps as soon as I have the opportunity to go to my garage.
Overall, the motorbike was totally struggling to fire up after being serviced and standing dry for so long. Despite the fact that it could be heard that the carburettors were filling up, only after adding choke did it start but I didn’t keep it on choke only after it fired up did I turn off choke so as not to seize it just to give it a moment to start lubricating with oil.
There was smoke from the exhaust pipe the whole time the engine was running.
Worst of all (that I’m afraid of) I’ve got this timing set wrong…. I have read on the internet problems with adding gas, that it could be a misaligned timing….
How exactly do I determine the top dead center of the piston on the front cylinder as I have a stripped timing? Maybe I have actually misaligned it? Because if I couldn’t get the magneto off then I’m sure my engine was spinned and not set correctly.