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Old 04-16-2011, 12:22 PM
birkhoff birkhoff is offline
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Originally Posted by leathermang View Post
Whunter,
Thanks for bringing this one up...
I have been preaching that the FSM says that the notch on the camshaft IS ONLY FOR When you are building the engine.. so you are in the right quadrant or something...
not for checking the chain elongation later...because it is not accurate... EASY and FAST.. yes.. BUT JUNK OUTPUT from the "TEST"....
Of course no method that depends on valve timing, no matter how accurately measured, is going to measure actual chain stretch unless you are sure there is not an offset key fitted. For that you need to pull off the cam gear and take a look!
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