What Have You Done To Your Tdm Today?

[bjorge]

 

I slowly rotated mine the opposite way for a quarter turn and it tensioned the chain spot on.

 

Using plastic strips is prolly ok if you don't intend removing the camshaft sprockets.  Otherwise, you'll find you need to rotate the cam & sprocks to get access to the sprock bolts and it's not possible if it's all stripped up.  Might also be a pain if you intend removing the camshafts as there's nowhere for them to go.

 

I was removing the sprockets, the whole point is getting it right back without loosing inlet sprocket position in the process of sprocket/chain reassembly. The important point is when you insert sprocket bolts - then you already have aligned sprocket and chain and don't need an extra hand to handle both chain and both sprockets simultaneously. Just align sprockets with chain when they are loose and strip them to chain, then rotate cam shafts slightly to align sprocket bolt holes.

I can't really se an as simple solution that would remove the need of an extra hand.

 

It might even be an idea to do this before removing sprocket bolts, if so you would need to remove "opposite side" sprocet bolts first. Which, I believe, is not a bad idea anyway.