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Offline Changin Gears

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Re: Rollmaster Timing set question
« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2010 - 09:58:01 PM »
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Offline AMXguy

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Re: Rollmaster Timing set question
« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2010 - 10:34:05 PM »
Ok now I get it, I don't know why it took so long to sink in . thanks for all your help I'll give it a try and report back.
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Re: Rollmaster Timing set question
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2010 - 06:37:45 AM »
now try degreeing your cam again :ylsuper:

Offline AMXguy

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Re: Rollmaster Timing set question
« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2010 - 10:22:04 AM »
OK that was the problem, now the bosses are lined up and #1 is TDC . I'm sure I would have figured something was wrong when I went to set the valves but this saved a headache.

 I'm pretty mechanical even if the crank sprocket debacle indicates otherwise but the degreeing thing just looks like trouble to me, I better leave well enough alone.
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Re: Rollmaster Timing set question
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2010 - 05:28:14 PM »
Comon , you really really wouldnt feel good about your build by not knowing. Cause if you have any type of timing issue at all, you will always wonder and not be sure.  We can walk you through this, it is easy and quite simple just to check and see where you are at.  Do you have 2 dial indicators?  While the heads are off it is super easy. Here is a pic of my race engine I saved for just this purpose to show kinda what goes on.

a degree wheel a pointer and 2 indicators works well. And remember to do this on the intake lobe off the cam

Find top dead center on the piston. Use the center of the piston because it will rock. Install your degree wheel and ounce you have tdc, take like a clothes hanger wire and a bolt and put iwhere it ponts to tdc, then install a dial ind., on the intake lobe. Long stem works best. zero the dial on the top of the lobe, turn the engine and then write down when the lobe goes 20 thou over center.  Write that number down. Then you can even go 50 thou and write it down to. Then just keep rotating the engine untill you come 50 thou before tdc, write it down, then 20 thou, write it down. Im telling you at 20 and 50 so you can use one or the other or both in checking.  Add the 2 , 20 thou numbs, togeter and devide by 2, or /and add the 2 50 thou nums together and devide by 2.  Both will come up with the same number. like 106 , 108 , 110  what ever. check it over and over doing it all again and again. the more you do it, the easier it gets.