I purchased my '89 FHLTCU this April, she came with a Screaming Eagle III which included an Andrews 27 cam. Well, to make a long story short, I am redoing both top and bottom ends but I have run into a possible problem. As I was taking things apart, I found several careless errors -- squashed gaskets, compression bolt torqued tighter than 600 ft lbs, screwdriver marks (only a few, but still!!) to pry the crankcase apart and silicone keeping it together-- just to name a few. To add to the mayhem, when I got to the camshaft--someone else removed it before I could mark it along with the pinion and breather gears.
This leads to my problem: The pinion gear has it factory made slash mark and someone (I guess the yielder of the screwdriver mentioned prior) made a red mark on the gear about 120 degrees away from the slash. Now, when the front piston is at TDC, neither the slash or the red mark are in the 12 o'clock position to line up with the cam. From all my research, I want the slash mark and the appropriate mark to line up on the cam HOWEVER, is it really necessary that the pinion gear be in there just so? I did try to remove the nut infront of the pinion gear--but I am SURE the same person who tightened the compression bolt got to this nut --it is quite tighter than the torque specs of 170 ft lbs. All my reasoning says the pinion gear shouldn't matter as long as the breather gear and camshaft are lined up -- am I right?
All help would be greatly appreciated!! I so want to get back on the road!
THANK YOU
This leads to my problem: The pinion gear has it factory made slash mark and someone (I guess the yielder of the screwdriver mentioned prior) made a red mark on the gear about 120 degrees away from the slash. Now, when the front piston is at TDC, neither the slash or the red mark are in the 12 o'clock position to line up with the cam. From all my research, I want the slash mark and the appropriate mark to line up on the cam HOWEVER, is it really necessary that the pinion gear be in there just so? I did try to remove the nut infront of the pinion gear--but I am SURE the same person who tightened the compression bolt got to this nut --it is quite tighter than the torque specs of 170 ft lbs. All my reasoning says the pinion gear shouldn't matter as long as the breather gear and camshaft are lined up -- am I right?
All help would be greatly appreciated!! I so want to get back on the road!
THANK YOU