ok. i am rebulding a friends 250x, he thinks its a late 80's posably an 87 but not sure. i have rebuilt many honda dirt bikes but this is my first atv and i dont have any type of manual. my quistion is how do you line up the crank with the cam shaft sprocket for when you take the cam chain off?

on my crf250 its 2 hash marks on the cam sprocket and a notch on the crank you line up with line on the sight window.

thanks

David

 

I copied this from another forum for you.

Step 1. Take off the caps on the freewheel side. There should be a middle one and one up to the left side of the cover. Take them out.

Step 2. Take your valve cover off so you can see your cam.

Step 3. Put a socket wrench in the middle screw hole you took out in step 1. There should be a bolt in there and when you turn it, it turns your engine.

Step 4. Turn the wrench and look though the screw hole on the upper left corner. Keep turning it till you see three marks on the freewheel. On the threads of the hole you're looking though there is a slit in the threads. You want to line the middle mark of the the line that is on the thread of the screw hole you are looking though. It will be tricky to keep it there so get someone to help you hold the socket wrench. When you get the marks there that is Top Dead Center.

Step 5. Look at your cam sprocket. Look at the side that faces on the inside. There should be two marks on the opposite sides of each other. You know that the timing is correct when those two marks are even on the top of your engine, with the cam lobes facing down. If those two marks are not even with the top of the engine head that means your timing is off.

Step 6. If your timing is off you will need to loosen your timing chain tensinor (sp) so that you can move the timing chain off the cam sprocket and move the cam so those two marks are even with the engine head. Put the chain back on it. Now look to see if those marks as in step 4 are lined up. If they are tighten your tensioner for the cam chain. Check your chain to make sure that it isn't going to come off your cam sprocket or skip teeth.

 

thanks. thats exactly what i needed to know.