I am putting my Warrior back together after replacing the cam,valves,springs, and piston. I bought the cam from Alba and when I put my lower end on TDC no matter what I do my TDC mark on my head is off. It is off just a little and if I move my cam sproket one tooth over the sprocket mark goes to the exact same place on the other side of the head mark. I am at a lost and I have taken apart my lower end and my cam chain is on the lower sprocket perfect. So, does anybody have any experience on this?

 

I just installed the same came and there is nothing you can do to get it to line up without degreeing your cam sprocket. They dont suggest that you cut a slot in your stock sprocket because they are weak but they are probably just trying to sell their sprocket. I called Megacycle and bought their degreeing sprocket ($65 i think) just to be safe. You can run it with the stock setting and it wont hurt anything but I'm not sure which side is the best. With a dial indecator on the stock marks I got 102.75 degrees lobe center and the correct setting is 106 degrees. To get the most out of the cam you will need to degree it in,

 

Hey I wanted to tell you thanks a lot. I went to Megas site and sure enough they tell you that you have to get that sprocket with that cam, so I am going to go ahead and order it. I just don't understand why Alba did not tell me I was going to need it. Thanks again.