Airhead Timing Chain... - Page 3

Xcuvator · 03-03-2011, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by mymindsok

I've been cutting my old timing chains out using bolt/chain cutters for years.

I got to the point where I could swap a /6 chain at night on the back patio, using a trouble light.

Once you've done it two or three times, timing chains are a snap. Not fun, but you know what I mean!

Come on Ken, out on the patio in the dark is good, but wouldn't it be more memorible if you did it with one hand tied behind your back, or blindfolded?

Lornce · 03-03-2011, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Xcuvator

Come on Ken, out on the patio in the dark is good, but wouldn't it be more memorible if you did it with one hand tied behind your back, or blindfolded?

While it's raining.

r2adv · 03-03-2011, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by brentde3

I want to build a table like that! Any info?

I'll be glad to shoot some images of the table but I call this version 1.0. Once I built it I discovered what I would change.

Hawk Medicine · 03-03-2011, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Lornce

While it's raining.

Well, once I got really good at swappin em, I'd stop in a parking lot on the way to elementary school, borrow a hack saw and a pair of pliers from the 5+10 and install a new chain right damn there. Took about five minutes and I never even got my hands dirty.

I liked changin em chains so much that when I was in High School, sometimes I'd carry a spare chain with me and swap one out just for shits and giggles! Then, one day I met this kinda cute house wife out ridin her old mans /5 (The one with the big jugs.) and she said her chain was rattlin and asked me if I'd lube her chain up for her. Her hubby weren't home and didnt seem to like lubin that much anyway, so I fallered her to her house and....

Never mind.

Bigger Al · 03-03-2011, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by mymindsok

Well, once I got really good at swappin em, I'd stop in a parking lot on the way to elementary school, borrow a hack saw and a pair of pliers from the 5+10 and install a new chain right damn there. Took about five minutes and I never even got my hands dirty.

I liked changin em chains so much that when I was in High School, sometimes I'd carry a spare chain with me and swap one out just for shits and giggles! Then, one day I met this kinda cute house wife out ridin her old mans /5 (The one with the big jugs.) and she said her chain was rattlin and asked me if I'd lube her chain up for her. Her hubby weren't home and didnt seem to like lubin that much anyway, so I fallered her to her house and....

Never mind.

Didja get her circlips seated properly?

r2adv · 03-05-2011, 03:04 PM

When you installed a duplex chain was the master link this close to the engine block?

Renner · 03-05-2011, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by r2adv

When you installed a duplex chain was the master link this close to the engine block?

don't forget that center link

bmwrench · 03-05-2011, 04:41 PM

Where did that chain come from? I've never seen one with split rollers, and would think hard before using one.

jtwind · 03-05-2011, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by bmwrench

Where did that chain come from? I've never seen one with split rollers, and would think hard before using one.

The rollers aren't split, that's stamping marks or whatever from manufactoring. It's the Iwis chain that you buy from dealers etc.

Rob Farmer · 03-05-2011, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by r2adv

When you installed a duplex chain was the master link this close to the engine block?

The link needs to come in from the opposite side of the chain.

jtwind · 03-06-2011, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Farmer

The link needs to come in from the opposite side of the chain.

I agree that would fix any possible clearance issues. BUT there is no way to do that! The masterlink is too long and the chain won't give enough to to get it behind the chain and in. No recess is deep enough. Just doesn't work! From behind works fine on the single row chain but not on the duplex.

Xcuvator · 03-06-2011, 07:43 AM

The pins in the spare JWIS master link I have measure .963".

jtwind · 03-06-2011, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Xcuvator

The pins in the spare JWIS master link I have measure .963".

That's interesting. I took a clip out of a /6 motor on my bench it's the fishtail type and it measures .941" I also measured a new two clip link out of a Iwis chain on the shelf and it measures .973. So there is some varience. A small amount may be our measuring and calipers though.

Rob Farmer · 03-06-2011, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by jtwind

I agree that would fix any possible clearance issues. BUT there is no way to do that! The masterlink is too long and the chain won't give enough to to get it behind the chain and in. No recess is deep enough. Just doesn't work! From behind works fine on the single row chain but not on the duplex.

That's exactly what I was trying to say in the earlier posts. The only option is to pull the engine sprocket and cam.

That camchain from Motobins is exactly the same as the one supplied by BMW.

r2adv · 03-06-2011, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Farmer

The only option is to pull the engine sprocket and cam.

I'm gettin nervous - that's my /6.

03-05-2011, 03:04 PM	#36
r2adv Studly Adventurer Joined: Jul 2006 Location: Near Harleyville, Wisconsin Oddometer: 526	Close fit When you installed a duplex chain was the master link this close to the engine block? __________________ Horizontally opposed to a vertical twin world R12GSA, R100 GSPD, R80G/S, R75/5, R90S

03-06-2011, 07:43 AM	#42
Xcuvator Justa Venturer Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Skoals Or Oddometer: 1,245	The pins in the spare JWIS master link I have measure .963". __________________ ___________________________________________ So much riding-so little time

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03-05-2011, 04:41 PM	#38
bmwrench Beastly Adventurer Joined: Nov 2006 Oddometer: 1,465	Where did that chain come from? I've never seen one with split rollers, and would think hard before using one.