I would like to know too. Also I'm not sure how you degreed the cam without a wheel but that should be a must, get the largest diameter you can...
Yeah, I must have been inhaling too much brake cleaner fumes.
I spent all last night doing this again with the free degree wheel template I found here in the forums. Even with the degree wheel I was having trouble getting repeatable readings within +/- 1 degree. I'm going to find a larger degree wheel. Anyone know how large the APE degree wheel is? I couldn't find the diameter listed on their site.
I don't have a piston stop, but since I had the head off I just used my dial indicator to fine TDC and set the degree wheel. This seemed pretty accurate, with the only risk of jarring something on head assembly.
Using the stock set-up again (stock cam sprocket), with the degree wheel. I measured the intake opening as being 4-4.5 degrees after TDC (0.04" lift with 0.002" lash, measured off valve retainer). This seems wrong, as I now realized spec should be 0 degrees TDC. I'm thinking I should have done this with no lash.
Any thoughts or suggestions?I then did this again with the adjustable sprocket. I ended up setting the intake valve to be at 0.04" lift (again with 0.002" lash) with 3 degrees Before TDC. (It was around midnight at this point and I was thinking that's about 7-8 degrees advanced from the stock... but now that I think more about this I should have tried setting this to 8 degrees before TDC.) I used clay again, but this time most of the clay pieces got moved around while I was trying to dial in the cam. I was able to get one good intake clearance measurement: 1.9mm (which seems good).
BTW, I tried to "gingerly" pry the valve down but I just couldn't get myself to do it. It felt like I was doing bad things to the rocker assembly.
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=39029.0Does anyone have a picture on how this is properly done?I was thinking I could also just replace the valve springs with much a weaker spring (from the local hardware store)... Any thoughts on how well this would work?
I also found this post from HondaMan:
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=115270.msg1300521#msg1300521I'm using a new cam chain (HD) but not a new front cam slipper. I think I'll try this again with a new slipper, and a larger degree wheel.