Howdy, I've got a 1972 Honda CB350F that I did a full rebuild on. When I turn it over all I get is an occasional backfire here and there from the residual fumes being blown through. I had a friend of mine who is a professional motorcycle tech look it over, check my valve clearances, point gap, and timing plate orientation. It's getting fuel, air and spark. So we've narrowed it down to either a compression issue or the possibility that I may have installed the camshaft 180 deg out of time. According to the clymer and a .pdf of the original service manual, it appears as though at T1.4, the camshaft should be installed with the lobes down at cylinder 4 and with the line across the sprocket parallel to the head.
Now then, page 58- fig.27 in the clymer manual depicts the sprocket bolt heads with dotted lines, which is consisitant in engineering drawings as being behind something- on the other side of the sprocket in this case. So I assumed the bike was being viewed in fig. 27 from the same side as the timing plate. Is this correct, or did I misinterpret the drawing?
