Cam Timing TSCC 750AN

[Guest]

I may be overthinking this but i just finished replacing the leaking head gasket on my 81 GS750L.
I installed the cams per the manual I downloaded from basscliffs site and thought it was strange that cylinder 4 was at TDC compression and not cylinder 1.
Just noticed that when I was setting valve clearance and had to rotate crank one revolution to get Cylinder 1 at TDC compression.
Thoughts?

[hillsy]

If you can rotate the crank and valves don't hit pistons then you've pretty much got it right.

[81GS750L]

Im quite confident i got it right just seemed weird that cylinder 1 wasnt at TDC compression. Dont see how i could have gotten it 180 out since the crank will either be tdc 1-4 or tdc 2-3. If i turn the crank one revolution to get to tdc compression cylinder 1 the cam marks are off, rotate again to achieve tdc compression on cylinder 4 and the cam marks are perfect.

[hillsy]

The cams move at half the speed of the crank so if you rotate it another 360 then the cams will line up with #1.