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Conflicting Clymer instruction..how many pins?

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So I'm strapping the old beast back together (just in time for a 20 degree cold snap) and I've confused myself timing the cams back up. The Clymer states:

"there should be 20 pins between the timing marks on the exhaust and intake cams".

I interperet that instruction to have 20 pins between the two marks, but not including. So if you were to count pins starting at one of the marks, you would have 22 pins from one to the other.

The diagram, however, shows 20 pins from mark to mark, and that would be 18 between.

Anyone have any idea what I'm asking here? Am I overthinking it? Why don't I mark timing when I take everything apart?
 
The 1 st pin is directly over the 1st mark and the 20th pin is directly over the 2nd mark. Not counting the marks, there will be 18 pins between them.

Earl


qslim said:
So I'm strapping the old beast back together (just in time for a 20 degree cold snap) and I've confused myself timing the cams back up. The Clymer states:

"there should be 20 pins between the timing marks on the exhaust and intake cams".

I interperet that instruction to have 20 pins between the two marks, but not including. So if you were to count pins starting at one of the marks, you would have 22 pins from one to the other.

The diagram, however, shows 20 pins from mark to mark, and that would be 18 between.

Anyone have any idea what I'm asking here? Am I overthinking it? Why don't I mark timing when I take everything apart?
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qslim said:
So I'm strapping the old beast back together (just in time for a 20 degree cold snap) and I've confused myself timing the cams back up. The Clymer states:

"there should be 20 pins between the timing marks on the exhaust and intake cams".

I interperet that instruction to have 20 pins between the two marks, but not including. So if you were to count pins starting at one of the marks, you would have 22 pins from one to the other.

The diagram, however, shows 20 pins from mark to mark, and that would be 18 between.

Anyone have any idea what I'm asking here? Am I overthinking it? Why don't I mark timing when I take everything apart?
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I have both the Clymer, and the factory Suzuki manual. That Clymer manuall SUCKS. My info will be in reguards to an 1100 right from the factory manual. Looking at the cam sprockets from the right side of the engine on the exhaust cam you will see a stamped arrow with a "2" next to it. Directly above that arrow is pin #1. On the intake cam is the same arrow with a "3" next to it , and that arrow lines up with pin #20 . So it's 18 pins between the 2 arrows. This info is assuming you have the engine lined up with the "T" looking through the signal generator hole .
 
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