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desperate help wanted - my bikes eaten something!

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Well this is my first post and if i wasn't so fed up with what i've done i'd think it funny! I've just gone to adjust the tappets on my GS850 and as a precaution rapped a rag around the top of the cradle above the exposed cam chain. Well i became so absorbed in the tappet adjustment - (i was turning the engine over via the 19mm bolt beneath the points cover) I didn't see the rag dissapearing into the chain and round the jockey wheel!

The rag is well and truely stuck around the wheel! I'm not the most technical person in the world and don't want to do a strip down. The chain is well under tension. The jockey has four bolts hodling it down. Can i simply undo those and remove it? Is there any easy way out of this? Any advice is welcome.

QM
 
Turn the motor in the opposite direction while pulling on the rag
 
Guy's it's too late to turn it the other way (i was a little worried about that in case it jumped a sprocket? A couple of things on the tensioner front - in the link talking about taking it off it mentions putting it at TDC. Obviously i can't do that? If i take it off (the tensioner) do i then unbolt the the jockey wheel in situ remove rag and then bolt back on?
QM
 
Panic over - i've turned the motor both directions and pulled on the rag with pliers - it's out hurrraaah (well i think it is albeit in two pieces!). Thanks for the advice guys - no more precautions in future!!!
 
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She'll be fine... I had chunks of a blown piston floating around in my oil pan, on the 550.
Rode it home on 3 cylinders for over 30 miles, lol.
 
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