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Unread 06-10-2007, 11:00 AM
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Now the cylinder is freed up once you remove the top acorn and regular nuts from the top of the rods. That's the easy part. Now you need to remove the master link from the timing chain... not so easy if the cylinder is frozen up!!! If this is the case (as it is mine) then you have some work to do since you have to actually move the crank (frozen pistons and all) in order to get the chain moved to the point at which you can get to the master link in the chain. I was lucky enough that the master link was close enough. You can see it at the very bottom barely...



So if you take off the timing sprocket cover and don't see a masterlink on your chain then take the bolts out of the sprocket and wiggle the chain off in order to pull the head up just like this.
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