Gday Guys.
As you may remember, a few weeks ago I replaced one of the valve stem seals on my XT600 as it had been blowing smoke on startup. As a few of you predicted, this didn't fix the problem....
I'm now about to strip the bike down, with the aid of a factory service manual that i have, but i have one question:
Obviously when i go to replace the cam and hook up the cam chain i will need to see the mark on the crankshaft cam sprocket to make sure that it lines up with the pointer on the crankcase. All of the diagrams in the manual show this with the left hand side cover and the magneto removed. I want to try and avoid removing this cover and the magneto if i can help it, so is there a way that i can see when these marks line up without disassembling the whole left hand side of the motor? Are the marks viewable if you look down the cam chain hole in the left hand side of the head and barrel? Obviously i don't want to get this wrong....
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Sometimes the bike starts as clean as a whistle, other times it blows enough smoke to completely smoke out my driveway. It's very tempremental.
Hopefully we find something seriously wrong once we remove the head. One fella that i know through work once had a KLX650 that blew smoke like my bike is doing after having a full rebuild. After stripping the motor for a second time he found that one of the valve guides had a hairline crack in it. Perhaps this is what has happened to my XT??? I guess i will find out when it's in pieces!
Cheers, Dan.