No silver links on timing chain???

[Muzzy]

yea i dont see the silver links on my timing chain to line it up. jus the gold one. (im following in the S14 FSM) so does this only apply to my S13 SR???

[Andrew Bohan]

see if you can find out how many link apart the marked links should be, then mark em.

[Muzzy]

u mean like how many links between the sliver and good link?

[Andrew Bohan]

i'm not sure how SR's are, but for KA my lower chain has 2 silver links and my upper chain has 3 silver links, and between each silver link is a certain number of non-silver links. if you can just find out how far apart the silver links are supposed to be, you're good to go.
it doens't matter which links you use, only how far apart they are so the sprockets sync up correctly.

[Muzzy]

lol whoa i dont remeber that on my KA

[Muzzy]

could it be that my links are jus varnished i need to look more carefully?? possibly scrape some of them??

[Andrew Bohan]

possibly
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[Ghettokracker71]

Silver and gold have I known,but such as I have,give I thee...

[Muzzy]

:wtf:+:confused:

[ryan hagen]

i ve ripped apart 4 ka's and all were differnt, 1-silver, 1-black,1-light goldwith paint, and one gold, these colored marks wer eont he lower, the uppers 3- were gold, and 1 was light gold and paint...........

[Andrew Bohan]

point being that they were all marked somehow

[Muzzy]

...and how does this help me....all i see on my chain is one gold link...and thas it

[Kid Zelda]

What you should have done is mark the links before you took it apart...

Set the motor at Top dead center, the key way on the sprocket should be at 12 o'clock

Line the gold mark with the matching mark on the crank sprocket/gear ( whatever you want to call it)


NOW, while looking at the motor ( you are facing it.. working on it)

to the left of the chain ( intake cam side) count 56 roller links ( the silver rollers) from the gold, that should be one matching mark for the intake cam gear.

Do the same thing for the other side counting 48 roller links.

There should be 20 roller links between those two matching marks.
install oil cover, crank pulley, etc etc etc

[Muzzy]

lol i didn take my motor apart...so...yea
but either way i can still use that counting method i suppose.
thanks mang

(yea "SPL peanut butter mount" rules (jus made some) fuggin awesome)

[Andrew Bohan]

see if you can find out how many links apart the marked links should be, then mark em.

yeah that was some good advice i had.

thanks kid zelda for having so many cars you know how many links there should be.

[tastyratz]

my dohc ka didnt have any links on the upper chain when i changed the head i just did a side by side with another motor when i put it back together...

[Kid Zelda]

lol i didn take my motor apart...so...yea
but either way i can still use that counting method i suppose.
thanks mang

(yea "SPL peanut butter mount" rules (jus made some) fuggin awesome)
You have not taken it apart yet |?! ??

Damn, you shouldn't be stressing it, just set it at top dead center, and mark the chain were it meets with the mating mark on the cam gear ... E A S Y E MOTHAFUCKA .. I doubt you had taken it apart already.

oh well, good luck