Replaced One-way starter clutch on V-Star. Cam timing marks shown in Yamaha Manual do not match actual marks on rotor. Bike runs rough & has valve train noise. (Not tappets.) Sounds like the spring loaded lower split gear is chattering. I have pulled it apart 3 times. Once setting timing by the "T" on the rotor. Once on the line BEFORE the "T" and once on the line AFTER the "T". All of the springs and dowel pins are there. The valve clearance is right. The rear cyl cam sproket is dead on crank after crank. The front looks off by half a tooth - but I didn't break the front gears or the right case and it ran perfect before the repair.
The cam chain has stretched a bit making it look like its half a tooth out, the tensioner takes up the slack but makes the cam timing slightly out.
You could have timed the crank 280 degrees out
It should be timed on the T mark for one cylinder & on the I mark (if there is one) for the other.
The marks before the T mark are for ignition timing (firing marks)
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