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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
So I followed the guide in the video I posted on my first page of my build. The guy made a thorough video with part numbers and torque specs, but he didn’t mention anything like you are mentioning. Hopefully I didn’t mess anything up. Basically when putting on the gear it is loose and moves, and then it twists to the right I think and locks. I just did that and torqued it down before installing the belt. Did I need to loosen the gear or something?
My gear is working, but for a second it seemed like it got stuck when my tuner and I were doing remote tuning, but then it opened. Hopefully it isn’t damaged or anything. Hopefully nothing is off timing wise, even though everything was lined up after.
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Yeah, if you can turn the gear at all then it is unlocked and you don't need to do what I was talking about. It sounds like yours was unlocked, you installed it onto the cam, locked it, then torqued it?
The correct procedure is to leave the gear unlocked until you torque the gear down to the cam and then you can turn it to lock it and install the cam chain.
They seem pretty simple internally and you can probably swap the center section and pin assembly to a non-50* gear if you damaged the pin or pin hole.
edit: Ran out and took apart my stock TSX gear.
Locked position:
UNLocked position:
Cover removed:
Note: plastic piece may stick to the cover on disassembly
Pin, pin spring, and plastic piece removed. Center section rotated to locked position, note the hole in the back cover that the pin drops into:
Center section rotated to unlocked position, note that the pin can't drop into a hole:
