Install the gear onto the cam with the little o pointing to 12 o’clock. Now you are ready to install the cam chain onto the cam gear, and the gear onto the cam. Whether you are just now installing the cam or already have it installed, it will have the lobes pointing down at this point and the little dowel pin should be pointing to about 11 o’clock. If you don’t do this the piston tends to want to move back down in the cylinder. To make sure it stays there through the procedure, I always use my ½ ratchet on the end of the crank and put the handle resting against my work bench. This means if you remove the valve access caps on the head cover you can move the arms just a tiny bit. If you do have the cam installed then to make sure you are on the compression stroke of TDC you still want to have the T showing, but you also want both rocker arms to be loose. ![]() ![]() I usually remove the spark plug and look in the hole with a flashlight to verify the piston is at the top of its stroke. ![]() If you don’t have the cam installed yet the exhaust and compression stoke hasn’t been determined so just have the T on the flywheel showing through the viewing hole. The first step that I don’t even have pictured here is to get your piston to TDC. I see questions come up about this every so often so I figured since I was going to be doing it I would document the process. This procedure should apply to all 185 and 200 Honda trikes besides the 86-87 200x
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