I recently purchased the new cam chain tensioner you recommended how ever I have a question; there is a arrow on the tensioner does this point up or down?
You want to install the tensioner with the arrow as close to “UP’ as you can make it. Thinking of the gas tank being North and the ground being South, the arrow will point to the northeast position when installed. This is most important!! When you put the ZX-11 tensioner in, count the number of clicks the plunger went down before it stopped. The Cam Chain rides over a nylon idler gear on the back side and these gears tend to disintegrate with age. You can pull the valve cover and look at the gear, (good time to adjust the valves) or another way to tell is to pull the tensioner back out if you’ve already installed it, depress the plunger, reinstall it and slip a small allen wrench in the hole and depress the plunger slowly and count the number clicks till it stops. It should click 19 – 20 times total if you extend it while it’s out of the bike. If you put it in and it goes more than about 10 to 12 clicks and there’s 19 total clicks it could go, then your gear or the tensioner sliders ar
