Replaced Valve Cams, now engine wont turn.

[ff255away]

I was using this guide to replace my valve shims, as the motion pro tool did diddly squat for me.

I lifted the cams, replaced the shims, replaced the cams and noticed that they weren't quite right, so after some fiddling I got the dots lined up with the arrows and started putting all of the nuts and washers and bolts back on.

Went to rotate the gear, and about halfway around it completely jams and I feel a click.

The chain tensioner wasn't installed, so I did that and it still doesn't turn. I looked up and notice that the cam gears are now unaligned, which is stressing me out further.

Here are pictures, feel free to ask for more. http://imgur.com/a/wAgkC

Could one of you tell me how bad I screwed up?

[motoman]

I was using this guide to replace my valve shims, as the motion pro tool did diddly squat for me.

I lifted the cams, replaced the shims, replaced the cams and noticed that they weren't quite right, so after some fiddling I got the dots lined up with the arrows and started putting all of the nuts and washers and bolts back on.

Went to rotate the gear, and about halfway around it completely jams and I feel a click.

The chain tensioner wasn't installed, so I did that and it still doesn't turn. I looked up and notice that the cam gears are now unaligned, which is stressing me out further.

Here are pictures, feel free to ask for more. http://imgur.com/a/wAgkC

Could one of you tell me how bad I screwed up?

...........forgetting to install chain tensioner WAS and IS your demise. Even a slow by-hand rotation likely bent at least one valve, from what I've seen on here by others creating a similar issue in the past.

[ff255away]

...........forgetting to install chain tensioner WAS and IS your demise. Even a slow by-hand rotation likely bent at least one valve, from what I've seen on here by others creating a similar issue in the past.

Okay, so the center piece was in, but the piece in the front wasn't. I'm really hoping that I'm having a different problem. How would I go about fixing this?

::EDIT:: that was really vague. The stand that sits between the two gears up top was in its place. The tensioner by the exhaust was definitely sitting on the table next to me while I was manually turning the engine.

[trbig]

You missed the part about "Do not, under any circumstances, rotate your engine without the cam chain tensioner installed or manually pushing on the adjuster bar."

Pretty good chance that you bent valves, depending on how far you rotated it, but only way to tell now is to loosen the cams back up, take that center piece out, line the dots back up and the timing mark on the "T", re-install the tensioner (Or push on it with a finger inside the hole while spinning the crank clockwise) and check your valve clearances. If you find one (Or more) with a huge gap, then you've found the bent one(s). Hopefully you'll luck out.

The clicking you heard was more than likely the crank gear jumping teeth on the timing chain. That center slider between the cams isn't anything needed for timing and such. Just make sure to stick it back in there before buttoning things up.

[ff255away]

Thank you, trbig. I'll go back out and do that.

[IanDMacDonald]

I'm praying for you buddy. Hopefully you did not really turn your wrench hard when you felt things bunching up. I'm not sure I belt valves till I ran my bike.

[bikerphil]

the motion pro tool did diddly squat for me

That's a shame, if you got it to work this probably would have never happened.