For more info here's an excerpt from the Townsend site:
Now time to remove the timing chain. Set the engine on #1 cylinder by aligning the timing mark on the flywheel with the line on the black plastic clutch/tranny cover at 0 degrees. Look at the cams, they have a pointer cast into their first bearing caps and a mark on the raised edge of the cam where it meets the gear. The mark should align pretty close to the pointer on the cam bearing, but it can be off a bit. Instead of using these marks to set the engine in time, we use the marks on the cam gears/sprockets. When correctly aligned, they are perpendicular to the head, at 12 o'clock. Using these marks to time the cams is less error prone than using the marks on the cams themselves. You can use the starter to turn the engine over and get close to the timing marks. You can rig yourself a switch to do this by going straight to the battery positive terminal with one wire and to the small wire on the starter with another. By briefly touching the wires, the engine will turn over. I use a flat screw driver on the teeth of the flywheel to do the final positioning of the timing marks. Do not use the cams to turn the engine, you can break them or the chain doing so. Once you have all three marks aligned, the crank with its flywheel mark, and the cams with their gear marks, you can remove the timing chain..."

As for jacking the engine. Remove the skip plate (4 bolts) and use a bit of wood or something between the tranny and jack.

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