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❑ Checking valve guides
Position of valve spring
• The closely spaced spring coils -arrow- face the cylinder head.
Retaining frame for camshafts - tightening torque and sequence
Note
♦
The illustration shows the retaining frame for camshafts on
cylinder head (left-side).
♦
Renew the bolts tightened with specified tightening angle.
Caution
Risk of damage to retaining frame for camshafts.
♦ It is important to tighten the bolts securing the retaining
frame as described below.
– Tighten bolts in 4 stages in the sequence shown:
Stage
Bolts
Tightening torque/angle specification
1.
-1 … 28-
Screw in by hand until bolt heads
make contact with retaining frame
2.
-1 … 28-
Continue tightening 1 turn at a time in
several stages until retaining frame
makes full contact with cylinder head
and a torque of 8 Nm is reached
3.
-1 … 28-
8 Nm
4.
-1 … 28-
Turn 90° further
3.2
Measuring axial clearance of camshafts
Special tools and workshop equipment required
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