VALUES AND SETTINGS
Procedure for tensioning the timing belt
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F4P engine
Tighten the new bolt of the inlet camshaft dephaser to
a torque of 10 daNm.
Tighten the exhaust camshaft pulley nut to a torque of
3 daNm. then turn through an angle of 86° ± 16°.
Remove tool Mot. 1496 for setting the camshafts, tool
Mot. 1509 for locking the camshaft pulleys and tool
Mot. 1054, the Top Dead Centre pin.
Checking the timing and the tension
Checking the tension:
Rotate the crankshaft twice in a clockwise direction
(timing end) and before the end of the second turn (in
other words, before the marks made previously are
aligned), insert the crankshaft Top Dead Centre pin
(so as to be between the balancing hole and the
pinning hole) then move the timing to its setting point.
Before pinning
Pinned crankshaft
Remove the Top Dead Centre pin.
Check that the tension wheel marks are correctly
aligned, otherwise repeat the tensioning procedure.
Slacken the tension wheel nut by a maximum of one
turn, holding it with a 6 mm Allen key.
Align the tension wheel marks and tighten the nut
finally to a torque of 2.8 daNm.
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