Service Manual for WP6 Diesel Engine
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Assembling:
For 6-cylinder engine, 14 M14-10.9 main bearing bolts are used to fix the bearings. As shown in
Fig 3-13, start with middle bearings, do the tightening work from middle to two ends evenly, follow
the procedures below: Firstly pre-tighten each bolt to 70Nm, and tighten the bolts for further
90°±4°.
Fig. 3-13 Main bearing bolts tightening order
Key point 2:
Assembling:
Install the thrust bearing cap on rear end of engine block, and the others are non-thrust bearing cap.
Take the cap two ends as locating basis when assembling; the main bearing bolts cannot be screwed
on if the cap is inversely placed.
3324 Steps to Assemble Engine Block Module
Assembling steps are contrary to disassembling ones.