Boxer engines' maintenance (page 2 of 2)
- Make
- Alfa Romeo
- Model
- 145/146 Factory Service Manual
- Year
- 1994–1999
- Section
- Maintenance
Technical data and maintenanceBoxer engines' maintenance · page 2 of 2
- Remove the right timing belt firstly from the camshaft pulley and then from the crankshaft pulley. - Repeat the above procedure to remove the left-hand belt.
- Turn the camshaft so that the tooth and the two adjacent milling marks on the timing pulley can be seen through the special hole on the rear cover.
- Turn the crankshaft until the notch "T" on the flywheel is aligned with the fixed reference.
- Fit the left-hand timing belt.
WARNING:
The belt should be keyed with the belt drive section opposed to the tensioned tensioners.
- Slacken the nut fastening the belt tensioner so that it can exert the pressure impressed by the spring on the belt, then tighten the nut.
- Turn the right camshaft until the tooth and the two adjacent marks milled on the timing pulley can be seen through the special hole on the rear cover.
- Turn the crankshaft to take the piston in cylinder no.
1 to the T.D.C. in the bursting stroke.
- Fit the right-hand timing belt.
- Slacken the nut fastening the belt tensioner so that it can exert the pressure impressed by the spring on the belt, then tighten the nut.
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