300TD (123.193) L5-3.0L DSL Turbo (617.952) (1984)
Installation
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Provide camshaft bearings, camshaft bearing journals and cams with engine oil.
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Slip camshaft from the rear into camshaft bearings.
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Mount camshaft with camshaft bearings and oil pipe.
Pay attention to dowel pins.
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Tighten camshaft bearing bolts (cylinder head bolts) from inside out as specified.
On engines with hex. socket cylinder head bolts, slightly loosen the remaining 14 cylinder head bolts also from inside out individually and tighten
to 100 Nm.
Tighten M 8 nuts to 25 Nm.
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Rotate camshaft manually to check for easy operation.
If camshaft is hard to rotate, proceed as follows:
Loosen camshaft bearings individually. Then rotate camshaft each time.
Repeat until the binding bearing point is found. Depending on sag of camshaft, touch up pertinent camshaft bearing at base (arrows) on a surface
plate.