Refit - Engines fitted with manual timing belt tensioner

8. Remove camshaft timing belt lower front cover. See this section.

9. If camshaft timing belt is to be reused, mark position of tensioner backplate to cylinder head. Mark direction of rotation on belt using chalk.
10. Loosen tensioner pulley Allen screw¹/₂ turn.
11. Loosen tensioner backplate bolt¹/₂ turn.
12. Push tensioner pulley down to fully OFF position and tighten backplate bolt to 10 Nm.
13. Lower engine to allow clearance between RH mounting bracket and engine.
14. Remove camshaft timing belt.

CAUTION: Ease timing belt from the gears using the fingers only, metal levers may damage the belt and gears. Do not rotate the crankshaft with the timing belt removed and the cylinder head fitted.

Refit - Engines fitted with manual timing belt tensioner

1. Clean crankshaft pulley, timing belt gears, coolant pump drive gear and tensioner pulley.

CAUTION: If the sintered gears have been subjected to prolonged oil contamination, they must be soaked in a solvent bath and then thoroughly washed in clean solvent before refitting. Because of the porous construction of sintered material, oil impregnated in the gears will emerge and contaminate the belt.

2. Check correct alignment of camshaft timing marks for 90° BTDC and that tool 18G 1570 is locking camshaft gears.