Removal and Installation

Camshaft

Removal
1. Disconnect battery ground cable.
2. Remove crankshaft pulley.
3. Remove timing belt.
4. Remove cylinder head cover LH.
5. Remove cylinder head cover RH.





6. Remove twenty fixing bolts from inlet and exhaust camshaft bracket on one side bank, then camshaft brackets.
7. Remove camshaft assembly.
8. Remove fixing bolt for camshaft drive gear pulley.





9. Remove three fixing bolts from camshaft drive gear retainer, then camshaft drive gear assembly.

Installation
1. Install camshaft drive gear assembly and tighten three bolts to the specified torque.
Torque: 10 Nm (89 inch lbs.)
2. Tighten bolt for camshaft drive gear assembly pulley to the specified torque.
Torque: 98 Nm (72 ft. lbs.)
3. Tighten sub gear setting bolt.
4. Use J-42686 to turn sub gear to right direction until it aligns with the M5 bolt hole between camshaft driven gear and sub gear.





5. Tighten the M5 bolt to a suitable torque to prevent the sub gear from moving.
6. Install camshaft assembly and camshaft brackets, tighten twenty bolts on one side bank to the specified torque.
7. Apply engine oil to camshaft journal and bearing surface of camshaft bracket.











8. Align timing mark on intake camshaft (one dot for right bank, two dot for left bank) and exhaust camshaft (one dot for right bank, two dots for left bank) to timing mark on camshaft drive gear (one dot).





9. Tighten twenty bolts on numerical order an one side bank as shown in the illustration.
Torque: 10 Nm (89 inch lbs.)
10. Install cylinder head cover RH.
11. Install cylinder head cover LH.
12. Install timing belt.
13. Install crankshaft pulley.
14. Install Accelerator pedal cable.