Disassembling V6 DFI Engine
- Remove engine wire harness
- Remove bar ignition modules
- Remove intake-air distributor
> WM 244619 REMOVING AND INSTALLING INTAKE-AIR DISTRIBUTOR (CAYENNE)
- Remove drive belt
- Remove belt tensioner
> WM, 137319 REMOVING AND INSTALLING BELT TENSIONER
Belt tensioner
Arrows Belt tensioner
- Remove unit carrier
Removing and installing unit carrier
- Belt tensioner
- Cheese head bolt on belt tensioner
- Unit carrier
- Fit bolt for unit carrier
- Cheese head bolt for unit carrier
- Dowel sleeve for unit carrier
- Deflection roller with fastening screw
- Drive belt (poly-rib belt)
- Generator
- Coolant pump pulley
- Drive wheel for air-conditioning compressor
- Power-steering pump pulley
- Crankshaft vibration damper
- Remove generator
- Remove coolant pump
- Remove all coolant hoses and additional coolant pump with holder.
- Remove fastening screws -2- .
- Pull off cable plugs and remove coolant hoses -3.4 and 5- .
- Remove additional coolant pump with sheetmetal holder -1- .
Removing and installing additional coolant pump
- Sheetmetal holder
- Fastening screws for coolant pump holder
- Coolant hose
- Coolant hose
- Coolant hose
- Remove oil/water heat exchanger and engine support arm
- Remove exhaust manifold if necessary
> WM 261019 REMOVING AND INSTALLING EXHAUST MANIFOLD (CAYENNE)
Exhaust manifold
Arrows Exhaust manifold fastening nuts
- Remove fuel distributor pipe (fuel rail)
> WM, 243019 REMOVING AND INSTALLING FUEL DISTRIBUTOR PIPE (FUEL RAIL) ON DFI ENGINES
Fuel distributor pipe
- Fuel line (low pressure)
- Cheese head bolts for fuel distributor pipe
- Fuel injectors
- Remove coolant regulator
> WM, 195819 REMOVING AND INSTALLING COOLANT REGULATOR (THERMOSTAT)
- Release spring band clamp
- Pull thermostat housing -1- completely out of the cylinder block.
Coolant regulator
- Thermostat housing
- Spring band clamp
- Coolant hose
- Remove cylinder head cover
> WM, 158219 REMOVING AND INSTALLING CYLINDER HEAD COVER (VALVE COVER)
- Remove flywheel/drive plate.
- Remove drive plate on vehicles with automatic transmission
> WM, 136319 REMOVING AND INSTALLING DRIVE PLATE FOR TORQUE CONVERTER ON V6 DFI ENGINES
- Remove drive plate on vehicles with automatic transmission
- Remove oil pan
- Remove timing-case cover at the top and bottom
> WM 153319 REMOVING AND INSTALLING TIMING-CASE COVER (CAYENNE S & CAYENNE GTS)
- Set crankshaft for cylinder 1 to compression TDC
> WM, 150502 CHECKING THE TIMING
Removal of chain tensioner
- Press the bottom chain tensioner together during removal because otherwise it will push out due to spring tensioning. Secure chain tensioner with a tie-wrap in tensioned state.
- Remove chain tensioner
> WM 153619 REMOVING AND INSTALLING CHAIN TENSIONER (CAYENNE)
- Remove timing chains
- Remove camshaft controllers
- Remove camshafts
> WM, 150520 REMOVING AND INSTALLING CAMSHAFTS
- Removing timing chain housing
- Remove intake camshaft. Loosen the hexagon nuts on the bearing covers alternately and crosswise. Note the sequence in which the bearing covers are removed.
- Remove bearing covers 1 and 13.
- Remove bearing covers 3 and 11.
- Remove bearing cover 7.
- Remove bearing covers 5 and 9.
- Remove outlet camshaft. Loosen the hexagon nuts on the bearing covers alternately and crosswise. Note the sequence in which the bearing covers are removed.
- Remove bearing covers 2 and 14.
- Remove bearing covers 4 and 12.
- Remove bearing cover 8.
- Remove bearing covers 6 and 10.
Overview of cylinder head on V6 DFI engine
- Intake camshaft
- Camshaft bearing cover
- Outlet camshaft
- Hexagon nut on camshaft bearing cover
- Sealing rings (40 x 1.5)
- Timing chain housing
- Oval-head screw on timing chain housing
- Outlet camshaft controller (marking 32 A)
- Intake camshaft controller (marking 24 E)
- Hexagon-head bolts on camshaft controllers
- Cylinder head height (min. height a=139.9 mm)
- Drive gearwheel for high-pressure pump
- Bearing shaft
- Valves
- Dowel sleeve
- Cylinder head
- Pump tappet
- Support element
- Valve stem seal
- Timing chain
- Safety clip
- Rocker arm
- Valve spring
- Valve-spring plate
- Valve collets
Removing timing chain housing
- Cheese head bolt > Torque support 8 Nm
- Timing chain housing
- Remove hydraulic tappets
> WM 155919 REMOVING AND INSTALLING HYDRAULIC TAPPETS (CAYENNE TIP & CAYENNE TIP "PLATINUM EDITION")
- Remove cylinder head
> WM 157019 REMOVING AND INSTALLING CYLINDER HEAD ON V6 DFI ENGINES (CAYENNE)
- Remove and dispose of cylinder-head gasket.
- Remove oil pump
> WM, 172019 REMOVING AND INSTALLING OIL PUMP
Removal of connecting-rod bearing cap:
- Connecting-rod bearing caps must be marked and numbered during removal. Retaining lugs of bearing shells are pressed together. The cast lugs of connecting-rod bearings and connecting-rod big end are identical!
- Remove pistons
- Remove vibration
balancer.
> WM, 137619 REMOVING AND INSTALLING VIBRATION DAMPER (CRANKSHAFT PULLEY)
Brace
- Remove joint flange behind the vibration balancer.
- Remove hexagon-head bolts -3- .
- Carefully lever off the joint flange -2- with a screwdriver.
Crankshaft joint flange
- Cylinder block
- Vibration balancer joint flange
- Hexagon-head bolt on vibration balancer joint flange
- Straight pin
- Lower timing-case cover
- Fastening screw on lower timing-case cover
Information
Removal of crankshaft
Before removing the crankshaft, have a suitable tray ready so that the pulse-generating wheel is not damaged as a result of excessive contact.
The engine is secured on the engine support to facilitate assembly work.
When replacing bearing shells, only use bearing shells with the same color coding.
- Remove crankshaft.
> WM 134819 REMOVING AND INSTALLING CRANKSHAFT (CAYENNE TIP)
- Prepare a clean surface for laying down the crankshaft. Make sure not to damage the drive plate for the inductive pickup (speed sender) when laying down the crankshaft.
- Remove crankshaft bearing covers -1- and lay them down arranged according to cylinder.
- Dispose of thrust washers -4- and crankshaft bearing shells -3- .
- Remove the crankshaft and lay it down on the prepared surface.
- Remove oil spray jets -8- if necessary.
Crank drive on V6 DFI engine
- Crankshaft bearing covers
- Internal serration screws on crankshaft bearing covers
- Crankshaft bearing shells must always be replaced
- Thrust washer for bearing cover 5 must always be replaced
- Crankshaft
- Drive plate for inductive pickup (speed sender)
- Fastening screw on drive plate for inductive pickup (speed sender)
- Oil spray jet