Drive Plate: Installing

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-- Install the drive plate only by using a washer with recesses -1- (without compensating shim -2-).

Fig 1: Identifying Drive Plate Installed Only By Using Washer With Recesses

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-- Install new bolts -3- and tighten them to 30 Nm.

-- Check the dimension -a- at three points and calculate the mean value.

Fig 2: Identifying Check Of Dimension

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Specified value: 18.8 to 20.4 mm

NOTE:

Measure through the drive plate hole to the surface of the control housing cover.

If the specification is not obtained:

-- Remove the drive plate again and use the shim -2-. Tighten the bolts -3- to 30 Nm again and repeat the measurement.

Fig 3: Identifying Drive Plate Installed Only By Using Washer With Recesses

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If the specified value is OK:

-- Tighten the bolts to 60 Nm + an additional + 90° (1/4) turn, the additional turn n may occur in several stages.

The rest of the installation follows the reverse of the removal procedures. When doing this note the following:

Remove the locking pin T40069 from the rear of the cylinder block and install the locking bolt.