Installation

PROCEDURE
1. Install the hydraulic valve lash adjusters.

2. Install the chain on the camshaft sprockets as shown in the illustration.

3. Before installation, apply a thin coat of clean engine oil to all sliding surfaces of the camshafts. Install the camshafts.

4. Install the camshaft bearing caps. Check the identification marks indicating intake or exhaust camshafts.

Intake camshaft: I
Exhaust camshaft: E

5. Tighten the camshaft bearing cap bolts to the specified torque.
Torque: 12–14 N·m

6. Apply engine oil to the lip and outer surface of the oil seal, and using special service tool 09221–21000, install the oil seal onto the front of the camshaft.

Tap the special tool with a hammer to install the oil seal until it bottoms out in the housing.

7. Install the camshaft pulley and secure it with the bolt.
Torque: 80–100 N·m
8. Align the camshaft timing mark and the crankshaft pulley timing mark with the pointers, with the No. 1 piston at TDC on the compression stroke.

9. Install the cylinder head cover and tighten the cover bolts to the specified torque.
Torque: 8–10 N·m
10. Install the spark plug wires, ignition coils and distributor cap.
11. Install the timing belt and tighten the timing belt tensioner.
12. Install the timing belt covers.

13. Install the water pump pulley.