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Camshaft bearing caps unscrew order, engine 603

"Caution! It is absolutely essential to observe the following sequence during removal and installation in order to avoid damage to the camshaft:

Engine 603 Unscrew both hexagon bolts on camshaft bearing caps 1, 5 and 6 (DARK arrows). Loosen both hexagon bolts on camshaft bearing caps 2, 3, 4 and 7 in increments of one turn respectively, until counter pressure is reduced (LIGHT arrows)."

OK. but the supporting picture shows exactly the opposite - the arrows over bearing caps 1,5 and 6 are LIGHT and the arrows over caps 2, 3, 4 and 7 are DARK. What is true - the numbers or the arrow color? Or in other words, which bearing caps must be unscrewed first and which must be loosen after that?

Thanks

Reply to
Dimitar Douchkov
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You're kidding ?. You need to stop driving yourself crazy about what bearing cap to unscrew first. Mark your camshaft sprocket to the cam, use white out, take a tie strap and tie the chain around to cam sprocket, remove the timing chain tensioner, then remove multy hex 13mm bolt that mounts the sprocket to the cam. Now you're ready for the cam caps, take them off any which way you like, I start at the front and finish with the last one, this helps keeping them in order, which you need to do as you take them off. DO NOT turn the engine while the sprocket and chain are off, do not worry about timing the engine either, by using the tie strap, everything will stay the way it was before.

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Bnzmn600

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