Assembly
Assembly
1. Install valve component parts.
- Always use new valve oil seal.
- Before installing valve oil seal, install inner valve spring seat.
- Install outer valve spring (uneven pitch type) with its narrow pitch side toward cylinder head side.
- After installing valve component parts, use plastic hammer to lightly tap valve stem tip to assure a proper fit.
2. Install camshafts, locate plates and cylinder head rear covers.
- Set knock pin of camshaft at the top.
3. Install valve lifters into valve lifter guide.
- Assemble valve lifters to their original position and hold all valve lifters with wire to prevent lifters from falling off.
- After installing, remove the wire.
4. Install rocker shafts with rocker arms.
- Tighten bolts gradually in two or three stages.
- Before tightening, be sure to set camshaft the lobe at the position where lobe is not lifted.
a. Set No. 1 piston at TDC on its compression stroke and tighten rocker shaft bolts for No. 2, No. 4 and No. 6 cylinders.
b. Set No. 4 piston at TDC on its compression stroke and tighten rocker shaft bolts for No. 1, No. 3 and No. 5 cylinders.
5. Install exhaust manifold to cylinder head in reverse order of removal.