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- Secure cylinder head bolts by torquing an additional 90"
each for Stage 2 and 3.
Tightening torques
Cylinder head to engine block
(aluminum block)
Stage
1 40 Nm (30 it-lb)
Stage 2 +90°
Stage 3 80'
4 lnstall intake camshaft position sensor (arrow).
4 Install lower secondary chain guide. Tighten tom bolts to
specifications. The bolt on the intake camshaft side is long
and extends into the engine block.
4 Install and tighten cylinder head-to-lower timing chain cover
bolts (arrows). (Photo shows camshafts in place).
Tightening torque Secondary chain guide to cylinder head
10 Nm (89 in-lb)
Cylinder head to lower timing chain cover
M6 10 Nm (89 in-lb)
M7 15 Nm (1 1 it-lb)
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4 Before installing camshaft carriers, examine bearing points
(arrows) on hydraulic lifter bores for signs of wear.
4 Center camshaft carrier with hydraulic lifters on pins (ar-
rows) at bearing positions 2 and 7.
Note marks on carriers: (E) for intake side and (A) for exhaust
side.
Lift timing chain and put exhaust cam onto exhaust camshaft
carrier. Place intake camshaft on camshaft carrier.
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4 Rotate camshafts until intake and exhaust lobes for cylinder
1 face each other (arrows).
CAUTION-
Be sure that cranlcshaft is stillpositioned at least 30" away
from
TDC.
- Place bearing caps on cams, but do not install retaining nuts.
4 Fit BMW special tool 11 3 260 (A) and 11 3 270 (B) to cylin-
der head over intake camshaft and screw long bolts (arrows)
into spark plug threads.
CAUTIOI\C
Do not overtighten bolts in spark plug holes.
Turn eccentric shaft of special tool to pretension
bearing
caps. Install and torque nuts on intake camshaft bearing
caps.
Tightening torque Camshaft bearing
cap to cylinder head (M7) 14 Nm (10 ft-lb)
Release tension on eccentric
shaft and remove BMW special
tools
11 3 2601270.
Repeat procedure for exhaust camshaft.
CAUTION-
After the camshafts are installed, a minimum waiting time is
required for the hydraulic lifters to 'bleed down" before bring-
ing the crankshaft andpiston back to top
deadcenter. When
the camshafts are removed, the hydraulic lifters can expand.
This expansion can cause increased valve lift when the cam-
shafts are bolted down, possibly resulting in piston interfer-
ence.
Crankshaft
I valve timing waiting times
68.F (20°C) and higher 4 minutes
50-68"F(10-20°C) 11 minutes
32-5O0F(O-10°C) 30 minutes
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Double
VANOS Timing
Chain Components
1. Impulse wheel mounting nut
2. Exhaust camshaft impulse
wheel
3. Spring plate, exhaust
4. Thrust spacer (T
= 3.5 mm)
5. Splined shaft
6. Torx screw
7. Exhaust camshaft secondary
sprocket
8. Secondary timing chain
9. Splined sleeve
10. Primary sprocket
11. Threaded locating stud
12. Secondary chain tensioner
13. Secondary chain lower guide
14. Sprocket mounting nut
15. Spring plate, intake
16. Splined shaft
17. lntakecamshaft sprocket
18. Locating stud
19. Thrust spacer
20. Intake camshaft impulse wheel
Double VANOS timing chain components,
installing,
M52 TU and M54 engines -
4 Slide impulse wheel on intake camshaft, aligning boss with
raised portion on camshaft
(arrow).
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Fit thrust spacer (A) to intake camshaft (B) and tighten down
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Fit thrust spacer (A) to intake camshaft (B) and tighten down
with threaded locating studs. Place longer threaded end of
studs into camshaft
(arrows).
Tightening torque
Impulse
wheel studs to intake camshaft) 20 Nm (15 ft-lb)
Fit primary sprocket to primary timing chain and install on ex-
haust camshaft so that pointer on sprocket
(arrow) lines up
with cylinder head sealing surface.
4 Insert BMW special tool 11 4 220 into timing chain tensioner
bore and bring center spindle into contact with tensioning rail.
Tighten until slack is removed, but do not pretension timing
chain.
NOTE-
BMW special tool 11 4 220 is an adjustable primary chain
tensioner and simulates the function of the tensioner.
- Rechecic arrow on primary sprocket is aligned with upper
edge of cylinder head. Reposition sprocket if necessary.
Insert and tighten down threaded locating studs
(arrows) in
end of exhaust camshaft. Note installed position of studs.
Tightening torques Exhaust camshaft locating stud
20 Nm (15 ft-lb)
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4 Install secondary chain tensioner on cylinder head (arrows).
Keep tensioner compressed using BMW special tool 11 3
291 or suitable pin.
< Install exhaust camshaft splined sleeve. Confirm that gap in
sleeve splines aligns with corresponding gap in
camshaft
splines (arrows).
Slide splined shaft onto exhaust camshaft. Be sure that locat-
ing tooth of shaft fits into spline gaps of camshaft and splined
sleeve
(arrows).
- Push splined shaft in further to rotate splined sleeve until the
three threaded holes in primary chain sprocket are centered
in the small slots of the splined sleeve.
4 Place intake and exhaust sprockets in BMW special tool 11 6
180. Position spline gap on intake sprocket (arrow) as shown
and place secondary chain on sprockets.
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Remove chain and sprockets from tool and slide sprockets
on camshafts. Confirm that gap in intake sprocket splines
lines up with corresponding gap in camshaft splines (arrow).
CAUTIOI\C
Do not alter position of sprockets with respect to chain when
removing
from special tool 11 6 180.
< Align locating tooth of splined shaft with gaps on camshaft
and sprocket. Slide splined shaft onto intake camshaft until
approx.
1 mm (0.04 in) of splines (arrows) are visible.
4 Install intake camshafl spring plate so that FRONT mark is
visible. Install mounting nuts (arrows) finger tight.
Insert sprocket mounting bolts (arrows) on exhaust side
camshaft assembly.
Initially tighten to approx.
5 Nm (44 in-lb) and then back off
by half a turn.
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Secure camshaft sprockets and impulse wheels:
Tighten mounting screws
(A) on exhaust camshaft impulse
wheel to approx.
5 Nm (44 in-lb).
Tighten mounting nuts
(8) on exhaust and intake sprocket
assemblies to approx.
5 Nm (44 in-lb).
Torque down mounting screws (A) and nuts (B) to final
specifications.
Tightening torques
sprocket assembly to camshaft
initial torque
5 Nm (44 in-lb)
Sprocket assembly
wheel to camshaft
M7 torx screws (A) 20 Nm (15 ft-lb)
M6 mounting nuts (5) 10 Nm (8 ft-lb)
- Remove crankshaft locking tool from transmission bell hous-
ing so that crankshaft is no longer secured in
TDC position.
- Remove camshaft locking tools from cylinder head.
4 Turn engine over twice in direction of rotation until cylinder 1
intake and exhaust camshaft lobes (arrows) face each other.
- Secure crankshaft in TDC position with BMW special tool 11
2 300.
4 Place BMW special tool set 11 3 240 over camshafts and
measure clearances.
CAUTION-
- If the exhaust side of the tool (A) is not flush with tlie head,
camshaft timing is incorrect Reset camshaft timing as de-
scribed in
117 Camshaft Timing Chain.
* Due to flexible sprocket design, VANOS unit tolerances
and play in the VANOS splines, when the camshaft tim-
ing is set correctly, the intake side of special tool
11 3
240 (6) may be up to 1 mm (0.04 in.) above the surface
of the cylinder head. This is normal. Reassemble en-
gine.
Othe~lise, reset camshaft timing as described in
11 7 Camshaft Timing Chain.
- Remove BMW special tool 11 6 150 from front of cylinder
head.