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Cylinder Head

RH Cylinder Head

NOTICE: The cylinder head bolts are tightened in 2 progressive steps.

a. Apply a light coat of engine oil on the threads and under the heads of the cylinder head bolts.
b. Install the plate washer to the cylinder head bolt.





c. Install and uniformly tighten the 8 cylinder head bolts, in several passes, in the sequence shown.
Torque: 54 Nm (551 kgf-cm, 40 ft. lbs.)





d. Mark the front side of each cylinder head bolt head with paint.
e. Retighten the cylinder head bolts by 90° in the sequence shown.
f. Check that the painted mark is now at a 90° angle to the front.





g. Using an 8 mm socket hexagon wrench, install the hexagon bolt.
Torque: 19 Nm (189 kgf-cm, 14 ft. lbs.)


LH Cylinder Head


NOTICE: The cylinder head bolts are tightened in 2 progressive steps.

a. Apply a light coat of engine oil on the threads and under the heads of the cylinder head bolts.
b. Install the plate washer to the cylinder head bolt.





c. Install and uniformly tighten the 8 cylinder head bolts, in several passes, in the sequence shown.
Torque: 54 Nm (551 kgf-cm, 40 ft. lbs.)





d. Mark the front side of each cylinder head bolt head with paint.
e. Retighten the cylinder head bolts by 90° in the sequence shown.
f. Check that the painted mark is now at a 90° angle to the front.





g. Using an 8 mm socket hexagon wrench, install the hexagon bolt.
Torque: 19 Nm (189 kgf-cm, 14 ft. lbs.)