Timing Component Alignment Marks: Locations

Timing Alignment

NOTICE: During engine repair procedures, cleanliness is extremely important. Any foreign material, including any material created while cleaning gasket surfaces, that enters the oil passages, coolant passages or the oil pan may cause engine failure.

Assemble the RH Variable Camshaft Timing (VCT) assembly, the RH exhaust camshaft sprocket and the RH secondary timing chain.
- Align the colored links with the timing marks.





Assemble the 2 LH VCT assemblies and the LH secondary timing chain.
- Align the colored links with the timing marks.





Install the crankshaft timing chain sprocket with timing dot mark out.





Install the primary timing chain with the colored links aligned with the timing marks on the VCT assemblies and the crankshaft sprocket.





As a post-check, verify correct alignment of all timing marks.
- There is 48 links in between the RH intake VCT assembly colored link (1) and the LH intake VCT assembly colored link (2).

- There is 35 links in between LH intake VCT assembly colored link (2) and the 2 crankshaft sprocket links (3).