Timing Component Alignment Marks: Locations

Timing Chain 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 can cause engine failure.

NOTE: The engine comes equipped with either a composite RH timing chain guide requiring the timing chain to ride on the outer side of the guide or a stamped steel RH timing chain guide requiring the timing chain to ride on the inner side of the guide. All replacement RH timing chain guides will be the stamped steel design.

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.






Position the RH secondary timing assembly onto the camshafts.






Assemble the LH VCT assembly, the LH exhaust camshaft sprocket and the LH secondary timing chain.

- Align the colored links with the timing marks.






Position the LH secondary timing assembly onto the camshafts.






Install the crankshaft timing chain sprocket.






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