Checking Valve Guides - Volkswagen Touareg 2003 Workshop Repair Manual

2.6.2 Installing
– To prevent damage to new valve stem seals, place plastic
sleeve -A- on valve stem.
– Lubricate sealing lip of valve stem seal -B-, place it in the valve
stem oil seal fitting tool -3365- and push carefully onto valve
guide.
– Remove plastic sleeve -A-.
If the valve cotters have been removed from the assembly item
then they must be inserted into the insertion device -VAS
5161/18- .
Note
Larger diameter faces upwards.
– Insert valve spring and valve spring plate.
– Secure guide plate -VAS 5161/7- back to cylinder head.
– Insert assembly cartridge -VAS 5161/8- into guide plate.
– Press pressure fork down and pull knurled screw upwards.
This causes the valve cotters to be inserted.
– Release pressure fork with knurled screw still in pulled posi‐
tion.
– Install camshafts with camshaft adjuster
Adjusting valve timing ⇒ page 34
Note
After installing camshafts wait for approx. 30 minutes before
♦
starting engine. Hydraulic compensating elements must settle.
(Valves will otherwise contact piston).
After working on valve mechanism, carefully turn engine by
♦
hand to ensure that no valve strikes piston when engine is
started.
2.7

Checking valve guides

Special tools and workshop equipment required
8-cylinder injection engine - Edition 11.2011
⇒ page 56 .
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2. Repairing valve gear