Timing chain replacement: Citroen camshaft (DV6TED4)
Step-by-step timing chain replacement for the Citroen camshaft (DV6TED4): 40 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for CITROEN — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes 1.6, 16V, HDI, |, FAP, 110, 90, 75, HDIF, H
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
- Special tools named: locking pin, locking tool
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Disconnect the battery earth cable
- Remove the engine upper cover
- Valve cover
- Vacuum pump:
- Remove the fuel filter with bracket
- Remove the vacuum pump
- To cylinder head
- Camshaft gearwheel
- Remove the exhaust manifold heat shield
- Remove the timing belt
- Disconnect the camshaft position sensor electrical connector
- Remove the camshaft position sensor
- Remove the camshaft locking pin
- Lock the camshaft gearwheel
- Camshaft gearwheel locking tool:
- Remove the camshaft gearwheel bolt
- Remove the camshaft gearwheel
- Remove the timing cover bolts
- Remove the timing cover
- Remove the valve cover
- Remove the camshaft bearing caps
- Compress the timing chain tensioner rod
- Remove the camshaft chain
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Who makes these pages, and how
TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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