406 XU7JP4 SINGLE BOLT SPROCKETS with marker — PEUGEOT
406 XU7JP4 SINGLE BOLT SPROCKETS with marker on Peugeot: 70 steps, engines XU7JP4(LFY). What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for PEUGEOT — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes 1.8, 16V
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
- Special tools named: locking pin, locking tool
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- The movement of the gearwheel in relation to the belt must not be more than one tooth space
- Repeat the procedure if the tension is incorrect or the locking tools do not fit properly
- Do not remove the locking clip
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
Preparation and removal
- Crankshaft locking pin:
- Extractor:
- Note: The movement of the gearwheel in relation to the belt must not be more than one tooth space
- Unlock the tensioner
- Remove the ancillary drive belt
- Position the tensioner as shown
- Note: Turn the engine clockwise
- Fit the camshaft locking tool
- Fit the camshaft locking pins
- Fit all the locking tools
- Remove the crankshaft pulley centre bolt
- Loosen the tensioner pulley, keeping it steady with an Allen key
- Remove the crankshaft pulley
- Loosen the camshaft gearwheel bolts slightly
- Position the tensioner as shown
- Fit the pin
- Turn the tensioner anti-clockwise until there is contact with the pin
- Hold the tensioner against the locking pin; use a drill bit to hold the Allen key
- Remove the timing belt
- Note: Do not remove the locking clip
Installation and checks
- Remove all the locking tools
- Turn the crankshaft clockwise
- 4 turns
- Tighten the tensioner
- Tighten the camshaft gearwheels
- Fit the crankshaft pulley
- Turn the crankshaft clockwise
- 2 turns
- Check the position of the tensioner
- Repeat the procedure if the tension is incorrect or the locking tools do not fit properly
Other PEUGEOT procedures
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- Xsara XU7JP4 kop uit in
- Peugeot 407 and EW10J4/EW7J4 timing belt replacement
- Peugeot 306 DW8/DW8B timing belt replacement
- 406 XUD9 turbo
- Peugeot EP6CDTX timing chain replacement
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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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