Espace III G9T timing belt — RENAULT
Espace III G9T timing belt on Renault: 98 steps, engines G9T-710, G9T-718. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for RENAULT — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes 2.2, DCI, 16V, |, (85/95, KW)
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
- Special tools named: locking tool
📋 Procedure
Preparation and removal
- Coolant pump renewal is recommended after timing belt removal
- Crankshaft locking tool:
- Remove the engine lower cover
- Align the moveable section of the special tool with the main section
- Remove the engine upper cover
- Turn the tensioner anti-clockwise until the pointer is positioned as shown
- Check that the camshaft gearwheels are not at the end of the slots
- Remove the pendulum support
- Remove the battery tray
- Turn the crankshaft to TDC for cylinder 1
- Disconnect the fuel return line
- Support the engine/gearbox with a lifting jack
- Turn the tensioner clockwise
- Remove the engine support
- Left engine support:
- Remove the nut
- Remove the lifting eye
- Fit a lifting eye to the engine
- Fit the camshaft locking tool
- Fit the camshaft locking tool
- Remove the exhaust camshaft gearwheel
- Remove the timing belt
Installation and checks
- Tighten the tensioner
- Turn the engine 2 rotations by hand
- Tighten the camshaft gearwheel bolts
- Remove the special tools
- Refit the plug
- Refit the sensor
- Refit the cover
- Refit the left engine support
- Refit the right-hand engine support
- Remove the trolley jack
- Refit the fuel filter
- Refit the air filter housing
- Refit the inner wing splash guard
- Refit the wheel arch liner
- Refit the wheel
- Refit the engine upper cover
- Refit the air inlet duct
- Refit the engine lower cover
- Reconnect the battery earth cable
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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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