F8Q F9Q with Lucas or Bosch pump timing — RENAULT
F8Q F9Q with Lucas or Bosch pump timing on Renault: 57 steps, engines F8Q-630, F8Q-662, F9Q-722, F9Q-780.
Workshop procedure for RENAULT — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes 1.9, D, |, DTI
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
- Special tools named: dial gauge, locking tool
Don't miss
- Never dismantle the injection pump gearwheel
- The special tool must remain in position
📋 Procedure
Preparation and removal
- Never dismantle the injection pump gearwheel
- Remove the fuel line(s)
- Fit the special tools
- At BDC the dial gauge should be set to zero
- If the engine is turned 1 revolution, at BDC the dial gauge should read zero
- Check the camshaft timing marks
- Lock the crankshaft
- Check the injection pump timing
- Remove the injection pump gearwheel cover
- Lock the injection pump gearwheel
- Use a special tool:
- Loosen the injection pump bolt slightly
- Use a special tool:
- Note: Left-hand thread
- The flange should be able to rotate
Installation and checks
- Adjust if necessary
- Type 2:
- Fit the special tool
- Align the camshaft timing marks
- Lock the crankshaft
- Use a special tool:
- Check the injection pump timing
- Set the injection pump timing
- Remove the crankshaft locking tool
- Fit the special tool
- Turn the tool and the flange; the 3 lugs should engage
- Turn the gearwheel clockwise to its lock
- The gearwheel is now in the correct position to start the timing of the pump
- Remove the injection pump locking tool
- Align the camshaft timing marks
- Lock the crankshaft
- Use the special tool to turn the injection pump anti-clockwise and set the correct value
- If the value is exceeded, turn 2 rotations clockwise and start again
- Use the special tool
- The special tool must remain in position
- Tighten the injection pump gearwheel
- Note: Left-hand thread
- The gauge should not move
- Fit the injection pump gearwheel locking tool
- Tighten the injection pump gearwheel
- Remove all the locking tools
- Turn the crankshaft clockwise
- 2 turns
- Check the injection pump timing
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- Ancillary belt K4M, K4J
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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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The story behind TorqFix →Workshop data on this page last updated 20 Sep 2026.