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Old 04-07-2014, 11:12 AM   #3
Benjamin
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After doing some more reading, a lot of thinking, and a bit of sketching, I think I have it ironed out. It makes sense to lock down the bank 1 exhaust cam and remove the bank 1 IMS to cam tensioner, as well as the crank to IMS tensioner. I see little to no value in removing the bank 2 tensioner because of it's location and potential skewing effect on the IMS bearing end of the IMS. The reason to remove the tensioners is so that the end of the IMS will not be pulled askew when the bearing is removed. With the IMS bearing removed, the flywheel end of the shaft will have quite a bit of potential for movement (hence the need to remove or greatly loosen the two tensioners mentioned above). The bank 2 chain is on the pulley end and is subject to almost no movement at all and any tension put on the IMS shaft would result in comparatively little movement on the IMS bearing end. Here is a sketch I threw together as to how I understand the internal components to be laid out. (Obviously things aren't to scale and it's lacking quite a bit of detail with the cams, etc, but you get the idea)


The intake cams were left off for clarity and due to laziness.
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