BMW 3 series E46

Since 1998 of release

Repair and car operation



The BMW of 3 series Е46
+ Cars BMW 3 (Е46)
+ Current leaving and service
- The engine
   - Procedures of repair of the engine
      Removal and installation of the bottom cover of an impellent compartment
      Removal and installation of a box of an air inlet
      Compression check
      Removal and installation of the inlet pipeline
      Removal and installation of a head of cylinders / replacement of a sealing lining
      Removal and installation of camshafts
      Removal and installation of the vacuum pump
      Removal, installation and tension клинового a belt
   + System of greasing of the engine
+ Systems of cooling, heating
+ Power supply systems, injection and release
+ Engine electric equipment
+ Manual transmission and transmission a line
+ Automatic transmission
+ Coupling and power shafts
+ Brake system
+ Suspension bracket and steering
+ Body
+ Onboard electric equipment
+ Electric equipment schemes



Removal and installation of camshafts

Camshafts at 4-klapannogo the engine can act in film, if, for example, it is necessary to weaken bolts of fastening of a head of cylinders. As special tool BMW it is recommended to spend this operation on HUNDRED BMW for this purpose is required.

At installation without the special tool there is a danger of damage of camshafts. Besides, valves can be погнуты at contact with the bottoms of pistons.

All elements клапанного a drive, for example, loose leaves of bearings or тарельчатые springs and gear plugs on asterisks should be established on their former places. For this purpose they are necessary for placing on the special pallet.


Models 320i, 323i, 328i (engine M52TU)

 REMOVAL

1 Remove a casing of the air filter, address to Section Removal and installation of the air filter of the engine.
2 Remove spark plugs, address to Spark plug Section.

3 Disconnect a ventilation branch pipe crankcase at a cover of a head of cylinders of the pipeline ”.

4 Turn away bolts of fastening and uncover heads of cylinders (an arrow on an illustration). Thus pay attention to rubber linings of bolts of fastening later correctly to establish them.

5 Remove the fan fan/muftu, address to Section Removal and installation of the fan with вязкостной муфтой.
6 Uncover a camshaft of inlet valves.

7 Disconnect маслопровод (an arrow on an illustration) at double block VANOS.

8 Instead of маслопровода attach to double block VANOS the compressed air through a corresponding adapter and submit air pressure from 2 to 8 bar.

These and subsequent operations are necessary to establish camshafts in their substantive provision.

9 Turn a cranked shaft at least on two turns in an hour hand direction at loaded block VANOS. To turn a cranked shaft and accordingly the engine it is possible for one of next ways:

— Switch a check point in neutral position and tighten a lay brake. Turn a cranked shaft for the central bolt of fastening of a pulley in a direction of an hour hand by means of a head.
— Lift and establish the car on supports sideways behind. Include the fifth transfer and release a lay brake. Turn forward the lifted back wheel. Thus the cranked shaft simultaneously turns
— Establish the car on an equal platform. Include the fifth transfer. Cautiously shift or ask to shift the car forward.

10 Establish a cranked shaft in position ВМТ of the first cylinder. Tops of cams (an arrow on an illustration) inlet and final valves of the first cylinder (from outside drive ГРМ) should be turned upwards.

11 Fix a cranked shaft in position ВМТ by tool BMW or other suitable core. For this purpose insert a core into an aperture in the block of cylinders (the marksman on an illustration) in a flywheel aperture, having taken out preliminary a stopper in the block of cylinders.

12 Turn out hairpins (arrows on an illustration).

13 Fix camshafts tool BMW-11 3 240, shown on an illustration in position ВМТ of the first cylinder. It is possible to take advantage of tool KLANI KL-0580-4. The tool is established through hexahedron camshafts and imposed on an edge of a head of cylinders.

14 Disconnect compressed air from block VANOS-4.

After opening of carving stoppers oil follows. Prepare a rag and capacity. The oil which has got on rubber elements and клиновой a belt, immediately wipe.

15 Turn out carving stoppers-1 in an axis of camshafts of inlet and final valves, wipe the flowed out oil.
16 Take out cover flat-nose pliers - 2-under stoppers.
17 Turn out the calibrated bolts-3 under covers.

Bolts have the left carving, that is for отворачивания it is necessary to rotate them to the right.

18 Turn away an eye (arrows on an illustration).

19 Rasstykujte a socket at block VANOS.

20 Turn away a nut (arrows on an illustration) and remove block VANOS.

After block VANOS removal to turn the engine it is not supposed. The gear platen of a camshaft of inlet valves can slip out from шлицевого connections and valves become uncontrollable and can strike on the piston bottom.


21 Turn out натяжитель chains (the marksman on an illustration) at a head of cylinders.

Keep натяжитель, it is under the pressure of a spring.


22 Press top натяжитель chains at a connecting chain between camshafts and fix in this position, having inserted tool BMW-11 3 292.

23 Turn away three nuts of fastening of the gauge on an asterisk of a camshaft of final valves. Remove a wheel of the gauge with тарельчатой springs from an asterisk.

24 Turn away a fastening nut (arrows on an illustration) on an asterisk of a camshaft of inlet valves. Remove a persistent washer from an asterisk.

Before отворачиванием nuts of fastening of an asterisk of a camshaft of final valves lead round nuts a felt-tip pen that at installation an asterisk to fix in its former position. Otherwise correctly to expose asterisks it will be possible only by means of special tool BMW.

25 Turn away three bolts of fastening of an asterisk of a camshaft of final valves.
26 Remove both asterisks with a chain from camshafts.

27 Disconnect top натяжитель chains (arrows on an illustration).

28 Disconnect an asterisk from a camshaft.

Fix an asterisk a wire that it has not slipped downwards.


29 For removal of camshafts adaptation BMW 11 3 260 is required. It is intended for all bearings of camshafts in installation position when loose leaves of bearings are released. Operation of removal of both camshafts is identical, the sequence of removal of value has no.

30 Turn out spark plugs. Establish the adaptation and fix it in carving apertures of spark plugs of cylinders 1 and 4 moment 25 Nm.

31 Turn a wrench эксцентриковый a shaft in a direction of an arrow and fix covers of bearings.

32 Oslabte bolts of fastening of all covers of bearings.

The cover of the first bearing of a camshaft of inlet valves is aligned by plugs. For an exception of a warp of a camshaft turn away bolts of fastening of a cover of the first bearing and remove it.

33 Oslabte the adaptation also remove it.

34 Remove covers of bearings and camshafts. Put covers as their installation on the engine. Installation of covers on the engine is necessary for executing in the same order. Covers of bearings of a camshaft of final valves have marks with А1 on А7, camshafts of inlet valves with Е1 on Е7 (arrows on an illustration).

35 If it is necessary, for example, for removal of valves, remove in the complete set a lath of bearings-2 with pushers. Pay attention to aligning plugs-2. Plancks of bearings in a point “2” have marks "And" for the party of release and “Е” for the admission party.

Pushers of valves can slip out downwards a lath of bearings if they are not fixed. HUNDRED BMW apply to this purpose of a sucker which can be established from above on a pusher and interfere выскальзыванию. Mark pushers. They should be established on a former place if were taken out from a lath. 1 - a head of cylinders.

Do not put the removed pushers more than on 10 mines on a head, otherwise from it impellent oil will flow out and automatic indemnification клапанных backlashes will cease to work.


Asterisks driving block VANOS chains

1 — a wheel of the pulse gauge
2 — тарельчатая a spring
3 — a persistent washer of 3.5 mm
4 — a gear shaft
5 — an asterisk
6 — screw TORX
7 — the gear plug
8 — an asterisk
9 — a pin

10 — a camshaft of inlet valves
11 — a figured washer
12 — a gear shaft
13 — an asterisk
14 — a pin
15 — a persistent washer
16 — a wheel of the pulse gauge
17 — a camshaft of inlet valves



 INSTALLATION

Before installation of camshafts turn a cranked shaft approximately on 30 ° against a direction of rotation of the engine (to the left for hexahedron a pulley) through ВМТ. Thus, any of pistons will not stand above and it will be possible to plant valves into place. Hydropushers of valves without loading from outside a camshaft are extended and after installation demand some time again to be compressed. Thereof valves can be opened more than it corresponds to position of a camshaft and can sit down on pistons. Therefore after installation of camshafts it is necessary to wait for 40 mines while it will be possible to turn the engine. Only after that it is possible to turn a cranked shaft in position ВМТ and to establish chains of drive ГРМ, address to subsection Installation of a head of cylinders.

1 Check up a surface of pushers, in the presence of defects replace.
аспределительных shaft also establish camshafts so that tops of cams of the first cylinder showed against each other.

2 Establish a lath with bearings and the inserted pushers in a head of cylinders. Check up presence of centering plugs-3.

3 Insert loose leaves of bearings according to marks. They should settle down on former places.
4 Insert the adaptation and clamp loose leaves.
5 Tighten loose leaves of camshafts the moment 15 Nm.
6 Remove the adaptation.

7 Insert a ruler for fixing of camshafts.

8 If necessary. An arrow - hexahedron the second camshaft.

Watch to damaging the case of camshafts. If necessary сошлифуйте outside a wrench.

9 Fix a wheel of the gauge and a persistent washer on a camshaft of inlet valves the moment 20 Nm.

10 Establish an asterisk on distributive to a shaft of final valves. The arrow on an asterisk should specify towards the top edge of a head of cylinders.

натяжителя chains-1 will turn out 11 Piston. Screw in a carving натяжителя tool BMW – 11 4 220.

The specified tool presses a chain and pulls it that asterisks of camshafts were in the working position a little. In the presence of some skills such tool can be made independently. In the absence of the tool correct installation of a chain is impossible.

12 Slightly press натяжитель chains rotation of the tension screw of tool BMW – 11 4 220. The chain should not sag.

13 Expose an asterisk on a camshaft of final valves. The arrow on an asterisk should specify in the parties of the top edge of a head of cylinders.

14 Fix an asterisk on distributive to a shaft of final valves three bolts the moment 28 Nm.

15 Fix top натяжитель chains.

16 Insert the gear plug-6. Thus hollows of teeths on distributive to a shaft and the gear plug should be opposite each other (arrows on an illustration).

17 Insert a gear shaft so that bolts of fastening of an asterisk lay in the centre of oval apertures of the gear plug.

18 Put on the top chain asterisks and expose according to the marks put at removal. If new details are established, transfer on them marks from old details.

19 Put on the top chain with both asterisks camshafts. Thus hollows of teeths (the marksman on an illustration) on distributive to a shaft of inlet valves and on an asterisk should be opposite each other. Insert a gear shaft-4 pins into hollows of teeths and press.

Unlike an illustration the persistent washer-5 is not established yet.

20 Again take out a gear shaft-4 a little so that 1 mm of width of a tooth was visible.
21 Establish a persistent washer on an asterisk of a camshaft of inlet valves so that it was possible to read an inscription “FRONT”. Screw nuts of fastening of an asterisk so that they прилгали, but do not tighten them.
22 Fix an asterisk of camshafts, having tightened nuts the moment 5 Nm, and then again loosen the them on a half-turn.
23 Establish a persistent washer on an asterisk of a camshaft of inlet valves so that the inscription “F” was visible. If the inscription is not visible, pay attention to a direction of installation of a persistent washer: the Big adjoining diameter should show in a camshaft direction.
24 Establish on an asterisk of a camshaft of final valves a gauge wheel. The arrow on a wheel should be turned outside towards the top edge of a head of cylinders.
25 Take out against the stop a gear shaft on an asterisk of a camshaft of final valves.

26 Press a hand on натяжитель the top chain and remove fixing tool BMW.

27 Pull a chain rotation of the tension screw of tool BMW-11 by 4 220 moment 0.7 Nm.

28 Clear of oil and pollution a sealing surface of block VANOS. Check up presence of directing plugs-1.

29 Fix tool BMW-11 6 150-1 (arrows on an illustration). This tool fixes gear plugs at a tension of asterisks.

30 Press three nuts-2 and-3 to both asterisks at first the moment 5 Nm, without tightening them.
31 Tighten bolts-4 in grooves the moment 22 Nm.
32 Tighten nuts-2 and-3 moment 22 Nm.
33 Disconnect tool BMW-11 6 150.
34 Condense corners of a sealing surface between a head of cylinders and block VANOS hermetic “Drei Bond 1209” or “Loctite Ultra Black”.

35 Replace a sealing lining of block VANOS. Fix the block (arrows on an illustration). Tighten nuts М6 the moment 10 Nm and nuts М6 the moment 22 Nm.

36 Join a socket at block VANOS.
37 Screw directing bolts at camshafts of inlet and final valves and tighten the moment 10 Nm.

The left carving, that is for заворачивания it is necessary to rotate to the left.

38 Replace the covers which are under carving stoppers, and insert their flat-nose pliers.
39 Wrap carving stoppers with new sealing rings at camshafts an admission of inlet and final valves and tighten the moment 50 Nm.
40 Fix bolts an engine eye in front.
41 Remove the special tool for fixing of distributive and cranked shaft.

42 Attach the pipeline of compressed air by means of an adapter and submit air pressure 2 – 8 bar.

43 Turn not less than on two turns a cranked shaft in a direction of an hour hand and block VANOS loaded with air.

44 Establish the engine in position ВМТ of the first cylinder. Tops of cams of inlet and final valves of the first cylinder (an arrow on an illustration) should be turned upwards simultaneously.

45 Again insert a core for fixing of a cranked shaft.

46 Again insert a core for camshaft fixing.

The ruler for fixing of camshafts can tower on 1 mm over a camshaft of inlet valves. If the ruler from outside a final collector costs highly, it is necessary to adjust газораспределительный the mechanism turn of asterisks of camshafts. For this purpose loosen the asterisks on camshafts, turn them and then again fix the moment 22 Nm.

47 Remove a ruler for fixing of camshafts.
48 Remove joining of compressed air from block VANOS. Fix маслопровод to block VANOS with new consolidations by the moment 30 Nm. Join a socket.

49 Turn out tool BMW-11 4 220 at натяжителя chains.

50 Turn out the piston of a tension of a chain with a new sealing ring the moment 70 Nm.

51 Screw a finger of a cover of a head of cylinders.

52 Establish a cover of camshafts of inlet valves.
53 Grease interfaced surfaces between block VANOS and a head of cylinders hermetic, for example, “Drei Bond 1209” or “Loctite Ultra Black”.
With 54 Same hermetic grease transitions to полукружьям a sealing surface to a cover of a head of cylinders.

55 Establish covers of a head of cylinders. The damaged linings replace, address to an accompanying illustration. At installation of a lining of a cover of a head of cylinders special attention turn on correct position in полукружьях the face party of a head of cylinders. In regular intervals press out a cover the moment 10 Nm.

56 Insert the gauge of recognition of cylinders and fix it. At damage of a sealing ring replace it.
57 Establish spark plugs, address to Spark plug Section.
58 Establish a final collector and a reception pipe, address to Section Removal and installation of a final collector.

Before engine start take out a core of position ВМТ in a flywheel. Again establish in an aperture on the block of cylinders заглушку.

59 Establish joining for ventilation crankcase on a cover of a head of cylinders and fix it.

60 Establish the fan fan/muftu, address to Section Removal and installation of the fan with вязкостной муфтой.
61 Establish a casing of the air filter, address to Section Removal and installation of the air filter of the engine.


Model 320d (engine M47)

 REMOVAL

Operations and the instructions operating concerning all engines, are resulted in Section for engines 316i, 318i. In the present Section the differences concerning the engine 320d are resulted only.

1 Remove the vacuum pump, address to corresponding section.
2 Uncover heads of cylinders, address to Section Removal and installation of a head of cylinders/replacements of a sealing lining.

3 Fix a cranked shaft in position ВМТ by tool BMW-11 2 300 or other corresponding core. For this purpose insert a core through an aperture in the block of cylinders over a starter into a flywheel aperture.

4 Fix натяжитель chains in the compressed position. For this purpose turn out the screw with internal hexahedronом around a face wall of the block of cylinders (the marksman on an illustration) and insert core BMW-11 3 340 or other suitable core.

5 Turn away bolts of fastening and remove the top directing chain.
6 Turn away bolts of fastening and remove both asterisks of camshafts. Thus keep shaft for hexahedron. To fixing of a camshaft of inlet valves HUNDRED BMW are applied by tool BMW-11 6 320.
7 Turn away bolts of fastening and remove covers of bearings of camshafts. Put them as installation. Take out camshafts.
8 Take out коромысла from a head of cylinders and also put them on the engine as installation. The inhaling moments are resulted in Specifications.