Chery A series. Manual — part 7

Note: After the belt is taken out, do not rotate

the gear to a large extent, otherwise the
piston head and the valve will be damaged
due to collision. To continue using the
removed belt, carefully check whether
there is abnormal abrasion, stratified
cracks (especially those around the root)
or fouling on the belt. Replace it
immediately even if the slightest suspicion
exists.

TIMING BELT INSTALLATION AND
ALIGNMENT

Check whether the crank shaft is in the TDC
position for the first cylinder. If necessary,
slightly rotate the crank shaft for alignment and
lock it around the flywheel ring gear. Make the
tooth of the timing belt and the gullet of the
flywheel in gear and drag the belt to the right in
an upward vertical direction to enable it to
engage with the cam gear and slot.

When installing the old belt, be sure to keep the
original direction of movement and engage it with
the original engaging teeth. After the belt is in
place, check it and be sure that the positions of
two gears haven’t been changed.

Carefully coil the belt around the tension pulley
to enable it to engage with water pump gear.
Check it again to ensure that the positions of the
two teeth haven’t been changed.

Loosen the two fixing bolts of the tension pulley
to try to push it to the right (seeing from the
direction of pulley) as possible, tighten its two
fixing bolts and loosen the locking device of the
crankshaft.

Rotate the crankshaft clockwise (seeing from the
direction of pulley) for two circles to the
compression TDC position on the first cylinder.

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Hold the middle of the right belt that is away
from both the crankshaft gear and camshaft gear
with the thumb and the first finger. If the tension
of the belt is up to standard, the belt shall be
able to twist at 90°at this point.

To adjust the tension of the belt, loosen the two
fixing bolts of the tension pulley, push the
tension pulley to the right with a screwdriver as
a ram, then fasten the fixing bolts again, rotate
the crank shaft and check the tension again.
Right tension may be obtained after 2~3
adjustments. Fasten the tension pulley with
fixing bolts for a moment of 16-20N. after such
adjustments are completed.

Key

Bush

Bolt: M12*1.5*30
Tightening torque: 52~60Nm

Key

Bolt: M8*25

Tightening torque: 16~20Nm

Tension Pulley

Crankshaft Gear

Timing gear

B-6

DRIVER BELT, TENSION PULLEY AND
GENERATOR

Removal

Pull the abutment on the tension pulley by tools
to the direction of the generator (or align the
gauge holes on the front and rear part of the
tensioning device and drive a pin to fix the
tensioning device).

Remove the driver belt and the two fixing bolts
on the generator to take the generator out.

For installation, reverse the above removal
steps.

Tension pulley and Generator Bracket

Removal

Remove the three fixing bolts on the belt tension
pulley to take it out.

Loosen the connecting nuts on the cylinder head
and binding bolts on the cylinder block on the
generator bracket.

For installation, reverse the above removal
steps.

DETERMINATION OF ENGINE TIMING
（TDC FOR CYLINDER 1）

Unscrew 2 M6 bolts to remove upper timing gear
cover. Put one wrench on the bolts of crank
pulley, rotate the crank shaft clockwise (seeing
from the direction of pulley) until the top dead
center (TDC) gap indicator on the pulley lines up
with the TDC indicator (O) on the bottom timing
gear cover.

Note: The spark plug can be taken away

before rotating the crank for labor
saving.

B-7

Check whether the TDC indicator on the cam
shaft gear lines up with that on the front end of
cylinder head. If not, rotate the crank shaft
clockwise in one full circle to make them line up
with each other. At this time, the engine is in the
position of TDC of the first cylinder.

In case the crank pulley and timing gear have
been removed, the TDC for the first cylinder can
be determined as follows:

Rotate the crankshaft to make the TDC indicator
on the crank pulley line up with that on the oil
pump body. Check whether the TDC indicator on
the cam shaft gear lines up with that on the front
end of cylinder head. If not, rotate the crank shaft
for one circle to make the cam gear indicator line
up with that on the cylinder head.

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