Mazda Motor Corporation

Yuzou Uotani

Akihiro Noda

Keiichi Kamimura

Keisuke Yamaguchi

Takeyoshi Iwagami

An engine cover member mounting structure, including: an engine body; a peripheral member arranged on an outer wall of the engine body; a cover member arranged between the outer wall and the peripheral member; and a harness routed between the outer wall and the peripheral member, wherein the harness is held on a surface of the cover member.

Cover member mounting structure for engine

Disclosed is an assembling method for a timing system of an engine to wind a timing chain () around a sprocket () attached to a crankshaft () and a sprocket () attached to a camshaft (). The assembling method comprises the steps of: winding the timing chain () around the respective sprockets () while aligning a reference mark provided on a respective one of the sprockets (), with a corresponding one of alignment marks provided on the timing chain () in associated relation with respective ones of the reference marks; preliminarily assembling, to an engine body (), a chain guide () adapted to be brought into contact with a tight side () of the timing chain (); positioning the crankshaft () and the camshaft () at corresponding reference phase positions; and finally assembling the preliminarily-assembled chain guide () to the engine body (), while bringing the chain guide () into contact with the tight side () of the timing chain () with a given pushing force.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Yuzou Uotani