Patent ID: 6907660

Claim:
A method of mounting a camshaft onto cylinder head of an internal combustion engine covered by a cylinder head cover, wherein said cylinder head comprises camshaft bearings for supporting a camshaft, and each camshaft bearing includes a bearing support seat formed integrally with the cylinder head and a bearing cap formed integrally with the cylinder head cover, and at least one of the bearing support seats is an assembly bearing seat and its bearing cap is a separate assembly bearing cap with a bearing opening larger in diameter than said camshaft whereby the camshaft can be held on the cylinder head while the cylinder head cover is removed from said cylinder head, said method comprising the steps of: placing said camshaft onto said bearing seats, installing said assembly bearing cap on said assembly bearing seat such that said camshaft is held on said bearing seats with play between the bearing seats and the camshaft and then mounting the cylinder head cover onto the cylinder head whereby said camshaft is fully engaged with said bearing seats and moved out of contact with said assembly bearing cap.