Method for mounting a valve rain of an internal combustion engine

A valve train of an internal combustion engine comprising a row of cam followers of which each said cam follower is supported on one side on a bottom side on one end by a pivot support relative to a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine and acts on the other end on at least one gas exchange valve and on the other side has at least in a middle section a cut-out in which a roller that runs on a pin sits, wherein said pin is supported in mounts of side surfaces of the cut-out, a camshaft runs parallel to the row of cam followers and the camshaft has for each of the cam followers, a cam or a sliding cam package acting on the roller and the camshaft is supported by an axial bearing relative to the cylinder head of the internal combustion engine, the camshaft loads a row of cam followers that act on identically acting ones of the gas exchange valves for each of the cylinders of the internal combustion engine, wherein each of the cylinders has two of the identically acting ones of the gas exchange valves, and for at least one of minimizing or compensating for an axial thrust of the camshaft on the axial bearing,

• j) one of the gas exchange valves is loaded by one of the cam followers whose said mounts run relative to each other with an offset with respect to a longitudinal extent of the cam follower in the side surfaces such that an axial line of the pin deviates from perpendicular in a clockwise direction, and
• k) the other of the gas exchange valves is loaded by one of the cam followers whose said mounts run relative to each other with an offset with respect to the longitudinal extent of the cam follower in the side surfaces such that an axial line of the pin deviates from perpendicular in a counterclockwise direction, and
• l) wherein the deviations from the perpendicular according to j) and k) are at least approximately equal in magnitude.