In a hydraulic camshaft adjuster for an internal combustion engine including a
hydraulic operating unit for adjusting the angular position of the camshaft relative
to a camshaft drive by way of a hydraulic control valve with a valve housing in
which a control piston is disposed for controlling the supply of hydraulic fluid
to, and its removal from, the hydraulic operating unit and to which hydraulic fluid
is supplied from the camshaft by way of a pressure channel which is formed into
the valve housing so as to extend along the outer surface thereof and a sleeve
tightly surrounds at least the part of the valve housing which includes the channel
for tightly covering the channel.