Parking Brake System: Adjustments

Adjusting Parking Brake Shoes

Includes: Adjusting parking brake shoes and parking brake cables

Checking Free Travel of the Parking Brake Lever

The parking brake is fitted with asbestos-free brake linings. As a rule, the parking brake fitted with asbestos-free brake linings must never be adjusted in such a manner that the lining has to "grind itself free" during operation.

If the brakes do not show any effect when the parking brake lever is pulled up by more than 4 notches using medium force, the parking brake must be adjusted.

Adjusting Parking Brake

1. Remove rear wheels.

2. Release parking brake lever and push back brake pads of rear axle until the brake disc rotates freely.





3. Undo adjusting nuts at the turnbuckle (arrow) until the cables are no longer under tension.

NOTE: Remove the cassette box behind the parking brake lever to gain access to the turnbuckle. The fastening screw is located below the rubber insert.

4. Engage a screwdriver in the hole in the brake disc and adjust the adjuster until the wheel cannot be rotated anymore. Then back off adjuster until the wheel can be rotated freely. Now back off (loosen) by two more notches.

5. Pull up parking brake lever by two notches and turn adjusting nut on the turnbuckle until both wheels can just barely be turned manually.

6. Release parking brake lever and check if both wheels rotate freely.