Parking Brake System: Adjustments

Adjusting The Parking Brake Shoes

This includes: Checking the free play of the Handbrake lever and adjusting the parking brake shoes. The parking brake cable cannot be adjusted (automatic cable adjustment).

Checking free play of parking brake lever
The parking brake shoes must be adjusted if the parking brake lever can be pulled up by more than 5 teeth through application of medium force without producing a braking effect.

Adjusting the parking brake shoes
1. Remove the rear wheels.
2. Undo the parking brake lever and push back the disc brake pads of the rear axle until the brake disc can rotate freely.
3. The adjustment fixture can be twisted through the bores in the wheel mounting.
4. Turn the brake disc in such a way that the adjustment device becomes visible. Using a screw driver inserted through the bore, move the adjustment device until the wheel can no longer be turned. Next, turn the adjustment device back again through 4 notches (loosen approximately 3 notches until the wheel can be turned freely, then loosen another 1 notch). Repeat the procedure on the other wheel.
5. Pull up the parking brake lever (check free play). If 2 to 4 teeth are engaged, it must be possible to turn both wheels by hand with considerable difficulty.
6. Release the parking brake lever and check whether both wheels can be turned freely.