Parking Brake Lever: Service and Repair
WM 466119 Removing and installing parking-brake leverPreliminary work for removing parking-brake lever
- Remove center console.
Center console
Removing parking-brake lever
The parking-brake lever -1- is supplied as a spare part, complete with bracket, cover -2- and switch -3- (for warning light indicating that the parking-brake is on).
Parking-brake lever
1. Disengage parking-brake cable -5- at the parking-brake lever. This releases the parking-brake lever -1-.
Pull off plug on switch -3-.
Mounting point for parking-brake lever
2. Remove parking-brake lever and mounting saddle assembly -1- after first removing the fastening nuts -4-.
Installing parking-brake lever
1. Install parking-brake lever -1-. Use new fastening nuts -4- and tighten them to 23 Nm (17 ftlb.).
Mounting point for parking-brake lever
2. Engage brake cable -5-. Connect plug to switch -3-.
3. Remove lock pin on mounting saddle if necessary (only fitted on new parking-brake levers/used to prevent automatic readjustment of the parking-brake cable).
4. Tighten and loosen the parking-brake lever a number of times (due to automatic readjustment of the parking-brake cable). Then check the free play of the parking-brake lever. If there is too much free play, adjust the parking-brake shoes.
Check the free play of the parking-brake lever (permissible value) and adjustment specification of the parking-brake shoes.
Subsequent work after installing parking-brake lever
1. Install center console ( -1- ).
Installing center console
2. Fit rear wheels if necessary (if the parking-brake shoes were adjusted).