skoda Workshop Repair Guides

Skoda Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

ABOUT US
Repairing rear wheel-brake - front-wheel drive (disc brake) > < Removing and installing brake shoes

Octavia Mk1

Setting the hand-brake (drum brake)
Setting the hand-brake (drum brake)
Resetting of the hand-brake is not required after resetting of the rear brake due to automatic resetting of the rear wheel-brake. Resetting is only required after replacing the hand-brake cable, the brake carrier or the brake pads/brake shoes.
  Note
Always replace self-locking adjusting nut.
–  Release the hand-brake.
–  Remove ashtray in centre console.
–  Release Phillips head screws.
   
–  Tilt the rear centre console, if necessary remove → Body Work; Rep. gr.68.
1 - Handbrake cable
–  Forcefully actuate the brake pedal once.
–  Put the hand-brake lever into the 4th catch.
  S46-0030
–  Tighten adjusting nut -arrow- until both wheels are hard to turn by hand.
–  Release hand-brake and check whether both wheels rotate freely, if necessary release adjusting nut slightly.
  S46-0029

Repairing rear wheel-brake - front-wheel drive (disc brake) > < Removing and installing brake shoes