Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Special tools and workshop equipment required

• ◆ Hook 3438

Removing

• ‒ Remove brake drum => Removing and installing rear brake, 46-22.
• ‒ Remove wheel hub with wheel bearing.

=> Running gear, FWD; Repair group 42; Servicing wheel bearings; Removing and installing wheel bearing/wheel hub unit

• ‒ Remove spring plate with spring.
• ‒ → Lever out the brake shoes behind the lower support plate -A- in direction of arrow.
• ‒ Set the brake shoes aside on the lower support plate.
• ‒ Disengage lower return spring.
• ‒ Detach brake shoes.

• ‒ Disengage handbrake cable.
• ‒ Clamp brake shoes in vice.

• ‒ → Remove tension spring -1- for wedge -2-.
• ‒ Remove upper return spring -3- using special tool 3438.

• ‒ → Release locating spring -1- using special tool 3438.
• ‒ Remove the push rod -2- and the wedge -3- from the brake shoe.

Installing

• ‒ → Engage locating spring -1- in the push rod -2- using special tool 3438.
• ‒ Insert the wedge -3- at the same time.

Installation position:

The raised area -arrow- must remain visible when installed.

• ‒ Insert brake shoe with brake lever in push rod.

• ‒ → Engage return spring -3- using special tool 3438.
• ‒ Engage tension spring -1- for wedge -2-.
• ‒ Position brake shoes on pistons of wheel-brake cylinder.
• ‒ Engage handbrake cable at brake lever.

• ‒ → Engage lower return spring and lift brake shoes onto lower support -A-.
• ‒ Engage tension spring for wedge.
• ‒ Insert compression spring with spring plate.
• ‒ Install wheel hub with wheel bearing.

=> Running gear, FWD; Repair group 42; Servicing wheel bearings; Removing and installing wheel bearing/wheel hub unit

• ‒ Install brake drum.
• ‒ Firmly press brake pedal once.
• ‒ Adjusting handbrake =>Page46-39.