Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

After performing work on rear brake:

• ◆ Release handbrake.
• ◆ Firmly press brake pedal once.

• Spring plate
• ◆ To remove, press against compression spring and turn through 90°
• Spring
• Brake shoe with lever for handbrake
• ◆ Note different versions =>Parts catalogue
• ◆ removing and installing
  =>Page 46-35.
• ◆ Adjusting handbrake=>Page 46-39

• Upper return spring,
• ◆ Release using special tool 3438
• Lower return spring
• ◆ Grease contact points with lubricating paste, part- no. G 000 650
• Tension spring
• Brake shoes
• ◆ Note different versions =>Parts Catalogue
• ◆ Removing and installing
  =>Page 46-35.
• ◆ Minimum pad thickness 2.5 mm
• ◆ Check thickness

=> Maintenance manual; Description of operations; Front and rear brake pads: check thickness

Brake pads are also available without brake shoes

• Cap
• ◆ Remove to check brake pad thickness
• Spring pin
• Brake carrier
• Hexagon socket-head bolt
  8 Nm
• Wheel-brake cylinder
• ◆ Leak test
  => Fig.1
• Wedge
• ◆ Push upwards through threaded wheel-bolt hole to install the brake drum=>Page 46-29.

• Push rod
• ◆ Note different versions =>Parts Catalogue
• ◆ Before fitting the pads, clean the pad guide surfaces and apply a coat of lithium grease G 052 142 A2.
• Locating spring
• ◆ Release using special tool 3438

→ Fig.1    Checking wheel-brake cylinder for leaks

• ‒ Lift off dust sleeve
• ‒ Replace wheel-brake cylinder if brake fluid is found in dust sleeve.

Take care not to damage dust sleeve when lifting off.