Switch - brake light (page 2 of 2)
- Make
- Land Rover
- Model
- Freelander Workshop Manual
- Year
- 1998–2000
- Section
- Repairs
BrakesSwitch - brake light · page 2 of 2
- Remove 2 brake pads and retainers from caliper bracket.
Refit
- Rotate disc by hand and scrape all scale and rust from around edge of disc.
- Scrape rust from pad locating surfaces on caliper.
- Clean dust from calipers using brake cleaning fluid or industrial alcohol.
WARNING: Do not use an air line to blow dust from brake assembly. Do not use petroleum based fluid as damage will occur to rubber components.
- Position bleed bottle, connect bleed hose to bleed screw and loosen screw.
- Press piston back into housing.
- Tighten bleed screw to 10 Nm.
- Remove bleed bottle.
- Fit pad retainers to caliper bracket.
- Fit pads to caliper bracket.
- Lower caliper housing over pads.
- Ensure flats on guide pins locate with lugs on caliper housing. Fit bolt and tighten to 27 Nm.
- Repeat procedure for other side.
- Fit road wheel(s) and tighten nuts to correct torque. See INFORMATION, Torque wrench settings.
- Remove stand(s) and lower vehicle.
- Depress brake several times to set pad disc clearance.
- Check and top-up brake fluid. See INFORMATION, Capacities, fluids and lubricants.
Parts & tools for this job For 1998 Land Rover Freelander
- TOOLOBD2 scannerSearch: OBD2 scanner
- TOOLDigital multimeterSearch: automotive digital multimeter
- TOOLBack-probe test leadsSearch: back probe test leads
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