E39 series BMW 5

since 1996-2001 of release

Repair and car operation

Removal and installation of brake shoes of the parking brake

Parking brake


1 — the lever of the parking brake 2 — a cover 3 — a lock-nut 4 — an adjusting nut 5 — a bolt	6 — the switch of the parking brake 7 — a cable 8 — a collar 9 — the holder of a cable 10 — the plug


1 — a cable 2 — a bolt 3 — a support 4 — a brake shoe 5 — the lock	6 — a finger 7 — the adjusting screw 8 — the bottom coupling spring 9 — the top coupling spring 10 — a compression spring 11 — a pin

REMOVAL

1. Remove a back brake disk.
2. Disconnect a forward coupling spring. Check a spring. A spring with traces of a rust replace.
3. Compress a face key of 5 mm a compression spring a little, turn on 90 ° and remove a spring from a block.
4. Similarly remove springs from other brake shoes.
5. Dissolve blocks above and remove them down.
6. Check ease of a course of the lock. If necessary remove it. For this purpose pull a detail (1) down, squeeze out a finger (2) and remove a detail (3) from a cable.

Installation

Brake shoes surely replace on both wheels at once.

INSTALLATION

1. Apply a thin film Molykote-Paste G greasings on sliding surfaces and a lock finger.
2. Enter the lock with a finger (2) into a cable of a drive of the parking brake.
3. Develop the device of adjustment of brake shoes (1). A carving slightly grease “Molykote” and turn again. 4. Establish the device of adjustment of brake shoes from below between blocks. Connect below a coupling spring (2) (a spring of smaller diameter).
5. Insert brake shoes. Above they should enter into lock grooves.
6. Compress two springs of brake shoes a face key of 5 mm, having at the same time turned them on 90 °. Marking is in a closed position on a bolt head, as is shown in an accompanying illustration.
7. Hook nippers on the top coupling spring.
8. Brake shoes (shooters on an accompanying illustration) should adjoin to a support of a brake board.
9. Establish a brake disk and a back wheel. 10. Adjust the parking brake, address to the Section Adjustment of the parking brake.

If brake shoes of the parking brake were replaced, they should be earned extra on the road with not heavy transport traffic as follows:
Since speed of 40 km/h carefully tighten the parking brake so that braking process began. Keeping speed, tighten a brake on one tooth and pass about 400 more m. Release a brake and let's to it be cooled. The specified process extra earnings irrespective of replacement of blocks is recommended to carry out once a quarter since thus from working surfaces of brakes the appeared rust and the postponed products of wear acts in film.