Removing and installing rear brake cable — AUDI

🧭 Before you start

Fits: VW Transporter T5 (7H), VW Transporter T6 (7E)

📋 Procedure

1. Release handbrake.
2. Raise vehicle.
3. Detach return spring (arrow) from underbody and from spring retainer (1).
4. Unscrew spring retainer (1).
5. Unscrew nut (arrow) from cable.

6. Pull compensator off cable.
7. Detach handbrake cable (1) from compensator (2).
8. Unhook handbrake cable (1) from retainer on brake caliper.
9. Unhook handbrake cable from retainers on transverse link (arrows).
10. Press together lugs on handbrake cable (arrows), and push handbrake cable towards rear and out of cable support bracket.
11. Pull handbrake cable out of compensator.
12. Detach handbrake cable (1) from compensator (2).
13. Guide handbrake cable through cable support bracket and attach to compensator.
14. Engage handbrake cable properly in underbody (arrow).
15. Attach handbrake cable in retainers (arrows) on suspension link.
16. Attach handbrake cable (1) to brake calliper.
17. Attach handbrake cable (1) to compensator (2).
18. Fit compensator onto cable.
19. Screw on cable nut (arrow).
20. Screw spring retainer onto cable.
21. Attach return spring (arrow) to underbody and to spring retainer (1).
22. Adjust handbrake .

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