Removing and installing wheel brake cylinder — AUDI
Removing and installing wheel brake cylinder on Audi: 11 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes S1, 2H
- Opens: brake fluid
📋 Procedure
- Raise vehicle Descriptions of work; Raising vehicle.
- Remove rear wheels.
- Connect bleeder bottle hose to wheel brake cylinder bleeder valve and open bleeder valve.
- Then apply brake pedal actuatorV.A.G 1869/2.
- Following this, close bleeder valve and remove bleeder bottle.
- Remove brake line (1) from wheel brake cylinder.
- Resetting brake and removing brake drum .
- Remove brake shoes .
- Remove bolts (2) for wheel brake cylinder on brake carrier and take off wheel brake cylinder.
- Install brake shoes and brake drum .
- Bleed brake system .
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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