Removing and installing backplate for drum brakes: VW Jetta VI

🧭 Before you start

Fits: VW Jetta VI (16, 2010–2018); platform code AV2

• Opens: brake fluid

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• Do not blow out brake system with compressed air; the resulting dust constitutes a health hazard! — Clean brake shoe contact surfaces on supporting plate and backplate.

📋 Procedure

1. Loosen wheel bolts.
2. Raise vehicle.
3. Remove wheel.
4. Retract brake
5. Remove brake drum .

6. Remove wheel bearing unit Running gear, axles, steering42Suspension link wheel bearing; Assembly overview - wheel bearings.
7. Remove brake shoes .
8. Remove wheel brake cylinder .
9. Remove bolts (arrows).
10. Remove backplate (1) together with stub axle from axle beam.
11. ⚠ Do not blow out brake system with compressed air; the resulting dust constitutes a health hazard! — Clean brake shoe contact surfaces on supporting plate and backplate.
12. Grease contact surfaces (arrows) with lubricating pasteG 000 650 (qty. 6 around circumference). [Note: Before installing backplate (1), clean threaded holes for bolts (arrows) in axle beam.Threaded holes into which self-locking bolts or bolts with locking fluid have been screwed must be cleaned (e.g. using a thread chaser). Otherwise, there is a risk that bolts will shear off when removed once again.]
13. Bleed brake system .
14. Install wheel and tighten.
15. Adjust handbrake .

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