Rear pads and handbrake adjustment on late 9000

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Charles C. - 15 May 2005 21:05 GMT

Hi,

Learned to do the handbrake on the early c900s. I seem to have to learn
to do the same on the 9000 (1997 2.0 :PT model)

A couple of questions.

Is the screw on the rear caliper for winding back the piston easy to
spot? (not enough space for my head in there)?

Setting the handbrake lever travel. Do we just set it using the feeler
gauge on the lever at the caliper? At how many notches would it start
catching and at how many would you expect it to stop traveling?

TIA
Charles

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yaofeng - 16 May 2005 13:47 GMT

Can't help you on setting handbrake. Never did it on my 9k's. The
piston back-up screw is covered by a bolt on the rear caliper.

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Charles C. - 16 May 2005 15:04 GMT

> Can't help you on setting handbrake. Never did it on my 9k's. The
> piston back-up screw is covered by a bolt on the rear caliper.

Thank you. This helps. I was just looking at it.

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Charles

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Dave Hinz - 16 May 2005 15:35 GMT

> Is the screw on the rear caliper for winding back the piston easy to
> spot? (not enough space for my head in there)?

_if_ it's like on a late 80's 900 Turbo, which I believe it is:
There's what looks like a 13mm bolt on the back of the caliper.
That's actually a plug/cap over the adjusting screw.

Back that plug out (13mm socket), and you'll see the adjusting screw.
If I recall correctly, it's a 5mm allen-head, but I don't recall
which way to turn it, maybe somene else here does.

> Setting the handbrake lever travel. Do we just set it using the feeler
> gauge on the lever at the caliper? At how many notches would it start
> catching and at how many would you expect it to stop traveling?

Two clicks before it starts to catch, maybe 3. Top of travel
should be against cable-stretch, rather than against a hard stop
in the handbrake lever.

Dave Hinz

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John B - 16 May 2005 16:08 GMT

> Back that plug out (13mm socket), and you'll see the adjusting screw.
> If I recall correctly, it's a 5mm allen-head, but I don't recall
> which way to turn it, maybe somene else here does.

Counter-clockwise (as the wrench sees it) to back the piston out, IIRC. On a
late 900.

>
> Two clicks before it starts to catch, maybe 3. Top of travel
> should be against cable-stretch, rather than against a hard stop
> in the handbrake lever.

I never got my handbrake adjusted properly, but after driving around for a day
or two it automagically adjusted itself to perfection.

John

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