Rear-Wheel Sensors

To Remove
1. Jack up the car and remove the wheel.





2. Press the brake pistons back, using a pair of slip-joint pliers.





3. Remove the brake-pipe bracket from the longitudinal link.
4. Undo the caliper assembly securing bolts and hang the assembly in a cable tie.





5. Back off the adjustment for the handbrake shoes (accessible through a hole in the brake disc).





6. Undo the retaining screw and remove the disc.
7. Unplug the connector on the ABS sensor.
8. Remove the four wheel-hub nuts.
9. Remove the hub complete with backplate. Leave the disc backplate and handbrake assembly hanging on the cable.

To Fit
1. Clean the contact surfaces using a wire brush.





2. Insert the hub inside the disc backplate and fit it to the longitudinal link. Use new nuts and tighten them alternately in opposite pairs.
Tightening torque: 50 Nm (37 ft. lbs.) +30°
3. Plug the connector into the ABS sensor.
4. Fit the brake disc onto the hub, apply thread-locking fluid and tighten the screw.
Tightening torque: 10 Nm (7.4 ft. lbs.)
5. Fit the caliper assembly, apply thread-locking fluid and tighten the bolts.
Tightening torque: 80 Nm (59 ft. lbs.)
6. Fit the brake-pipe bracket onto the longitudinal link.





7. Turn the handbrake adjuster (accessible through the hole in the disc) until the shoes prevent the disc from turning.
8. Now back off the adjuster until the disc spins freely.
9. Fit the wheel and tighten the wheel bolts. The wheel should be off the ground when the bolts are tightened.
Tightening torque: 80 Nm (59 ft. lbs.)
10. Lower the car.
11. Pump the brake pedal to extend the pistons in the calipers.
12. Adjust the handbrake cable, refer to Parking Brake System.