Audi A4

since 1994 release

Repair and operation of the car



A4 Audi
+ Running gear
+ Regular servicing
+ Engines
+ Turbo-supercharging
+ System of an exhaust
+ Cooling system
+ Fuel tank and fuel pump
+ Air filter and channels of absorption
+ System of injection
+ Coupling
+ Transmission and main transfer
+ Suspension bracket of wheels and steering
- Brakes
   Independent work on brake system
   So the brake system works
   Check of brakes
   Brake fluid
   Check of level of brake fluid
   Check of brake system on tightness and existence of damages
   Replacement of brake fluid
   Disk brakes
   Measurement of thickness of overlays of forward disk brakes
   Check of a condition of brake disks
   Replacement of overlays of disk brakes
   Back disk brakes
   Measurement of overlays of back disk brakes
   Emergency brake
   Check of idling of the lever of the emergency brake
   Main brake cylinder
   Brake amplifier
   Check of the brake amplifier
   Works on hydraulics of brake system
   Pumping of brake system
   The help at malfunctions
   ABS and EDS
   What does ABS?
   Function of separate knots
   Electronic system of distribution of brake effort (EBV)
   Violations in work of ABS system
   Electronic blocking of differential (EDS)
+ Wheels and tires
+ Electrotechnical equipment
+ System of ignition
+ Lighting
+ Alarm equipment
+ Tools and devices
+ Heating and ventilation
+ body Details
+ Salon
Search of malfunctions
Technical characteristics




Check of idling of the lever of the emergency brake

Cable of the emergency brake on the case of a back brake support

Brake of the emergency brake in the quattro model

1 – emphasis;
2 – control lever (lever of the emergency brake);
3 – nipple of a cable of the emergency brake;

4 – spring clip;
5 – cover of a cable of the emergency brake.

Brake of back wheels in the front-wheel Audi model

1 – cover of a cable of the emergency brake;
2 – control lever (lever of the emergency brake);

3 – emphasis.


 PERFORMANCE ORDER

  1. Operation of the emergency brake has to begin with the third clamp of the lever.
  2. At entry into a groove of the fourth tooth back wheels have to be blocked.
  3. There is a way of the lever longer, it indicates the erased back brake slips or the stretched brake cables as the emergency brake strongly stretched at each parking.
  4. Usually adjustment of the emergency brake is necessary only when replacing a cable.

Replacement of a cable of the emergency brake

 PERFORMANCE ORDER

  1. Lift and record back part of the car.
  2. Weaken the emergency brake.
  3. Dismantle the heat-shielding screen of system of an exhaust in the field of directing a cable of the emergency brake.
  4. For this purpose there can be necessary a dismantle of part of system of an exhaust.
  5. Weaken a cable of the emergency brake on the adjusting device, for this purpose take out the fixing collar of an adjusting element and against the stop put the adjusting clamp.
  6. On the end of a cover of a cable on a brake support wring out a spring bracket and remove a nipple of a brake cable from a control lever.
  7. Only in quattro!: take out a cable of the emergency brake from the back axis directing at height. Squeeze for this purpose a sleeve of the directing.
  8. Now take out a cable from various arms on a back axis and on the bottom of the car and remove it.
  9. At height of the lever of the emergency brake under the bottom of the car wring out a cover of a cable of the emergency brake from the console (use a screw-driver).
  10. Dismantle back part of the average console in salon (the head Salon).
  11. Take out from a yoke cables on the lever of the emergency brake.
  12. Remove brake cables down.
  13. Installation of new brake cables: on a yoke of the emergency brake remove the inserted plastic details if they are (do not put them any more).
  14. Screw-driver record a yoke on average situation.
  15. Establish cables of the emergency brake from below and hang them on a yoke.
  16. Insert a cover of a cable of the emergency brake into the console on the car bottom (under the lever of the emergency brake) and enter into a groove.
  17. Stretch a cable of the emergency brake on the bottom of the car and put on a control lever brakes of back wheels.
  18. Adjust the emergency brake.

Adjustment of the emergency brake

At the left: so the screw-driver fixes on average situation a yoke of the emergency brake.

On the right: a type of the lever of the emergency brake with the dismantled average console (back part):

1 – yoke;
2 – nipples of cables of the emergency brake (3).

Thanks to the automatic mechanism of adjustment of disk brakes the emergency brake needs to be adjusted only after replacement of a cable or a brake support.

 PERFORMANCE ORDER

  1. At least vigorously press once a brake pedal.
  2. Open the emergency brake (the lever of the emergency brake below).
  3. Dismantle an ashtray at back seats in order that there was available a reverse side of the lever of the emergency brake (with a yoke).
  4. Screw-driver record on average situation a yoke on the lever of the emergency brake.
  5. Lift back part of the car from two parties and record.
  6. Weaken a cable of the emergency brake in the adjusting mechanism, take out for this purpose the fixing collar of the adjusting mechanism and put against the stop the adjusting clamp.
  7. Shift the device of rough adjustment in the adjusting mechanism.
  8. Now put the adjusting clamp of the adjusting mechanism until there is visible a groove of the fixing collar.
  9. Again insert the fixing collar.
  10. Evenly stretch in different directions the device of rough adjustment on both covers of brake cables so that brake cables were tense, but the control lever did not rise from an emphasis on a brake support yet.
  11. Take out a screw-driver from a yoke on the lever of the emergency brake.
  12. Three times highly pull the lever of the emergency brake.
  13. Double-check a preliminary tension of cables of the emergency brake: at the weakened emergency brake control levers on brake supports have to rise from an emphasis at most on 1,5 mm.
  14. If a preliminary tension not such, it it is necessary to correct by means of exact installation of the adjusting mechanism.