1. Place the vehicle on jack stands.
Attention! There is a risk of injury when the vehicle is jacked up or placed on jack stands. Familiarize yourself with the provisions of the chapter «car jacking».
2. Remove the lower protection of the car, see relevant chapter.
3. Fully release the parking brake.
4. Loosen the locknut 1 and unscrew the equalizer 2 on the leash 3 of the parking brake cables (see illustration).
Vehicles with rear wheel disc brakes
5. Unscrew on both back wheels on one wheel bolt of fastening.
Attention! If the rims are made of light metals, then the wheels should be removed.
6 Mark with paint the position of the rear wheels on the hubs. This will allow the assembly to set the balanced wheel in its original position.
7. Loosen the wheel bolts. The vehicle must be on wheels during this operation.
8. Install the car on the goats and, having unscrewed the wheel bolts, remove the rear wheels.
9. Rotate the wheel so that the bolt hole is at an angle of approximately 45°relative to the rear of the body (see illustration).
10. Using a 4.5 mm screwdriver, turn gear 1 of the adjuster through the wheel bolt hole until the wheel can no longer be turned by hand, (see illustration).
Attention! The gear of the adjusting mechanism of the right wheel should be rotated with a screwdriver from front to back, the left wheel - from back to front.
11. Turn the adjusting gear back until the wheel rotates freely.
Remember that the adjusting gears of the right and left wheels should be unscrewed by the same number of teeth, i.e. 5-6.
12. Adjust the parking brake on the second wheel in the same way by turning gear 1.
13. Screw equalizer 2 onto the parking brake cable end until the wheels cannot be turned by hand (see illustration 8.4).
14. After that, unscrew the equalizer 2 on the tip of the parking brake actuating cable rods so that both rear wheels turn freely (see illustration 8.4).
15. Tighten and release the parking brake lever several times.
The parking brake is adjusted correctly if the force applied to the parking brake lever when it is moved to the first tooth of the sector is about 110-150 N (11-15kg).
16. Tighten lock nut 1 and fix equalizer 2 on cable end (see illustration 8.4).
17. Check if the wheels turn freely when the parking brake is released. Otherwise, the parking brake adjustment must be repeated.
18. Install the lower underbody protection, see relevant chapter.
19. Wheels with discs made of light metals. Install the wheels according to the marks made during removal.
Before doing this, lubricate the centering seat of the wheel disc on the hub with a thin layer of grease.
Do not grease wheel bolts. Replace rusted bolts with new ones.
20. Screw in bolts of fastening of wheels and lower the car.
21. Tighten the bolts in a cross pattern to 110 Nm.