Handbrake; Check The Free Play Of The Handbrake Lever - Porsche Boxster 1999 Technical Manual

Maintenance
Boxster
4. Remove the oil filter element.
Handbrake
Check the free play of the handbrake lever
The handbrake has asbestos-free brake pads.
The handbrake with asbestos-free brake pads
must never be adjusted so that the pad has
to "grind free" during operation.
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The handbrake must be adjusted if the hand-
brake lever can be pulled up by more than 4
teeth with medium force application without a
braking effect being apparent.
Adjusting the handbrake:
1. Remove the rear wheels.
2. Undo the handbrake lever and push back the
disc brake pads of the rear axle until the
brake disc can rotate freely.
1. -Oil filter housing
2. -Filter element
3. -Sealing ring
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Tightening torques:
Oil drain plug on
oil pan
50 Nm (37 ftlb.)
Oil filter on
crankcase 25 :t 1 Nm (18 :t 1 ftlb.)
The oil change quantity (with filter change) is ap-
prox. 8.25 I.
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Printed in Germany -8, 1996
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