Removing And Installing Brake Caliper Piston - Skoda Kodiaq 2017 Workshop Manual

8 - Piston
❑ Removing and installing
9 - Sealing ring
❑ Removing and installing
10 - Brake caliper
❑ Removing and installing
1.2 Removing and installing brake caliper
piston
Special tools and workshop equipment required
♦ Piston jig - T10145-
♦ Plastic wedge - 3409-
♦ Lithium grease - G 052 150 A2-
Removing
– Remove brake caliper
⇒ "1.3 Removing and installing brake caliper, front brake",
page 51 .
– Insert wooden plate to avoid damaging the piston as it is being
pressed out.
– Press the piston out of the brake caliper housing using com‐
pressed air -arrow-.
Note
Make sure that the cylinder surface is not damaged when remov‐
ing the gasket ring.
– Remove gasket ring with disassembly wedge - 3409- .
Installing
Note
Always install the complete repair kit when repairing the brake
♦
calliper.
Use only methylated spirits for cleaning the brake.
♦
New brake calipers are filled with brake fluid and are pre-bled.
♦
It is absolutely necessary, if repairs are being undertaken, to
♦
pre-bleed the brake calipers before installing them in the ve‐
hicle (without brake pads)
– Clean piston and gasket ring with white spirits and dry off.
– Before installing the piston and sealing ring in the brake cali‐
per, thinly coat with lithium grease - G 052 150 A2- .
– Insert new gasket ring in the groove of the brake caliper.
⇒ "1.2 Removing and installing brake caliper piston", page 83
⇒ "1.2 Removing and installing brake caliper piston", page 83
⇒ "1.3 Removing and installing brake caliper, front brake", page 51
⇒ page 84 .
Kodiaq 2017 ➤ , Kodiaq 2019 ➤
Brake systems - Edition 11.2018
1. Front brake calipers
83