Peugeot 405 - Repair manual and operation

12.7. Forward brake disk

Check

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. To lift a forward part of the car and to record on supports. 2. To remove the corresponding forward wheel. 3. To slowly turn a brake disk so that it could be considered from two parties. 4. If necessary to remove brake shoes. 5. Measure thickness of a brake disk with use of a micrometer. Wear of a brake disk from blocks has to be in admissible limits. 6. If wear exceeds an admissible limit or there are cracks on a disk, the disk is subject to replacement. 7. If necessary, to clear on perimeter a disk of a rust and brake dust. 8. The indicator of hour type to check a beating of a brake disk. To fix the indicator of hour type in any convenient place and turning a disk to define its beating in several points from its center. 9. If the beating of a disk exceeds admissible limits, the disk is subject to replacement. 10. However failure of the hug bearing can be the cause of a beating of a disk. 11. For check of a beating of inside of a brake disk to remove a brake disk from a nave, to turn it on 180 °, to fix repeatedly on a nave and to measure by the indicator of hour type its beating. 12. Check a brake disk for existence of cracks especially around openings under bolts of fastening of a wheel.

Removal

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. On models with Bendix supports to remove brake shoes. 2. On models with Girling supports to unscrew two bolts of fastening of a support to a nave. 3. To remove a support and using a soft wire to tie it to a forward rack. At the same time not to deform and not to stretch a brake hose. 4. Using chalk or paint to note the provision of a brake disk concerning a nave. 5. To unscrew the screws fixing a brake disk to a nave and to remove a disk.

Installation

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Installation is made in the sequence, the return to removal, considering the next moments. 2. To check that working surfaces of a brake disk and a nave pure and are not deformed. 3. To combine earlier made tags, to establish a brake disk and to fix by screws, having tightened them the required moment. 4. If the new brake disk is established, then, using solvent, to clear it of protective lubricant. 5. Before screwing up of bolts of fastening of a support to cover a carving of bolts with means from unscrewing (Loctite Frenetanch). 6. To establish a wheel and to lower the car. 7. Several times to press a brake pedal that brake shoes were established into position.