Hand brake tensioner spring installation?!

[chillo]

Thought i'd best start a new topic (see18x10" wheel thread)

I'm after some help!

Does anyone know the correct set-up/installation procedure for putting the hand brake shoes and tensioner springs together?

I dont have a manual and i'm not 100% how it all goes together!

I've got the tensioner springs (number 6 on p140 of the pdf) techinfo.porsche

Help!

Edited April 12, 2007 by chillo

[Loren]

Perhaps this will help...

[chillo]

Perhaps this will help...

Thanks, thats p140 of the tech info link, i used it to order the springs which had moved or dropped out of place as a result of my removing the stock wheels to fit the 18" carrera wheels.

What im not sure is how they fit in place? Are they awkward to fit? thanks!

Edited April 12, 2007 by chillo

[Loren]

LOL... my image is from Porsche's Boxster Service Manual.

4 and 5 are the return springs. You just put everything in place as shown and use hold down springs (6) to hold them in place.

Center everything the best you can then carefully slide the rotor/drum on. One the rotor/drum is in place it keep everything from flying apart.

When you both side done you will need to go through the individual shoe adjustment using a screwdriver through the hole in the rotor.

With a screwdriver, adjust the adjustment fixture through a threaded wheel bolt hole until the wheel can no longer be turned. Next, turn back the adjustment fixture through 5 notches again (release approx. 3 notches until the wheel can be turned freely, then release another 2 notches).

Repeat the procedure on the other wheel.

You should also adjust the cable tension at the handbrake inside the car. You may have to first release tension on the cable to do the adjustment above.

[chillo]

Looks like i've got the wrong spring!!

(sorry for the poor quality!)

The 2 springs i have been sent are about 10mm shorter than the old one!!

No wonder i was struggling to fit!

Doesnt the rear brake shoes on the boxtser s use the same size springs (longer) and bits as the 996?

[Loren]

The hold-down springs are the same on the Boxster and Carrera - but other parts are not.

Those are just hold-down springs - if the old ones are not damaged then I would reuse them.

[chillo]

The hold-down springs are the same on the Boxster and Carrera - but other parts are not.

Those are just hold-down springs - if the old ones are not damaged then I would reuse them.

The old ones are damaged, the one in the pic i managed to straighten out so i could compare it to the new ones i had just received. The other one is not usuable!

Jasmine Porscha said the same, he thought the springs where the same between models but he said on the carrera they have longer springs so hoping that they would match?

[Loren]

My bad I was looking at the Boxster S. On the Boxster S they are the same as the Carrera.

A standard Boxster is different.