Peugeot 406

since 1996 release

Repair and operation of the car



Peugeot 406
+ 1. Maintenance instruction
+ 2. Maintenance
+ 3. Engine
+ 4. Cooling systems, heating and ventilation
+ 5. Fuel system
+ 6. System of ignition
+ 7. Coupling
+ 8. Transmissions
+ 9. Power shafts
- 10. Brake system
   10.1. Technical data
   10.2. Pumping of the hydraulic brake system
   10.3. Brake pipelines and hoses
   10.4. Replacement of front brake shoes
   10.5. Replacement of back brake shoes
   10.6. Replacement of back brake shoes on drum brakes
   10.7. Forward brake disk
   10.8. Back brake disk
   10.9. Back brake drum
   10:10. Support of a forward brake
   10:11. Support of a back wheel
   10:12. Back brake cylinder
   10:13. Main brake cylinder
   10:14. Brake pedal
   10:15. Vacuum amplifier of brakes
   10:16. Unilateral valve of the vacuum amplifier of brakes
   10:17. Adjustment of the emergency brake
   10:18. Lever of the emergency brake
   10:19. Cable of the emergency brake
   10:20. Brake shoes of the emergency brake (model with disk brakes)
   10:21. The valve of adjustment of pressure in the brake system
   10:22. Stoplight switch
   10:23. Anti-blocking system of brakes (ABS)
   10:24. The vacuum pump (cars with the diesel engine)
   10:25. Check of the vacuum pump on cars with diesel engines
+ 11. Suspension bracket and steering
+ 12. Body
+ 13. Electric equipment
+ 14. Main malfunctions


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10:13. Main brake cylinder

Removal

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. On some models for improvement of access pick up the air supply phone to the air filter.
2. Remove a stopper from a tank of the main brake cylinder, the filter and pump out liquid from a tank. Disconnect the electric socket from the sensor of level of brake fluid.
3. Remove a bracket of fastening and take from a tank with brake fluid a fastening pin. Remove a tank from the main brake cylinder and take sealing rings from windows of the main brake cylinder. If sealing rings have defects, they need to be replaced.
4. Purify dirt of junctions of brake tubes to the main brake cylinder, enclose rags under places of connections to collect the flowed-out brake fluid. Unscrew nuts of fastening of brake tubes to the main brake cylinder.
5. Unscrew 2 nuts of fastening of the main brake cylinder to the vacuum amplifier of brakes. Take the main brake cylinder from a motor compartment.

Repair

Repair of the main brake cylinder can be made only in the presence of a repair kit of details.

At repair of the main brake cylinder pay attention to an arrangement of all elements repeatedly to establish them on the places.

At assembly of the main brake cylinder grease all details and sealing rings with pure brake fluid.

You make repair of the main brake cylinder according to the instruction attached to a repair kit of details.

Installation

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. Before installation of the main brake cylinder into place check distance from the end of a pusher of the vacuum amplifier to the interfaced surface of the main brake cylinder which has to make 22,3±0,1 mm.
2. Remove all traces of dirt from the interfaced surfaces of the main brake cylinder and vacuum amplifier of brakes and check that the sealing ring correct is established in a back part of the main brake cylinder.
3. Install the main brake cylinder on the vacuum amplifier so that the pusher of the vacuum amplifier entered an opening of the main brake cylinder precisely on the center. Screw nuts of fastening of the brake cylinder on the vacuum amplifier and tighten them the required moment.
4. Clear couplings of brake tubes and install them in the main brake cylinder. Screw connecting nuts the required moment.
5. Establish sealing rings in windows of the main brake cylinder and install a tank with brake fluid on the brake cylinder. Fix a tank by a pin and a bracket of fastening.
6. Fill a tank with new brake fluid and remove air from the brake system.

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