Hello,
My van is 2006 late model X244, the very last of the "old shape" Ducato. It's on the Fiat Maxi 1800kg payload chassis, with the "drum in hat" type rear brakes, where you have a disc brake on the outside as usual for the main brakes and a small drum brake in the centre that's just for the handbrake.
I'm slightly confused over the correct adjustment for the handbrake shoes. The Ducato manual I've got, which is a copy of the Fiat E-Learn system, details the procedure twice - first one says the correct adjustment is to turn the adjuster for 10 teeth, though from the tolerance indicated you could allow more:-
The second set of instructions, for the same page, are exactly the same but say "Valid for versions with disc brakes" - despite the fact that the first set of instructions are also clearly for vans with disc brakes! - this one says to rotate the toothed wheel by only 5 clicks:-
Any ideas which one is right? Or are you just better off just adjusting the shoes in until the drum/disc can rotate freely, and not get too hung up on how far you rotate the adjuster?
My van is 2006 late model X244, the very last of the "old shape" Ducato. It's on the Fiat Maxi 1800kg payload chassis, with the "drum in hat" type rear brakes, where you have a disc brake on the outside as usual for the main brakes and a small drum brake in the centre that's just for the handbrake.
I'm slightly confused over the correct adjustment for the handbrake shoes. The Ducato manual I've got, which is a copy of the Fiat E-Learn system, details the procedure twice - first one says the correct adjustment is to turn the adjuster for 10 teeth, though from the tolerance indicated you could allow more:-
The second set of instructions, for the same page, are exactly the same but say "Valid for versions with disc brakes" - despite the fact that the first set of instructions are also clearly for vans with disc brakes! - this one says to rotate the toothed wheel by only 5 clicks:-
Any ideas which one is right? Or are you just better off just adjusting the shoes in until the drum/disc can rotate freely, and not get too hung up on how far you rotate the adjuster?