parking brake threaded rod on 90q20v

[rob hod]

    While you're at it you may want to consider putting a new nyloc nut (or
two ) on the rod. When I first got my '88 100 the rear brakes had been
attacked by monkey boys who installed new pads but stuffed up the cable
adjustment. I pulled up the brake lever on the first day I had it and
catapulted the nut off the end of the rod. I grovelled around, found it and
replaced it. Soon as I could I got a new nut and threaded that on behind as
a locknut. this lasted nearly a year until in a hurry one day I pulled up
the handle good and hard and sprung them along the rod but not quite off.
Off I went to the dealer again and got another new nut. Now with two new
nuts locked against each other it seems ok. For now.

    I sometimes wonder if anyone has had a similar problem. Visually my rod
doesn't look stripped, but of course after two of these events there must be
an amount of thread damage. I've never seen it mentioned before but that rod
sure is thin for what it does. Maybe its a BTDT that's never got discussed
before.

    BTW for my car the nut is part number N902 867 03 , is a Nyloc and has a
built in free-to-rotate washer on the side which bears against the
compensator and costs about 0.5GBP. - I wouldn't recommend using any old
nut. And of course I recommend two to be safe

    Cheers,

rob
----- Original Message -----
Message: 11
From: "Beatty, Robert" <BeattyR at ummhc.org>
To: "'Dan Simoes'" <dans at audifans.com>, 20v <audi20v at rennlist.org>,
        quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: parking brake threaded rod on 90q20v
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:37:45 -0400

    snippage ----

I also had to take the console out to get to it, its a bit of a pain to do.
You also need to be under the car as well to make the final adjustments to
the ebrake tension.

Rob

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