Fiat Ducato 2005 Motorhome

[Thelmond]

Does anyone know about the removal of the rear hub to access handbrake shoes and what is required.

[Robinhood]

Never quite had to get round to it on my last 'van (though I did the front brakes) - and I was happy about this because it looks a s*d of a job.

As you mention "handbrake shoes" I assume you have the rear disc brakes and "drum in hat" handbrake?

To get at the shoes, the cobined disc/drum has to come off, which involves removing the caliper and also the caliper bracket. The latter in particular on mine looked very difficult - a big bolt and absolutely seized - looked like it would need either heat or an impact wrench to get it off.

The disc/drum is held on by spigots, and once removed, the handbrake is a pretty conventional, albeit small, drum brake, with shoes that are replaced in the normal manner.

There doesn't appear to be any self-adjuster or release device on the handbrake mechanism, so it may be a tussle to get the disc/drum off.

The caliper and caliper bracket bolts are self-locking, and it is recommended that these are replaced (though an application of threadlock might do). 

If they are,in fact, drum brakes only, the following will help:

http://www.fiatforum.com/ducato/167638-ducato-rear-brakes-binding.html  

HTH

[Basil]

If you have the rear disc brake fitted it is very simple and much as Robinhood suggests and will require the removal of both the caliper and the carrier which is not in fact very difficult but does require a large size set of 'star' bits (forget the size but available from Screwfix quite reasonably priced). There IS however an adjuster mechanism that is a 'starwheel' that is accessed through any one of the wheelbolt holes and is located at the top of the backplate between the shoes.

You can in fact adjust this manually to take up the wear on the shoes, as said through the wheelbolt hole, without removing the wheel.

 

 

Bas

[Robinhood]

I'm pretty sure the carrier bolts on mine (which was a 2005) required a hex rather than star bit.

Whilst I didn't touch the rear brakes, I had a go at the (absolutely immovable) carrier on the front, when I renewed the pads (I was considering whether the discs needed replacement as one pad had siezed in its mount, and worn (just) to the backing plate.

Luckily, the disc was untouched, (and the caliper was OK) but I was pretty convinced I wouldn't have been able to move the carrier bolt, at least without a good amount of heating, or an impact wrench. 

The post on the Fiat forum that I referenced uses diagrams from the Fiat Elearn manual. I have a copy of that, but it adds little additional info (other than recommended torque settings) over and above what's already been shared.

edit:

(though having checked, the front and rear caliper bracket bolts appear to be different sizes!)