power steering SKODA 120 LS 1980 Workshop Manual

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Dissssembly
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Reossembly of Pedols
This is usuolly not necessory. The pedols
con
be disossembled ofter removing the oxiol screw
in the pedol
pin
ond slipping off the return
spring. Do not remove the switches if it is not
obsolutely necessory -
see odiustment. On re-
ossembly, lubricote
the pedol
bush with lubri-
coting greose
of the some brond os used for the
steering linkoge -
see Chopter 7.5, por.3.
Pedol Free Trovel
Adiustment
Adjust the free
trovel of pedols
ossembled
with moster cylinders so thot the pedol piston
rod hos o
cleoronce of 0.5
to 1mm
when beoring
ogoinst the piston
heods of the
moster cylin-
ders. The free trovel of the pedol pod
should be
from 3 to 5 mm. lt
con be odiusted by rototing
the eccentric pin
on the pedol
brocket -
see
Fi9.12.111.
For the odjustment of the broke pedol
with
broke booster ond/or levelling of the broke
pedol with the
clutch pedol,
see Chopter 9.6 -
Ad justment.
Adiustment of Switches The switches con be
moved in
the ellipticol
holes of the brocket ofter loosening the fosten-
ing copscrews with ploin
woshers under their
heods. A pocking piece
should be slipped
under
the switch of the broke pedol
trovel worning
light ond the powl
of the switch pin
should be
held down under the fostening copscrew.
Ad just
the stop-light switch
so thot it
switches on the stop lights ot o pedol
trovel
of 10 to 15 mm meosured on the centre of the
pedol pod.
Adiust the pedol
trovel signolling switch so
thot the pushed-in
side push-button
pin
is
re,ecsed ot o pedol
trovel of 100 to 110 mm
mecsured on
the centre of the pedol
pod.
Press
the push
button into
the switch ofter hoving
completed the
odiustment.
12.2 ACCELERATOR PEDAL AND CABLE
The occelerotor pedol
forms o unit with its
self-lubricoting beoring ond the lever.
lt is
bolted to the f
loor tunnel. A coble possing
through the tunnel is ottoched to the pedol
lever ond the reloy
lever on the engine by
meons of clomps- The coble is protected
by
o Bowden tubing.
Pedol Removing ond Refitting
1. Loosen the clomp holding the coble on the
engine-mounted reloy lever. 2.
Remove the copscrews holding
down the
becrring with the pedol,
depress lightly the
pedol, ond lift it out of the f loor
tunnel together
with the beoring. 3. Disconnect the pedol
from the coble ofter
ioosening the clomp.
Removol ond Refitting of Bowden Tubing
ond Cqble
The Bowden tubing is
fostened to
the brocket
irr the floor tunnel by
meons of circlips. After
their removol, pull
the Bowden tubing inside
the cor. On ref
itting the tubing, lubricote it with
o low-viscosity oil (of
the SAE 20
closs). lt hos
been lubricoted with greose
in the foctory.
Fit
the clonrps so thot their longer ports (from
the
screw to their end) ore on the side of the
I evers.
Accelerotor Coble Adiustment
Adjust the coble so
thot it is not
excessively
tensioned or too slock. Loosen the clomps on
the engine side of the coble, move slightly
the
clomp toword the reloy lever,
ond tighten the
screws of the clomp.
12.3 GEAR SHIFT LEVER
AND LINKAGE
The geor shift mechonism consists of two
units: the geor
lever with its housing ond oc-
cessories, ond the geor
shifter rod
ond the
shifter lirrk with joint
(ot the georbox)
for
domping the vibrotion of the power
pock
tronsnritted to the geor
lever.
Removing Geor Lever
Housing ond Link
1. Lift owoy the mot from the floor tunnel in
the front ond reor comportment. lf seporote,
remove the individuol floor mots ofter hoving
prised out their clips with o screwdriver or
o similor tool. lf o one-piece floor
covering is
used, remove the door sill strips
on one side,
tip the seot, ond bend over the
floor covering.
2. Remove the geor
lever housing copscrews
ond prise
out the lid (next
to the clip) between
the seots. Proceed through the
operture to dls-
connect the bolted connection of the link with
the housing shifter rod.
3. Lift
owoy the housing with the lever
through the operture. Swivel the lever so thot
the shifter rod
does not protrude
over the
housing beoring thus obstructiong the removol.
4. Usuolly it is not necessory to remove the
geor shift link from
the cor. lf
obsolutely necess-
ory, the link con be
disconnected only ofter
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