Anti sink sphere connection
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Anti sink sphere connection
I want to change the anti sink sphere on the back of the Xantia as it's the only one that hasn't been done. My question is this. Is there a little rubber seal thing on the pipe union as there is on the rear brake callipers, and if so is it the same size? I'd like to put a new one on if indeed there is one in there, but there seems to be three different sizes available. I could get one when I buy the sphere if I knew the size.
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As far as I remember the union on the anti-sink sphere screws into the sphere without any rubber seal.
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The plot thickens! Thats been my experience too - no seal on the pipe. I assumed it should have had a seal but it was missing on my car;
http://www.andyspares.com/discussionfor ... C_ID=14381
The one on my car was a swine to get to seal properly, it did eventually but needed to be very tight.
As far as I remember the union on the anti-sink sphere screws into the sphere without any rubber seal.
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The plot thickens! Thats been my experience too - no seal on the pipe. I assumed it should have had a seal but it was missing on my car;
http://www.andyspares.com/discussionfor ... C_ID=14381
The one on my car was a swine to get to seal properly, it did eventually but needed to be very tight.
It does have a rubber seal ( on mine a 1995 Xantia ) and you are quite right it is easy to release the sphere without realising the damn thing has a feed pipe to the rear of the sphere! It is a 9m spanner required? Please do not make the same mistake I made as the rubber was stuck in the old sphere so I did not see it missing, so the system leaked. Re fitted the rubber sleeve and all OK.
Citrojim....I still make my point above. All this rubber does is to act as a sealant to the supply of the fluid. If your dealer can not identify this on the parts catalogue this is quite interesting if it is not supposed to be there? So do I have a piece of rubber I inherited from a previous owner? who played around with this car? That now bothers me. Other connnections of this system do have the same piece of rubber.
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