Thread request

vince · Unread post by **vince** » 01 Dec 2008, 12:35

Guys, is there a thread anywhere, or can someone do one on how to clean up and grease up the relevant suspension components. Stuff like the height correctors etc.

Id like to get mine greased up and ready for winter weather

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 01 Dec 2008, 13:06

All I do Vince, is give them a good spary evey now again with a can of spray grease on the height corrector mechanism. If they look rough, douse them in WD40 (despite WD40 being useless for most things, it's actually OK for height correctors) and then, after a few days, coat in spray grease.

Spray grease penetrates well but needs to be replenished quite frequently. Think of the job as similar to winter motorbike chain maintenance.

Don't overdo it though. I used to really saturate mine until I failed an MOT test because the tester, who was not familiar with Xantias, failed it for haveing a "leaking self-levelling valve". Of course it wasn't, he just mistook all the grease for a leak

What we really need is a picture of the bits to grease. I'll see what I can come up with later unless I get beaten to it.

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One very important thing. Apologies for going into "granny suck eggs" mode but ANY work you do around height correctors demands that the car is very firmly supported on axle stands. NEVER venture under an unsuppoorted hydraulic Citroen. They can collapse, crush you and KILL you.
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vince · Unread post by **vince** » 03 Dec 2008, 10:53

this is precisely what im after.....i can spray grease them, but as you mentioned i need to know what it looks like to grease the right bit

Clogzz · Unread post by **Clogzz** » 03 Dec 2008, 12:52

The only picture I've got is this drawing.
Item 1 is the front corrector, item 2 is the rear one.
Both white plastic links, items 6, need a good squirt, and also squirt the metal shafts going from the link into the height correctors.
White means originally white, and won’t be obvious after years of grimy roads.

Thread found in the search for 'plastic link':
http://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/v ... hp?t=23913

citronut · Unread post by **citronut** » 03 Dec 2008, 13:13

its actualy more important to grease the pivoting sections inside each of the cradles, the parts with a spring coiled around them in Clogzz picy, the only part at the nylon links which need any grease it the ball and socket joints at each end of the link's

regards malcolm

vince · Unread post by **vince** » 03 Dec 2008, 18:44

cool thanks guys, i will get it up on the ramps and track them down