Xantia Flood damage

[lurchy666]

ok silly quick question as i dont want to hijack the thread, a where is the breather on the gearbox 110 hdi and does it have a pipe atached to it or anything, as i have a vac pipe (well same pipe as vac pipe) dangling down near the gear linkages not plugged into anything, the other end sits up behind the lhm tank again not attached to anything, any ideas???

[Hell Razor5543]

IIRC (but don't quote me on this) it is on the top of the gearbox, on the engine side. You need to remove the air filter box to see it.

[falling-out-with-my-car]

I have just read your first post again and I missed that this is a fairly late registered Xantia an Hdi so obviously a S2 model
the gearchange setup doensnt sound very much like the earlier S2 xantia's which were a set of metal pushrods with linkages behind the engine.
if it is a cable system there is always the possibility of the cables breaking down inside their sleeves, I note you say it is a sealed hydraulicl clutch, perhaps this is one for the C5 boys as your car seems to be a hybrid of both the xantia and possibly the C5.

[CitroJim]

All 'big engined' Xantias Nigel, used the ML5T gearbox which is hydraulically clutched and cable-changed...

The big engines are the V6, 2.0TCT (Activa), 2.1TD and 110HDi...

[davoxx]

All 'big engined' Xantias Nigel, used the ML5T gearbox which is hydraulically clutched and cable-changed...

The big engines are the V6, 2.0TCT (Activa), 2.1TD and 110HDi...

Was the V6 not different again to everything else? I though that you needed a V6 manual gearbox for an V6 Activa conversion, or is that just because the power will destroy the normal gearbox?

[CitroJim]

Was the V6 not different again to everything else? I though that you needed a V6 manual gearbox for an V6 Activa conversion, or is that just because the power will destroy the normal gearbox?

No, still an ML5T but with different ratios Dav. The bellhousing may be a tad different though...

[davoxx]

Was the V6 not different again to everything else? I though that you needed a V6 manual gearbox for an V6 Activa conversion, or is that just because the power will destroy the normal gearbox?

No, still an ML5T but with different ratios Dav. The bellhousing may be a tad different though...

Soooo ... could I do a manual V6 Activa with just an Activa and a V6 Xantia, presuming I'd just have messed up gear ratios?

[Old-Guy]

ok silly quick question as i dont want to hijack the thread, a where is the breather on the gearbox 110 hdi and does it have a pipe atached to it or anything, as i have a vac pipe (well same pipe as vac pipe) dangling down near the gear linkages not plugged into anything, the other end sits up behind the lhm tank again not attached to anything, any ideas???

Sure it's not the LHM reservoir breather/overflow pipe? The top end goes onto a spigot in the top of the reservoir filler cap; the bottom just dangles....

[ashy90]

Can water get in to any or most gear boxes when driving through large puddles/floods?

I am just wondering if perhaps the Peugeot box in my old Rover died young might be because me and my mates used to drive it through lots of deep puddles etc. (when I haddn't been driving long and did it for a laugh). Started making horrendous noises by just 62k miles.

[Xantidote]

Reminds me, I must check where the air intake is on my Xantia

So what sort of water depths do Xantias successfully cope with?

[falling-out-with-my-car]

I appreciate I may have a diffeent gearbox on my 1998 S2 xantia but I used to drive through a ford (sorry to swear) slowley on a regular basis to clean out the dust on my front brake pads after a long run and I have never had any problems with water getting in the gearbox, I still think this could be something to do with the cables getting wet and seizing or becomming difficult to move are they adjustable at all?

[myglaren]

Water entering the trailing arm bearing tube will be a deferred headache too.

[falling-out-with-my-car]

hopefully a thick large quantity of waxoil in that area will help to prevent this on mine.
I wouldn't do it in the winter though. esspecially if there was a chance of the night freezing the water under the car.

[lurchy666]

ok silly quick question as i dont want to hijack the thread, a where is the breather on the gearbox 110 hdi and does it have a pipe atached to it or anything, as i have a vac pipe (well same pipe as vac pipe) dangling down near the gear linkages not plugged into anything, the other end sits up behind the lhm tank again not attached to anything, any ideas???

Sure it's not the LHM reservoir breather/overflow pipe? The top end goes onto a spigot in the top of the reservoir filler cap; the bottom just dangles....

nope not that as at the minute that pipe ends up in a bottle as the last owber over filled the lhm and every time I drop the suspension the bottle fills up with lhm

[falling-out-with-my-car]

being as the LHM tank is sealed with an o-ring on the lid could it not just be a means to let the tank breathe when you do lower the suspension otherwise the lid might pop off?