XM Brakes

DoubleChevron · Unread post by **DoubleChevron** » 13 Nov 2005, 22:06

Hi Guys,

I had a friend turn up last night in his '92 V6 XM (nice !!). We checked it's spheres finding most of them 'dead', both hydractive spheres were full of fluid.

Anyway I took it for a drive and my immediate response was "Damn the brakes are digusting"... "nearly as bad as my Xantias were".... So guys, where have Citroen (in there infinate stupidity) put the spring that is most obviously between the brake pedal and brake valve in RHD V6 '92 XM's. The brakes are appalling and bouncy like a ,... spring

seeya,
Shane L.

AndersDK · Unread post by **AndersDK** » 14 Nov 2005, 07:08

On RHD XM the brake valve is located rather odd ...
- under a cover right behind the engine from above. A linkage connects from the pedal. Dont think the XM had the spring built into this linkage.

With your findings of dead spheres I'm convinced that ALL spheres are dead - giving that odd brakes feeling known with hydractive system.

sdabel · Unread post by **sdabel** » 14 Nov 2005, 11:59

Hi Shane,

Brakes on my XM are very effective at killing speed, better than my CX I think. Once you get over the built in spring

regards
sean

NiSk · Unread post by **NiSk** » 14 Nov 2005, 20:34

Looking at the spare parts diagram for the series 2 XM (RHD) there does indeed seem to be a spring spacer of the same type as on the LHD version -item 4 - its just that it presses upwards rather than forwards.

Check out:

http://ipcxm.free.fr/xm2/page%20de%20titre.pdf

look up "frein et transmission"

there are lots of other goodies on this frenchmans site: http://pepon1.free.fr/

//NiSk