Id like to get mine greased up and ready for winter weather
Thread request
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Thread request
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
Id like to get mine greased up and ready for winter weather
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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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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.
[lecture]
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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Jim
Runner, cyclist, time triallist, duathlete, Citroen AX fan and the CCC Citroenian 'From A to Z' Columnist...
Runner, cyclist, time triallist, duathlete, Citroen AX fan and the CCC Citroenian 'From A to Z' Columnist...
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
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
Last edited by Clogzz on 03 Dec 2008, 13:13, edited 1 time in total.
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