Xantia- Hydraulic Circuit Safety Valve

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lancia58
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Xantia- Hydraulic Circuit Safety Valve

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Hi

What is the function of the Hydraulic Circuit Safety Valve ?

Thanks
Zohar
Xantia 2.0 16V Automatic make year 2000 LHD
Citroen C4 THP Automatic make year 2009 LHD
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citronut
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Re: Xantia- Hydraulic Circuit Safety Valve

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the function of the safety valve is to give the brake circuit priority over the suspension circuit,

the hydraulic pressure feeds straight through the safety valve with no restriction at all, and the pressure has to build up enough to open the valve before feeding the suspension,

it also has the main pressure switch that puts the STOP light out on reaching working pressure

were are you located Zohar
Regards, malcolm.

current ride a BX 1.7 TZD estate
1986 MK1 BX 1.9na D Auto(in Mothman Andy's stable )
layed up roppy 1.9TD XANT estate, now gone to meet her maker
purple and lilac metalic 2CV(VIOLET)registered to her in doors
1972 DS special been layed up aprox 31 years