xantia hydractive how many spheres

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xantia hydractive how many spheres

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been into gsf today and bought 2 front,1 accumulator,2 rear and 2 rear centre spheres.as this is all i can see but after doing some searching on this site seems it might have 8.if so wheres it hideing and whats it called so i can pick it up and do them all at the same time.
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You might have confused yourself on the front :
1 accumulator sphere for the regulator located ON ENGINE
1 center sphere for hydractive suspension located in engine bay - NOT on engine
2 wheel spheres
that's 4 spheres at front
At rear :
1 hydractive centersphere (2 large dia pipes running to base)
1 antisink (SC/MAC) sphere (single 3.5mm pipe running to base)
2 wheelspheres
- total of 8 spheres.
DO NOT mix up the various spheres [:(]
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Hi Anders could you tell me how many a non- hydractive Xantia estate has got. I've changed 3 on the front and have found 3 on the back is this correct? Also is the middle one just called a centre sphere on the rear?
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Hi Alec -
On a NON-hydractive (standard hydropneumatic) sprung Citroen, the rear center sphere is an antisink sphere, identified by it's small dia 3.5mm pipe on the mounting base.
To repeat myself and make it very clear :
HYDRACTIVE center spheres are always identified by their 2 large dia (10mm) pipes running to each wheel, and will have even more smaller piping to the HC etc.
ANTISINK sphere is only found on the rear, and is identified by it's small dia 3.5mm pipe running to a T-distributor.
ACCUMULATOR sphere is always the sphere located on the engine block, on the system's pressure regulator.
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cheers for the reply.
these are the no. at gsf i've bought.please correct me.2 n45354 2 n45370,2 n45334,1 n45322.sorry for being a bit thick but can't see which 1 i'm missing
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N45354 - XM & Xantia hydractive center sphere for rear axle
N45370 - Xantia Est. rear wheel sphere (hydractive models)
N45334 - Xantia Est. front wheel sphere (hydractive models)
N45322 - XM & Xantia hydractive center sphere for front axle
Dave -
You have got 2 rear center axle spheres - you only need 1 (N45354).
If you POSITIVELY know that your Xantia has 2 center spheres under the rear - then the second sphere is NOT a center sphere - but an ANTISINK sphere :
N45356 - Xantia rear antisink sphere
Then you have NOT purchased an accumulator sphere, which is located ON ENGINE :
N45304 - Xantia accumulator sphere
WARNING : Do NOT mix up the above spheres !
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anders thanks for prompt reply
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had the spheres fitted at the garage today but was a bit puzzled when he gave me one back saying it only had 7.so got home tonight and after a while managed to find the 8th.but also noticed that the center front is fitted to the acumulator and acumulator sphere was fitted to the rear center leaving me with a center rear sphere instead of the center front sphere which hasn't been changed.now before i go back to the garage and kick off can the spheres just be swapped over or do they need replacing again once they've been fitted.
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aaarghh [:(!]
some people just should not be allowed ...
well - it's no problem to swap the spheres around for correct fitting.
But I'd use new seals where fitted, just to make sure.
Before you make too much noise - be absolutely 110% sure the spheres are in fact incorrect fitted [B)]
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anders
110% sure,think he must have started with thinking the sphere in the centre of the engine compartment was the centre front sphere(not being able to see the other sphere)then it was down hill from there on.
thanks again without your help might of thought he was right and the suspension was supposed to be this hard.
cheers dave t.
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