In the course of removing a r/h driveshaft, I went to slip the lower balljoint out of the suspension: I've done this on previous BXs to allow enough...
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I will also say use a nut splitter I have a few and they are so usefull especially when removing bits in scrappers . 8)
Im confused. Yesterday after working on the BX cosmetics, it failed to start, and even though there was fuel in the filter, the filter was below carb...
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I hope you weren't driving it when the bonnet blew off --- that would be pretty scary !
If you get a chance sometime can you post a pic of the...
Hi, I have just ordered a new sony car cd player/mp3 and all that stuff....
I may fit it in the next few days. I don't really want to cut off either...
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:P Thank you very much...for all that good advice. I got a multimeter to be sure about the connections and connected the switched supply from the...
I 've had the cambelt tensioner fail. The cambelt is still on, but is loose.
Like Andycadabra, this happened at a low speed, and the symptoms were a...
While supergluing the engine backtogether after a long time standing (and sliding off supports thank to the 'fake asphalt' ground the car is standing...
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Impossible to say without seeing the car really.
But in all probability, I fourth it.
Sorry mate, although despite all the doom sayers insisting...
Does anyone know where you can buy camshaft oil seals for the distributor side? Ive asked GSF and AEP autoparts, and called two local shops, both of...
Hi all. The ticket is due on the GTI on friday and I've got a bloody great crack where the front box joins the front pipe. Its been repaired already...
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Vanny, Mat came up this morning and left with a spare (non-BX) exhaust. Hopefully there will be a way of cobbling something together to get his car...
As it says, the tgs one sticks at 40mph and wont go above it, you then have to give the dash pod a good hard tap for it to go back to zero even when...
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6am this morning went to get the TRS out of its Garage and what a bugger it was to start, time for a service me thinks.
I think i need a new Radiator Hose, Citroen part no., 9S 634 779. A long one from the bottom of the Radiator left, to the top right and with a little...
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Quinton Hazell used to do some BX hoses - and your friendly local spares shop or a factor may be able to get one.
Car started knocking from nearside front suspenion area this morning.Sounded like a CV/driveshaft knock.Seeing as I was on afternoons and in the...
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Noise more or less stopped this morning.Went to Ken's feeling rather sheepish/foolish :oops: :oops: :oops: He checked the CV joint and there wasn't a...
The TZi that I'm currently ripping the mechanical gizzards out of and refurbishing also managed to rot a hydraulic pipe off in a strange place; just...
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OK, reorganised the (rubber) plumbing and all is well.
Got everything back in and just into the final adjustments and fitting any vagrant hoses and...
Often hearing suggestions about use of vinegar in car repairs. Has anyone here ever successfully used it?
Reason I ask is that when I had the sheared...
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Hi Alan,
It seems that you have used the vinegar straight from the bottle, on parts off the car.
Like most chemical reactions they work faster when...
Considering the number of people on here who have done this conversion on a BX, it's well worth asking about....
The TZD's aircon system is of...
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This is the stuff that's got the Industry nervous. particularly DuPont who have made a fortune out of having a monopoly on ozone depleting gases for...
Hi Guys URGENT,
Need your thoughts and solutions to a problem experienced today.
Was on the return of a long journey and the lhm+Stop lights came...
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Well, the strut has arrived from pleides :D and with transport/assistance kindly being provided by brother-in-law I am off to do the roadside removal...
Hello all this about getting the level correct when the box is up to temperature. The problem is that if the level is correct when hot and I take it...
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They never learn some of these characters do they?
We had a case over here where a guy who is an engineer bought a Xantia that had just been serviced...
I am considering putting a new set of 185 profile tyres on a set of good steels from a GTi and putting them on my TGS. Can I use the same bolts from...
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For some time I've been buying Continental Eco whatsits for both the ZX and the TD BX Estate - which are both on 175 65 x 14. I recently put the...
Hi Guys , although I have deserted the ranks of BX owning I still have a Citroen 1.7 D camper. It only starts on 3 on cold mornings so I went to...
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Go very steady with stuck glowplugs. I broke a large chunk off the cylinder head on my Sister's ZX D at Christmas :shock: Fortunately we were able to...
Right err ok does anyone know how the metal ring that protrudes slighty out of the filler on a bx is fixed on please, is the metal ring with two cut...
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Managed to get one from the local citroen dealer after I went down there and showed them what parts I need on the pc. Cost £15 all in all.
I'm presently doing some work on a BX TZi owned by a family friend (of the female variety - thought I'd mention that to explain what some have...
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Hello Alan a couple of sillies really , I dont know anything about the petrol engines. If it has a distributor how about the bob weights and could it...
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