Flacid front bits

[CaM]

Hi guys,

I just got back from having a look at a really tidy UK import non turbo diesel bx that a friend is looking to purchase. Late model with the latest tail lights and stuff. It's done 221000MILES but you'd never know it'd cracked 100k. MINT inside apart from a tear in the dirvers seat. even the panel under the windscreen is in one piece! I can barely believe it!

However, there's one niggly problem with it.The front takes forever to rise. The current owner just spent $350NZD with the local citroen guy only to be stung with a new accumulator sphere that I believe wasn't required, and the front height corrector fettled with and left so that the normal running ride height is about 2 inches off the lower stops! That's just adjusment , but the slow rising baffles me.

I'm thinking that the Height corrector's got an obstruction, as he said that sometimes it will rise normally, others, not at all. the rear end functions as normal, and the pump clicks in and out normally.
brakes and steering function perfectly, too, so I'm thinking the FDV is working ok.
Cant see any crimped/squashed piping.
LHM level is too high if anything

So, should I tell him to whip the corrector off the front, and clean it up, or is there another likely scenario?

[kiwi]

Front Height Corrector it sounds like to me as well.

Either it is sticking (needs a clean) or it is knackered.

Its funny how everyone who claims to be a Citreon specialist is quick to jump at changing the accumulator sphere for this kind of problem when the front HC in my opinion is the first thing to look at.

[Way2go]

Sounds like the linkage rather than the height corrector itself. I found just greasing did not help either.

Use 3in1 penetrating oil spray over ALL joints and bush of the linkages from ARC to HC, some Citerobics then squirt lithium spray grease over all the joints previously covered.

You will need to spray from above the HC and also from below the car to get it in the right places but it is well worth it and cured mine when it became a slow riser!

[CaM]

yeah it baffles me. said 'specialist' is usually reasonable in his diagnosis too. poor guy when i told him that the guy would have paid less than $80 for the sphere and it takes 5 minute to change it. and the price he paid for a litre of LHM!??!?!? jeeeeeeze.
also they still rise fine with a shot sphere from what I've seen
weird.

anywho, apparently the linkages have had a going over. Will check that all out anyways, plus we've got to adjust the ride height and all that so it'll be made to be ship shape.
mate has bought the car and we're changing the height corrector tomorrow evening. I'm about to go pull a spare I have to bits and clean it all up to make sure it'll go on nicely.
great

thanks guys love the knowledge factor on here.

[kiwi]

You was very lucky if I had a Trademe account still that Car would have been mine.

[kk-kolonel]

na - it wasn't sold on trademe - I am the poor bastard who is buying it...

[kiwi]

na - it wasn't sold on trademe - I am the poor bastard who is buying it...

Racing Green Diesel I saw one on Trademe so figured it was that one? Mileage was the same only in KMs not miles but then trademe does not give the option of miles so any easy mistake.

[kk-kolonel]

oh.. maybe it was the same one then - the guy I am buying it off doesn't normally sell anything on trademe.. Could be wrong though..

[kiwi]

Has it got a ding on the front passenger wing?

If it is the same one I know where there is the same coloured car and I think model being dismantled it has that wing.

[kk-kolonel]

oh yes this is exactly the car then - whereabouts is this car you speak of??

[kiwi]

oh yes this is exactly the car then - whereabouts is this car you speak of??

Confused are you refering to the car I know of thats being broken?

Its in Hamilton

[CaM]

different car to the green one which was on trademe. that one was a turbo. this is not.