hi guys,
Man i was aching in every muscle on Sunday from all that scambling around the car! The car does drive alot better, much tighter, those struts are a bit creaky at times though Robin! I'll see if it works itself out with some aerobics etc. This morning I greased the outer shiney bit under the strut gaitors and did the old sucking up fresh LHM through the returns behind the struts, they're pretty smooth now but creak quite a bit at the top going into high, and occasionally lots of creaking when turning the wheels reversing, manouvering etc. The ride seems pretty good though, although i still suspect its riding a little low for some reason, quite often hitting the end of travel over speed bumps, maybe i'm just a speed freak! i'll get under and check the height at some point. The bushes don't seem to affect softness apart from it feeling tighter. We tightened them up when car was in normal ride height which i thought should be the best approach so theres no strain on the rubber when in normal. Not sure what the official Citroen recommended approach should be?
Anyway, well happy with all the stuff we got done. Thanks again Robin.
I'd like to get my sphere pressures tested on the front, they're only just over a year old, but i'd be curious just to know everything is up to scratch.
The other thing was the height correctors - although they seem to be working fine, we did plan on changing the front one - we suspect they may be gunged up from the crap that came out the system a while back after hydraflushing. I have a new height corrector but we couldn't see how to get a spanner on the unions and actually turn it to detach the pipes without removing stuff from around it.. access on this car is not great for that part - the subframe is pretty hefty down there and everything is crammed in.
The only thing Robin spotted was the back one seemed a little sticky in either high or low, can't remember which. But we lubed them up anyway.
My next job really should be flushing the rad, i still havn't eliminated the small bubbles in the expansion tank, and they only appeared after i fitted a new hose and probably didn't bleed properly but the old girls been good for a couple of thousand miles with some pretty enthusiastic 100 mile an hour driving - er on Robin's private racetrack. So we both reckon (hope
) its not the head gasket.
My ex-citroen mechanic uncle said he stripped quite a few turbo diesel heads down suspecting a head gasket failure to find nothing wrong, and then it would be fine when all done up again. So he developed a technique going round the head bolts and establishing the correct torque - often on cars some of them would be alot looser than others... He'd do them all up to the correct torque and that often cured problems of small gas-in-coolant symptoms.
So a good time had by all and one more bx driving as it should.
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again!
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