Dads Bx lost all its fluid

richardd1652 · Post by **richardd1652** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:11 pm

My dads BX14re has lost all its fluid. It was too dark to see tonight what has happened and there was no visible puddles underneath .Im going up in the morning to have a better look .
Richard.

johnbird · Post by **johnbird** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:51 pm

did you find the fluid?

richardd1652 · Post by **richardd1652** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:21 pm

Ive been scrabbling around this morning and it looks very wet under n/s/r suspension area.Trouble is its on gravel and it doesnt really show up any wet patches.He picked my Mum up from the bus stop in the village( about 1/2 a mile from their house) and said the stop lights came on.But as it was pouring down he would get me to look at it later. When i went up the next day it had dropped completely onto its bump stops and had an empty resovoir tank and showed no signs of wanting to pressure up.
I think the only coarse of action is to get it recovered to the garage and over the pit to take a better look.
Richard.

nige · Post by **nige** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:31 pm

it could well be a case of pipe popped off! the rubber ones loose their grip, cut back half an inch and put it back on

richardd1652 · Post by **richardd1652** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:50 pm

I think to lose so much fluid in such a short time must mean its a high pressure pipe thats blown ?
Its going to Ray Calvert(C+C motors in Bradford )who is a Citroen specialist who has many a weird Citroen kicking about like an Ami,GSa Ds,s etc and a really decent guy so it will be sorted im sure. But i will post the findings when we get it their.
Richard.

Post by **docchevron** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:56 am

pipe or the cylinder wall corroded probably..

citronut · Post by **citronut** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:40 am

i would go for the cylinder wall also,

my wife got on a single deccer bus a year or two ago and there was a pop/bang and one corner sunk to the ground, turned out to be an air bag had poped (no not the wife )

regards malcolm

electrokid · Post by **electrokid** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:25 am

Does sound like cylinder wall as a first guess - I had OSR go a few years back and it got rid of the LHM pretty quickly.

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:54 pm

citronut wrote:i would go for the cylinder wall also,

my wife got on a single deccer bus a year or two ago and there was a pop/bang and one corner sunk to the ground, turned out to be an air bag had poped (no not the wife )

regards malcolm