Citroen BX TZD Turbo Break
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Agreed. Actually I'm feeling very anal about the BX after seeing these photos. I don't wash it that often (in fact the last time was before the 2007 National!) but if they've been out gritting I will spend a couple of minutes with a hosepipe rinsing the salt from the wheelarches and sills.DavidRutherford wrote:Plus it's a Land-Rover. It's against the law for them to be clean.
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DavidRutherford wrote:
Plus it's a Land-Rover. It's against the law for them to be clean.
I wish I'd taken photo's of my pair of beasts when I used to let them get REALLY dirty....
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It was reasonably easy, but not totally without drama. Here is the precise moment that The Man Rutherford realised he was going to have to whip his welder out and waggle it around in my BX's frilly knickers.
At some point it's been jacked up badly, split the seam that runs the length of the sill and let rust take a hold. This is the passenger side - there was a similar hole on the driver's side too.
There was also a length of knackered fuel line to be replaced and some cable-tie action on a recalcitrant steering rack boot and all is well.
This during the 700 miles driven during eight days of Christmas holiday.
It was reasonably easy, but not totally without drama. Here is the precise moment that The Man Rutherford realised he was going to have to whip his welder out and waggle it around in my BX's frilly knickers.
At some point it's been jacked up badly, split the seam that runs the length of the sill and let rust take a hold. This is the passenger side - there was a similar hole on the driver's side too.
There was also a length of knackered fuel line to be replaced and some cable-tie action on a recalcitrant steering rack boot and all is well.
This during the 700 miles driven during eight days of Christmas holiday.
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Yeah I had a patch in exactly the same place, along with bent jacking point guides.
sideskirt had to come off too............bad times
sideskirt had to come off too............bad times
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The one and only time I've let a tyre fitter jack up the BX, they bent the lip at the bottom of the sill, in exactly the same way. Fortunately noticed afterwards and a bit of seam sealant, straighten and underseal later it was sorted. They couldn't actually get the wheel off either without my help - it was the rear tyre and a 195 width...no chance with the suspension on normal!
Well done with the MoT Stu.
If anyones got any suggestions as to how to avoid bending the remaining three good jacking points on my TRD? I hate jacking up any BX now.. oh, and also how to straighten the bent one?
I think it's almost impossible for the home mechanic to jack up a BX repeatedly and not damage it unless you've got big rubber blocks. Every BX I've seen had bent jacking points - my TRD had really good straight ones and I jacked it up really carefully using a wood block between the jack and the car and lo and behold if it didn't just bend. I think it's a design flaw which if the car's always being professional workshop maintained never reveals itself. Other vehicles I've worked on had much stronger, larger areas for the jack.At some point it's been jacked up badly
If anyones got any suggestions as to how to avoid bending the remaining three good jacking points on my TRD? I hate jacking up any BX now.. oh, and also how to straighten the bent one?
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Get a trolley jack todd (if you haven't already) and use a block of wood and jack under the front subframe mounts. On the rear, there is a small flat area of rear subframe by the sill (a short length of 3x2 is ideal).
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To jack up a BX without damaging it you need to not use the front and rear sill jacking points: They should ONLY be used with a 4-point-of-contact lift, like the one pictured above. If I'm using a trolley-jack on a BX I use either the front subframe where it bolts on to the floor (as Bandit mentioned above), or the rear axle tube for the back.
Also, don't ever try to use the BX standard jack in the centre sill mounting to put one side on stands, and then the other. I've seen the aftermath of that, and it wasn't good.
Also, don't ever try to use the BX standard jack in the centre sill mounting to put one side on stands, and then the other. I've seen the aftermath of that, and it wasn't good.
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