Spoke To Soon

[ivan]

Hello guys and girls.

 

Well after praising my xantia that I just bought, its gone and let me down not once but twice, and I need to pick your brains,

 

Just a little info about me first, I am a m.o.t tester and mechanic, I have worked with spanners since I served my time when I left school dam that’s two and a half decades ago,

 

Well as I said in the general section the suspension was shot when I bout this car a week ago so I fixed the leak and as the suspension was still stiff I changed the four corner spheres and bob was your uncle, well I took my daughter out in it tonight and was posing with the high level setting and the low setting while we were parked up,

 

Now the thing is the rear end will no longer rise in any position have any of you any idea what’s up? It’s a none hydroactive.

I am thinking that the sphere at the rear in the centre is at fault, but I know very little about the Citroen xantia as we always turned them away, cause we believed they were a nightmare to work on,

 

The second fault is once you start and run the car for as little as 2 mins then stop it and go for a re-start, it really does not want to start and when it does its as if its flooded, its had a full service by myself and even the throttle body was removed and cleaned up around the butterfly, it’s a R-reg 1.8i

 

I would be very grateful of your help on this

 

Regards Ivan

[iannez]

one of the arms on the rear hight corrector will have snapped causing the suspension fault. there not that expensive. you will find it around the centre of your rear anti roll bar. the starting problem could be anything. was it ok before you cleaned the throttle body. remember to use axle stands when working on suspension or brakes on these cars as the have a habit of squashing people. the 2 parts are ringed in picture.

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w213/iannez_photo/untitled.jpg

[ivan]

hello Iannez

 

and thanks for getting back to me with your reply,

i will look in to this as soon as i get back to work in the new year, unless i get bored over the chrismas madness,

 

was poor starting after first start before i cleaned the throttle body, thats why i gave her the service and cleaned up the throttle body as there was plenty of the muck around were the butterfly rests,

 

no probs with being crushed, i will just put her on the four post ramp at work, thanks for the warning though :) i will post how i get on with her

[ivan]

just to say thanks to iannez.

 

you were bag on with what you said and the detailed pic you posted,

 

had her on the ramp friday and i have freed off the part that was stuckfast causing the self leveling bar to brake by that i mean the one that clamps round the anti-rollbar number three in the pic above.

 

new one orderd fron citroen at £15.00 +vat

 

thanks again iannez

[graywood]

Now the thing is the rear end will no longer rise in any position have any of you any idea what’s up? It’s a none hydroactive.

I am thinking that the sphere at the rear in the centre is at fault, but I know very little about the Citroen xantia as we always turned them away, cause we believed they were a nightmare to work on,

 

I believe this could be either the rear height corrector or really dirty hydraul fluid.

Empty all your hydraul fluid and use Hydraurincage to flush your system.

Probably find more infor on the web.

 

If the heightcorrector is shot, Pleiades have more info on it.

 

But I'd use Hydraurincage first.

Because if it really is the height corrector, the oil is still dirty and the rest of your system will probably go soon.

 

If it doesn't work, well, then you've got a clean system to fit your new height corrector to :)

 

 

 

Edit: I see you solved it, but think about cleaning your system. I bet it could use it.

I do it every couple of years myself.