295:Saturday 28th October 2017

Over the last couple of weeks I have been fitting the Air suspension struts to sparky.

 

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I borrowed a 2 post lift from my friend and neighbour Luke for a weekend. On Saturday 14th October 2017 I had my friend Trevor Harding helping immensely.

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Before we could get to the bolts we had to remove the trim panels in the back, but these were held down by the battery pack and it's racking. That was the first hour or so.

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The struts went on fairly easily with a bit of release oil on the threads. Setting up the bottom height was a matter of trial and error to start with. Our friend Duncan Thomas turned up later to see how it was going and helped run the air lines from the rear struts to the valve block at the front.

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On Sunday 14th October 2017, Duncan Thomas came along to help and we got the front struts fitted. After the experience of the rear struts, the front was easy, but ran out of time to do any setting for the bottom height.

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While the drive battery was disconnected, the 12v system was getting no top up, and the battery wasn't great. When I cam to power up the compressor on Saturday it damaged the DC-DC converter so there was no recharging of the 12v system. I connected a mains charger to the 12v system on Sunday when we started and there was just enough juice to do the journey home. I had to order another DC-DC converter and I am still waiting for it to come from USA.

 



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I saw an advert for some LED light strips for the rear lights and bought some from EBay. I fitted these and also installed a new electric aerial only to find I had 2 male connectors in the trunk. I have ordered an adapter with 2 female connector to join these together. That's something to watch out for when buying a universal fitting aerial.