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So you want to flush out your Citroën hydraulic system?
OK, so one last hydraulic article and I will move on to other topics, but I couldn’t let you get away with out telling you about a hydraulic flushing product made by Total called Hydraurincage . We seem to call it Hydroflush over here, but Hydraurincage [...]

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What do you do if your Citroen has a contaminated Hydraulic System?
I know that I have harped on this subject for several articles now, but it is more of a problem than you might think. I found when I worked on Citroens , the cars either caught fire and burned or were abandoned [...]

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Do you think your Citroën has contaminated hydraulic fluid ?
My little video yesterday showed you a simple test to do if the LHM system has a little brake fluid in it. Now I will tell you some of the tell tale signs to look out for when the system might be contaminated.
This may [...]

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Over the years I found that often times a Citroen would come into the shop or a person would send in a set of spheres to rebuild from a car that had a contaminated hydraulic system.
Always bad news to any Citroen owner, this can prove to be one of the most expensive single problems an owner [...]

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On the Citroen SM with 3.0 Liter Maserati engine and 3 speed automatic transmission, it is very important to remember this. If you remove the torque converter for repair, it’s possible when reattaching it to the engine to attach the torque converter to the crankshaft pulley in any one of four positions, only one of [...]

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To all you people who have been asking about my Citroën collection and which ones are my favorites, here is a tour of my mostly French garage.
It Includes:
1971 DS21 , 1981 GSA Break Special, 1956 Traction Avant Normal 11B, 1973 SM with 5 speed manual 3 liter V6 Maserati engine , [...]

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Citroen 2CV Not Starting When Hot?

I recently got asked a question here about Citroen 2CV ’s
and decided to post on it, as many people have asked about
this over the years.
"My 2cv has become very hard to start when it is hot.
I recently replaced the points but on a second check
the gap and static timing seemed to be correct.
Can you suggest [...]

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