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    Did Your Citroen Traction Avant Fuel Gauge Stop...

    Please advise how to access the fuel tank sending unit on a 1956 Citroën Traction 11BL. Either I have lost the electrical connection or the ground, or maybe the float has sunk to the bottom of the tank.
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  • Jack Stands and Jacks – Where to Position...

    Question This question came in recently, pertaining to the placement of jack stands and garage jacks under the car… I just read your tip about getting under the car to check transmission worries, and you said to be sure to use jack stands. 1- where do I use my garage jack to lift the car? 2-...
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  • CX Pulsing Brakes After Pad Replacement

    Recently we have gotten several questions about Citroen CX brakes. Most often it is a case of the person replacing the pads on their front brakes, but not having replaced the rotors.
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  • Finding That Part For Your Classic Citroen

    Ever have a classic Citroen that you are working on and go into a modern day auto parts store looking for a set of spark plugs for it?
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  • Bleeding Rear Brakes On Hydraulic Suspension...

    How to properly bleed down the rear brakes on a Citroën with hydraulic suspension.
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  • My Citroën SM Has An Inoperative Clutch

    Question I recently purchased a 1972 Citroen Maserati that starts and runs. Problem is the clutch seems inoperative. The person selling the car for the owner claimed that the last time the car was driven, the clutch stopped working. The pedal seems to operate correctly and the slave cylinder...
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  • My 1987 Citroën CX Has Intermittent Hot Stall.

    My car is an 1987 Citroën CX that has an intermittent stall when the engine is hot. It starts straight away from the ignition switch. It doesn't happen all the time.
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  • Removing A Citroën-D Series Door Handle

    "I am at a loss as to how to access the outside rear door lift handle assembly for removal. While attempting to press out a small dent surrounding the outside door lift- handle using a lever through the window glass slot I dislodged one of the "bobby pin" shaped flat springs from the backside of...
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Posts tagged Citroen Club of North America

Common Citroën Tool Definitions

Feb 8th

Posted by Denis in Citroen

3 comments

Recently Citroen Club of North America member Randall Jones sent in this
interesting list of tool definitions. Most of us who have worked on Citroën
cars can identify with it. Enjoy!
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DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat
metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and
flings your soda across the room, splattering it against that freshly-stained
heirloom piece you were drying.

WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under
the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and
hard-earned guitar callouses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say,
‘Yeouw….’ More >

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The Style of Flaminio Bertoni at Carlisle, PA. Meet…

May 25th

Posted by Denis in Citroen

3 comments

This last weekend was a real treat at the annual Citroen Club of North America meeting, which every year just happens to coincide with the Carlisle Import Kit/Replicar National Car Show. The year’s featured speaker for the club was Kim Walter and was it ever a treat!

Kim is a very accomplished Industrial Art and Design professor at the Pratt Institute in New York. More >

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