Citroen Technical Tips and All Your Questions Answered by Denis Foley
Posted in D Model on Jun 18th, 2008
7.17 CITROMATIC - OPERATION AND ADJUSTMENT
INTRODUCTION
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The series of articles by Don (Red) Dellinger to follow will help you put your Citromatic back in adjustment, no matter how screwed up some previous owner has made it.
Follow the instructions step by step. Please remember one thing—check the simple things first.
Posted in Citroen on May 23rd, 2008
Here is a very current 6 minute 15 second video on the Concept Citroen C-Metisse. As you can see, just like in the days of the Citroen D Model, Citroen takes a back seat to no other manufacturer when it comes to cutting edge technology.
I WANT ONE.
How about you?
Posted in D Model on May 20th, 2008
Several years ago, I wrote an article for our Citroen Club of North America newsletter. It was published on the internet and I decided to let my readers take a peek. If you’re interested in preserving your D Model, it’s well worth the time to keep it rust free. Just click here… Oiling a Citroen [...]
Over the years, one of the most asked questions I got about Citroens from both customers and the general public was… “How much is it worth?”
My usual quick answer was… “Whatever someone is willing to pay.”
I know this seems like a bit of smart a** answer, but the real answer is not easy.
The Citroen [...]
Posted in D Model on May 18th, 2008
Here is a wonderful video that was placed on YouTube a few months ago. It is taken from the British television . Here the Citroen DS is discribed in a general, yet telling way, always refering back to it’s 1955 introduction date and just how truely advanced the car was. I hope you like it [...]
Posted in D Model on Apr 9th, 2008
Sorry for the tardiness of this entry, but I was ill for a couple of weeks. So here goes:
Now that the tank is in place and you have not caught the tabs on the walls of the tank compartment with the outer flange of the D Model gas tank, it is time to hook things [...]
Posted in D Model on Apr 6th, 2008
It’s back…
OK, you have the D Model fuel tank back from Gas Tank Renu. You can see that they did a great job. The inside is red and the outside is black. Both are are patented coatings that are impervious to any of today’s reformulated, high alcohol based fuels.
So, rest assured that you have [...]
Posted in D Model on Mar 31st, 2008
Did you find the fuel pick-up filter…
When you removed the the fuel line from the tank, and if you still had the large 21mm drain plug out of the tank from the passenger’s side of the D Model, you might have noticed the fuel-pick up filter that I spoke of earlier fall out onto [...]
Posted in D Model on Mar 27th, 2008
The tank is drained…
Now that the tank is drained, it is time to get back to those 8mm nuts we sprayed with penetrating oil earlier. Find your 8mm, hopefully 6 point socket and get onto these nuts carefully.
If they come off easy that’s great, consider yourself lucky. What you have to remember is these [...]
Posted in D Model on Mar 24th, 2008
Ready to drain the tank…
Now that you have the D Model safely up on jack stands and everything is stable it is time to proceed with draining the tank of the D Model. (I will first explain this for a sedan, and then come back with the few things that are different for the [...]
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