Citroen Technical Tips and All Your Questions Answered by Denis Foley
Posted in Citroen on Nov 18th, 2008
This was a question that recently was sent in to me, and I covered it a bit in the article that I wrote about removing the Citroen D Model fuel tank, but I will go into greater depth here.
What I will be explaining here is the removal of a fastener from your vintage Citroen . [...]
Posted in 2CV on Nov 13th, 2008
Do you want to know what the point gap is on your Citroen 2 CV ?
Here recently, someone wrote in and asked me what the point gap was on their 1975 Citroen 2 CV . The best way I figured to answer this would be to list the Ignition System Specs for the 2 CV-6 [...]
Posted in Citroen on Nov 8th, 2008
Boy, this is how everyone should get the oil in their Citroëns changed. I think my SM is due. :0)
Posted in SM on Nov 1st, 2008
Would you like to know how to do that on your Citroën SM ? Tensioning the secondary chains with the valve covers remaining on the cylinder heads isn’t hard if you know the steps.
It is imperative to bear in mind the grave risk of misaligning the camshafts , causing possible damage to the valves or [...]
Posted in Citroen on Oct 29th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Citroen on Oct 28th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Citroen on Oct 27th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Citroen on Oct 25th, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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