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 is the correct name for it from the mother land.

This is a good product that I personally have had some very good results with. Any LHM vehicle can benefit from the use of this product if it has any age on it or has sat around or been in storage for any length of time. Total’s Hydraurincage will flush and clean out the hydraulic system making it perform very near to new again.

Now here is what the manufacturer says for use instructions.

1. Drain the hydraulic system as much as possible (Also clean out the Hydraulic filter at this time)
2. Fill the system with TOTAL Hydraurincage . (Bleed the brakes until you see Hydraurincage coming out) (You want it throughout the system to get maximum results.)
3. Drive the vehicle for 1500 to 5000 Km maximum. (Take through one oil change or 3000 Miles)
4. Drain and clean the hydraulic filters . (You will be amazed at the amount of crud you will find)
5. Refill system with Total LHM Plus . (Bleed those brakes once again until you see LHM coming out)

The results that I have found with Total Hydraurincage in the system for just 100 miles is pretty profound. Much better steering response. If the car had Citromatic , or a hydraulic shifting transmission , the shifting was night and day better.

The ride was even improved. In fact, I am told that the product was developed during the production of the CX to help with the varnishing up of the suspension cylinders causing sticking in the suspension cylinder pistons and a harsh ride.

However it was developed is beside the point. It is just a very good product that should be used in every old LHM Citromatic transmission before you set it up with the Dellinger adjusting article .

Total Hydraurincage can be purchased in this country in the East from Brad Nauss Automotive at www.bradnaussauto.com phone: 717-691-8550. Tell Brad you want hydraulic system flush . (and tell him Denis Foley sent you. :0) )

In the West it can be found at www.westernhemisphers.com It is listed as part# M-1200435 Cleaner,hydraulic flush Total.

Now what this product does is get all the varnish and dirt out of the system and bring it back to the filter, and it holds the smaller stuff in suspension until you drain it out. Very good product that I can’t say enough about. Take care of those Citroen beauties, don’t make ‘em any more.

Later,

Denis

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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 , Chapron (pedal car :0( ), 1987 CX GTI 2.5 Liter 5 speed, 1991 Peugeot 505 SW8, 1956 Lincoln Continential Mark II, and much, much more…

Hydronumatic Suspension demonstrated. Enjoy.

Denis Foley

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Over the years one of the biggest problems I saw new owners of used Citroens of any kind face with a steel fuel tank, was a rusty gas tank.

It was a BIG problem…

Even though the previous owner told him the car was run on a regular basis, there is a good chance that the car sat around for several years before you got it with only a couple of gallons of fuel in the tank. And the previous owner might have driven the car around town a bit and that was the extent of “run on a regular basis” Now, if that car lived in the eastern half of the U.S. the weather is usually on the humid side. With only a bit of fuel in the tank the area not covered by fuel is prone to rust from the condensation that forms in the tank, especially in the warm summer months.The car I am most familiar with having this problem is the D model. I don’t know if it was the type of steel used in the manufacture of the tank, or what, but the type of rust that is formed is a very fine type almost like a silt.

They LOVE the new D Model…

When the new owner first gets the car delivered to him everything is just fine. He gets the car home and his wife even likes the color although she hasn’t quite adjusted to the rest of its appearance.

Now he drives it around town a bit and starts to enjoy the car. The gas tank gets filled up a few times and now it’s time for that little car show that is a couple of hundred miles away.Yep, you guessed it. He talks the wife into going along with him, convincing her that there will be plenty of things that she will be able to do with some of the other wives who will be there.

The first road trip…

He loads the car up, fills the gas tank up and sets off. During this trip he has to hop onto the interstate for the first time with the car and he is amazed at how well the car handles at higher speeds.

Suddenly about 100 miles out he notices a distinct power drop in the car and then suddenly he is heading for the shoulder as the engine shuts down. What happened? Well, being resourceful and having brought a few tools along, he makes a few checks under the hood.

He just so happened to have an extra spark plug with him so he pulls a plug wire off and connects the plugs to it. He lays it down on the valve cover to ground it, turns on the ignition, makes sure the car is in neutral, and using the neat little relay switch that the D model has on it’s positive battery post he turns the engine over a bit. He has a spark all right, so now what?

He puts the plug wire back where it belongs and he notices where the fuel pump lies on the driver’s side of the engine and that the fuel hose leading up to the carburetor is pretty easy to get at so he loosens the clamp and carefully slides it off. Now with the ignition turned off he turns the engine over again.

No gas…darn

This time he notices that there is no fuel being fed out of the fuel line up to the carburetor. He knows that he has plenty of gas in the car, so with a heavy heart, and a very disgusted wife he puts the hose back where it belongs and pulls his cell phone out to call Triple A for a flat tow back home. Well, he is home again and his better half is reminding him that the money spent on the purchase of that car could have gone into something far more useful like a new kitchen.

Well, what should this guy do? Regardless of whether he decides to keep his wonderful piece of history or sell it he has a problem on his hands and it will need to be repaired. It is always interesting, the many filter contraptions that people attach onto their cars in hopes that this problem will go away, but it doesn’t, therefore it must be addressed. How he should go about that is next time……

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