Chris woodford
Member Since: 03 Aug 2017
Location: Rugby
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As above, having a few issues, the suspension dropped on the front, was getting slow rise etc, rebuilt the dryer, put on raised to normal height fine, put in off road rear straight up front slower, pump seems to run for a long time, when fully raised pulled fuse 26, and it stayed at the same hight for 48hours, put fuse 26 back in stayed the same for another 24hours, starting car yesterday to do a full service, egr delete, silicon hoses, had in off road, but sounds like pump was running for ages to fill tank? Had down low and high, working but, seemed to be running for ages, it dose stop, at some point, could the tank have a hole in it? After anymore advice before I put it back on the road. Thanx
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 24th Sep 2017 8:27 am |
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thommo1927
Member Since: 30 Sep 2016
Location: Cardiff South Wales
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I had similar symptoms on mine ,Under the sills there is a tank each side ,Mine had a tiny leak in one of them. Replaced that and a rebuild kit for the compressor and all good so far.
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| 24th Sep 2017 12:41 pm |
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Chris woodford
Member Since: 03 Aug 2017
Location: Rugby
Posts: 99
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I'll look at it again did spray it before thanx
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| 24th Sep 2017 1:53 pm |
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JMack
Member Since: 02 Aug 2014
Location: Edinburgh
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thommo1927 wrote:I had similar symptoms on mine ,Under the sills there is a tank each side ,Mine had a tiny leak in one of them. Replaced that and a rebuild kit for the compressor and all good so far.
There's only one tank, under the passenger/near side.
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| 25th Sep 2017 7:30 pm |
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Chris woodford
Member Since: 03 Aug 2017
Location: Rugby
Posts: 99
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Thanx it is rusty at the ends but can't see any leeks with soapy water
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| 25th Sep 2017 7:35 pm |
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lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
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I would say knackered compressor unable to fill the tank, but only way to tell is to plug in and monitor the tank pressures and the compressor temperatures.
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| 25th Sep 2017 9:16 pm |
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Chris woodford
Member Since: 03 Aug 2017
Location: Rugby
Posts: 99
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Think it's worth doing the piston ring etc?
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| 25th Sep 2017 9:25 pm |
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lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
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That I dont know, but as I like an easy life I would grit my teeth and stump up for a new unit and be done with it especially if you plan on keeping the car for some time.
Dont forget theres also an inlet filter tucked up inside the chassis I dont know if they block up? but got to be worth a look.
If you contact member Gstuart hes done quite a bit of suspension work on his D3 incl valve blocks/compressor etc so will have some good advice for you.
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| 26th Sep 2017 7:12 am |
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Chris woodford
Member Since: 03 Aug 2017
Location: Rugby
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Thanks for that, I will have another look when I can, and go from there, I will get to the bottom of it 
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| 26th Sep 2017 8:27 am |
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johnlad
Member Since: 02 Dec 2016
Location: blackpool
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I fitted one of the cheaper Hitachi replacement pumps a month ago, works well, near silent operation and runs for a much shorter duty cycle than the one it replaced. It was from eBay and cost £299 and has a 2 year warranty
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| 26th Sep 2017 10:20 am |
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Chris woodford
Member Since: 03 Aug 2017
Location: Rugby
Posts: 99
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That's not a bad price, only concern is if it isn't the pump
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| 26th Sep 2017 10:22 am |
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discoagain
Member Since: 13 Jun 2015
Location: Reading
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Hi, my compressor never needs to run for more than about 3 minutes, even if the suspension is fairly empty.
Every other day or so it runs for about 20 sec, stops, then sneezes. That seems to be about the norm in my experience of EAS.
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| 26th Sep 2017 8:23 pm |
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Chris woodford
Member Since: 03 Aug 2017
Location: Rugby
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May time it, haven't started since Sunday and still in off road height
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| 26th Sep 2017 8:34 pm |
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