15 Six: Repair attempt on the height corrector

Just after the purchase of the Traction, I wanted to fix the leak on the height corrector. It didn’t go as planned 😉

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Here is the corrector under the car. It’s leaking a lot so I remove it to see what I can do

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At that time I didn’t have the hydraulic lift yet, so I had long moments underneath the car to remove it

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I start opening it, it’s dirty…

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… more and more dirty…

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… the quantity of dirt we can find is quite incredible

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So I do some cleaning and I install new membranes…

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… but then I realize that the membrane diameter is too small. Obviously this corrector is bigger than DS and SM ones

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So I decide to use a SM corrector instead

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This one seems in very good shape…

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… but of course there us some dirt inside

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The bigger issue then becomes the number of connections, there is only one output instead of two for the Traction…

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… so I try to create the second output, by drilling and taping

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Then I realize that the output connects correctly to the other output but I could not align both holes (for the fitting and tube) correctly, there are not concentric enough

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So I’m screwed and I don’t want to try again and destroy another corrector

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As I need to move the car to install the hydraulic lift, I simply put back the original corrector onto the car…

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… and of course the leak is still the same once installed 😉

I’ve been told to install a DS or SM corrector (there are identical I believe) and use a “T-shape” fitting to connect both outputs (one for each suspension cylinder) on the single corrector output. This is not original but it seems to be a common solution so this is what I’ll do, later this winter.