Good morning chaps.
Hey, it's all gone a bit quiet on here, so I thought I'd better stir things up.
My suspenders continue to function well after all the help I received on this forum. From all the input I got, I understood that pumping up the system from zero should not take more than a few minutes. How about 15 seconds ? That's how long my "New" system takes to get up after a week of sitting on its loading setting.
In my enthusiasm for getting the EAS working, I slightly overdid the numbers. I put the top setting, (which I use for climbing over the local Renault Nicoles ), a little bit higher than before. It also gives a much better view over hedges and fences if we are feeling particularly nosy. THEN I discovered the downside. A couple of new problems appeared a week or two after all the work. First, I started getting an occasional vibration-type noise that sounded a bit like the EAS compressor firing up but greatly amplified. I knew it couldn't be the compressor because that was working so well and the noise was not consistent. The second strange thing (in technical parlance) was a clonk when going over a pot-hole or speed bump, just like you get when a rear shock absorber has totally failed or a silencer hanger had come adrift. Couldn't be anything like that, not after my recent Contrôle Technique (MOT) had checked everything, quite violently I might add. It took a while to cotton on to the fact that both problems appeared only when the car was on full height. So until I can get out there with the magic EASUnlock and reduce the numbers a bit, I am just avoiding the top setting. So what's my problem, you might ask ? You did ask, didn't you ? No problem at all. ; I just thought I might warn anyone who is tempted to try and put their RR ten feet in the air.
In case all my new friends here think I've bogged off (Wilmot, anyone ?) I am now trotting off to the appropriate forum for engine mismanagement. I suppose there is one... In case anybody wants to keep up with my activities here in Frogshire, just let me say, I quite like idling but at 700rpm not at 1200 rpm !
Thanks again to one and all.