Did the pump & block a few months back and stupidly fannied around with height settings, but it worked until recently. One day a couple of months or more back she sat down on me so I fitted the temp valves and ran her like that.
Now I've been feeling pretty sore last year or so, but past few months it's mostly reasonable so yesterday I took my painkillers and set about swapping to winter wheels. Should have taken 20/30 mins tops, but took me 2hrs of faff as I have no strength in left arm. I jacked the wheels about 10mm off the ground and used a lever to lift the winters on and once the nuts were on, I spun them up with my battery gun and torqued in normal fashion. But after each wheel I needed about five minutes just to rest.
Anyway, I also fitted my "new" push fit chrome shrader valves to make raising & lowering easier until I found why she dropped. But the damn things leak like a political secret!
I checked the sensors when I changed the wheels over and all are solid with connected bits intact. However, I didn't (stupidly) check the electrical connections, but will do tomorrow or Wednesday when I go to see my mate at his garage.
So other than pump (working perfectly as I use it to charge up the tank for using my airline to inflate the bags) valve block & sensors, what else can be wrong?
Is it possibly the valves in the block that have crapped out? I didn't replace them at the time although I do have replacements somewhere in the house (bought them on here just after I did the block service). I have a whole replacement valve block I plan on fitting soon as I find the missing new valves.
It was driving fine and the rear went down, not super quick, but unexpectedly and it took the front a good few minutes to lower itself down. I was on a busy road at the time with no opportunity to stop.
All the bags stay up for weeks at a time (until I fitted those bloody awful shrader things) so I know they are fine and the pipes are new. The tank does lose air over a week or so, but very slowly. Could that be a/the cause? And if so, is there a vent valve on it or should I simply get a replacement tank?
Thanks lads & ladies
Now I've been feeling pretty sore last year or so, but past few months it's mostly reasonable so yesterday I took my painkillers and set about swapping to winter wheels. Should have taken 20/30 mins tops, but took me 2hrs of faff as I have no strength in left arm. I jacked the wheels about 10mm off the ground and used a lever to lift the winters on and once the nuts were on, I spun them up with my battery gun and torqued in normal fashion. But after each wheel I needed about five minutes just to rest.
Anyway, I also fitted my "new" push fit chrome shrader valves to make raising & lowering easier until I found why she dropped. But the damn things leak like a political secret!
I checked the sensors when I changed the wheels over and all are solid with connected bits intact. However, I didn't (stupidly) check the electrical connections, but will do tomorrow or Wednesday when I go to see my mate at his garage.So other than pump (working perfectly as I use it to charge up the tank for using my airline to inflate the bags) valve block & sensors, what else can be wrong?
Is it possibly the valves in the block that have crapped out? I didn't replace them at the time although I do have replacements somewhere in the house (bought them on here just after I did the block service). I have a whole replacement valve block I plan on fitting soon as I find the missing new valves.
It was driving fine and the rear went down, not super quick, but unexpectedly and it took the front a good few minutes to lower itself down. I was on a busy road at the time with no opportunity to stop.
All the bags stay up for weeks at a time (until I fitted those bloody awful shrader things) so I know they are fine and the pipes are new. The tank does lose air over a week or so, but very slowly. Could that be a/the cause? And if so, is there a vent valve on it or should I simply get a replacement tank?
Thanks lads & ladies
