Possibly, I wasn't there when he did it but he did reset the heights (with hawkeye apparently) and set them too high so they were going out of acceptable range and defaulting. That was the cause of the dancing. I tried adjusting them with blocks and one rear sensor was a long way away from the other so I thought I'd tweak the arm and broke the mounting lugs. Fitted 4 new sensors and reset standard and mway and it seems OK now but not been on the motorway yet.
P38A Saggy roof Abs vacuum and air bags.
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supapete
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Done my headlining and airbags. The kit I used had just enough gunjo for the job. Two aerosols. A bit came adrift near the rear door and lifted it and i squirted some common or garden spray adhesive in. The lining corrugated and won't smooth out. That's my contribution if it helps. Air bags are a faff. I did shockers, discs and pads at the same time. Juggling jacks and axle stands I remember being the biggest irritant, being of limited intelligence.
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Did the air bags not need setting up after fitting?
As long as the sensors don't get damaged or altered, it shouldn't be necessary to alter any settings.
Sometimes though, the sensors can get moved, during changing the bags, to a place they never normally go and this can cause them to fail.
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At the time of doing the airbags I'd only had the heap five minutes. Hitherto my mechanicking experience was when plugs, points and carb jets were the only diagnostics and drum brakes
had to have their leading edges chamfoured. The EAS was my rude awakening to the vagouries of P thirty aches. So, ignorance was bliss. I just renewed everything
in accordance with a printout of an australian's experience. I didn't even have to deflate the system as it had self destructed. After the job I just fired it up and drove it away.
I hadn't even heard of or dreamed about fault codes nor diagnostic kit. So, I guess in answer to the question in my ever expanding experience Wazzajnr has said it. My next party trick
on my learning curve was heater matrix O rings and slipped cylindar liners. In the ten and a half years of massochism the only thing left undone is to change a headlight bulb.
had to have their leading edges chamfoured. The EAS was my rude awakening to the vagouries of P thirty aches. So, ignorance was bliss. I just renewed everything
in accordance with a printout of an australian's experience. I didn't even have to deflate the system as it had self destructed. After the job I just fired it up and drove it away.
I hadn't even heard of or dreamed about fault codes nor diagnostic kit. So, I guess in answer to the question in my ever expanding experience Wazzajnr has said it. My next party trick
on my learning curve was heater matrix O rings and slipped cylindar liners. In the ten and a half years of massochism the only thing left undone is to change a headlight bulb.
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The headlight bulbs do seem to be the most reliable fitment!
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The most reliable thing on the P38 Grrrrr is the sounder for the message centre, I find it always works........ 
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Ahh the good old beep beep never fails
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The wife's expletive. What's wrong with it ??!!
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Having reread this thread I happened on the mention of a Hawkeye EAS reset. While I was in the midst of an everything breakdown in southern Spain which included the pump going west I reset the EAS with my trusty Hawkeye. It gives out warnings before carrying anything out. They must apply to everyone but me. I went ahead. You can almost walk under it in high and standard is not much lower. I had to do the journey back in motorway setting to prevent the caravan back end trailing on the ground. I am this minute in the process off valve block o ringing and valving and replumbing leaky airlines. I can't fire it up to put my laptop on to post what Hawkeye set it to as I'm waiting for hoses for my brakes. If anyone's interested, I will before wilsoning it all. Just thought I'd mention it. In a way I've benefitted as I've left it up in the air on its axle stands having raised it to full height setting. All the time of waiting for brake pipes there's been no deflation. I can say that the measurements from wheel arches to hub centres is ,in old money, 22 inches.
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Heights from hub centre to lip of arch should be. Access 405 mm or 16". Motorway 445 mm or 17.5". Standard 470 mm or 18.5". Extended 510 mm or 20". Heights need to be set correctly on level ground, with correct tyre pressures, with bits as near as possible side to side (more importantly at front) heights + or - 7 mm. And bits if possible no nearer than 10 to minima and maxima for the height being set.
