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I have Arnott GenII's on one of mine, 13 years old now and still look like new. The have the standard collet arrangement for the pipes, I got them very cheap. For the project car it was Dunlops as Arnott's are now silly expensive but I wouldn't...

It is and thank you again for all your help and advice 👍

You won't believe this but the official Arnott advice is to just cut the lines and replace the airlines when you replace the bags. Talk about OTT.

I actually feel slightly better reading this because at the time I felt like a complete numpty not being able to remove the airline from the bag (and subsequently ended up butchering the pipe), as everyone was telling me it was such a simple...

Nice to have a good result. :)

Morning All, To close this thread down, fitted two new Dunlop rear bags over the weekend along with some new pipe and connectors and all appears well, the back end has not dropped. Thank you to all who took the time to reply and provide...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I dont think there is enough length on the pipe to be able to drop the bag down far enough to be able to access the nut but I might be wrong, the space is really tight. Just cutting a small length off the pipe...

Contitech will be Arnott. Only fitting at the top of the bag slots through. You undo the R clips top and bottom, bottom.prises out and then the top will drop down and you can access the nut to release the pipe. I told one of the Arnott guys in...

Leave the pipe into the air spring long to give you a better grip and cut it to length after fitting it.

Arnott bags now have nuts on rather than push fittings. You have to remove the bag, drop it down through the hole, undo that nut you have mashed, very gently unprise the little brass ring that wraps around the pipe (if you're going to put the bag...

I am not sure what bags they were, they went in the bin and bin men came this morning, I thought I saw Contitech on them but cant be 100% sure. They were in a bad state, all the bottom rubber was heavily cracked on both sides hence the rear end...

I have a pipe cutter which should help, as you say using snips is a no no as the end would be deformed. Good idea with measuring the depth, I will certainly do that to give me a guide on how far the new pipe needs to go in for a solid fitting...

You can get a proper little pipe cutter for the nylon pipe, good for speed on a big job. You don't need one of them, use a new stanley blade and gently slice it through, what you are trying to avoid is crushing and deforming the end which will...

The bags need 60-70psi depends on how many tools you have in the boot, to get the car up. The reservoir side is higher around the 140/150ish I think. J

I cannot remember the cut off pressure but no more than 140psi. As long a the pipe is all the way in, the connectors will be fine. A little washing up liquid aids insertion.

They'll be fine.

Right ordered the connectors and nylon pipe, hopefully will arrive later this week, then I can try and sort the issue over the weekend. Just out of interest does anyone know what pressure the air suspension system operates at? I guess these...

Absolutely no need for 2 bends.

I concur just nipped out and had a look see. One bend would work easily

Crap memory I have hahaha 😆. I remember the one nearest the bag and in my minds eye there was another bend going around the rear of the mount but....old age..

So one 90 deg push fit and a short length of new pipe per side would sort it? Pizzing down here and I've hurt my knee so no nipping out for me.

Look on fleabay some sell shorter lengths. I remember buying about 15mtr for under a tenner

Nylon not polyurethane. Those connectors are just fine.

Very kind of you to offer, only problem is the car is now on axle stands waiting for the new bags. Also I need to order some pipe and connections. Found the connectors slightly cheaper, I think these should be ok, they sell straight and elbow...

B'ham for my sins!!

Thank you for the advice I will order up a metre or two of 6mm pipe and will buy a couple of 90 degree and straight fittings and see how I get on.

Yes. I think, from memory, the pipe has 2 bends before it enters the bag? So 2 90 deg fittings per side would give a nice tight set up but not very professional. The tube is quite flexible though so one 90 deg and a bit of trial and error with...

Yes I should have cut the pipe for sure but I didn't know any better at the time, it had the bags on from when I bought the car. I would strongly advise anyone to check the connection on new bags before fitting and if it has this type of...

That would do the job, suitable length of pipe from the air spring to elbow to bring into line with the feed pipe.

Luckily I have never had to buy pipe or fittings, I used to make controllers for compressed air driven machines so I have loads of pipe and fittings left over from those days.