How I fixed an air suspension air bag Audi A8 / S8 here's what I found out...
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- Опубликовано: 19 дек 2020
- Another unconventionnal shade tree repair on my high miles "luxury" flagship car
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Thanks for posting such detail repair. Much appreciated.
My pleasure, maybe that'll help someone down the line.
@@Veikra So in case after replacing the bag with a new one all new gaskets and it still leaks at the same spot as the old bag with the old gaskets (top of the strut), the bushing would be the only other thing that can cause the air leak at the top of the strut installed with the new bag...or is it any other component/point of failure that can cause the leak at the top?
Thanks...
@@sabinmari17 You have to check were the bubbles comes from.If the bubble comes from right next to the shaft its the oring. if it comes from further around the periphery it would be the bushing. The small oring on the top is not up to my standard so i throw it away and use a different one that is tighter and lube it so it goes in undamaged. This is often the case of the top leak. You can easily damage the oring installing the bad. It requires fine dexterity. That's the first bushing leak ive found on a new spring so suspect oring first.
@@Veikra thanks for your input and all the great help this is to me and eventually others.
@@sabinmari17 You're welcome. Maybe i'll eventually get enough views to pay the camera bills someday !
Good job ✌️
Thanks ✌️
Hi, What valve are you using to inflate it when it's off the car? simply putting air in there does not seem to pump it up. Thanks
simple homemade adapter with shrader valve
Not related to this video but I have a question on the wiring harnesses for my 2000 Gmc I noticed you videos with your truck and the harness you swapped I’m trying to convert my truck to power and it didn’t have any before I just picked up the door harness that I need for the seats, power switches, and mirrors do you have any knowledge on what else I need or if it’s plug and play
If you only want poweseats it's only a matter of hooking up the orange and black wires into the fuse box. Easier if you have the harness. But 2000 do not have canbus communication. so if you want heated seat you'll need door harness and body harness throughout.
@@Veikra I have both power door harnesses from a Yukon and the conversion I want to do is power to the door panels and mirror not the seat I’m fine with using the manual seats thank you
I want to convert my manual locks, windows, and mirrors to power
@@yoitsdeezygaming8050 well then installs the harnesses, plug fuse in. If it doesnt work then probe the power wire and find a way to hook them. You have no canbus to worry about
What can it be if sometimes the right side will go down on the A8 and sometimes it will stay up
air bag leak or valve block leak. Set car suspension in service mode and wait 24 hours. if one side goes down way more then you have a leak in those component or associated line. The reason it doesnt always do it is the system check the level and refills periodically up until 10hours after shutdown. If it stays up after this test, you have electronic issue, instead of air leak issues. Soapy water in strategic places will reveal link and high end scanner manned by a GOOD mechanic could find the problem if electrical.
It usually takes me 10 to 30 mins to find the problem but lots of mechanics wont find it and just throw parts at the problem until you're bankrupted
@@Veikra ok thanks i will try that and see what happens thanks so much
@@Veikra but lots of mechanics wont find it and just throw parts at the problem until you're bankrupted, yep, which is what happened with me recently.
@@johnthorley8162 That's f'ed up. Sorry for you.
Is the "missing loctite" one from ebay, Chinese part?
They are all from china and that's the first one I've seen leak like this. I've been running it since the repair and no issues, cars stays up for days, no leaks
@@Veikra Replied with the same as bellow at your other answer above....I purchased from a US seller...so what you're saying is that pretty much all of them can have this issue with the bushing since they're most made in China, right?
Wonder where the dealer sources their staff from, and another important question would be, WHAT ABOUT THE REBUILT ONES? Do these few places I found people were talking about like some in Florida etc.....how do they actully do the rebuilt and is the bushing part of it? Some people were talking about getting even the rebuilts with leaking problems and they had no ideea why....Let me know what you think and see my other message above....
Thanks a lot....Appreciate it....
@@Veikra So you think this is an assembly error of just some or there is a possibility all made in china and sold unbranded may come from the same factory that doesnt even have the sealing procedure included when it comes to assembling/pressing the bushing in?
@@sabinmari17 The bushing is usually fine with the loctite. That one is first one ive seen without the loctite sealant and it leaked. Rebuilt struts are normal struts with those bags installed anyways. Suncore were the units from florida IIRC. I've not seen differences in the air springs on rebuilt struts so they could be coming from the same place anyways. The danger with replacing struts is getting fake struts that have all the active suspension components removed. Arnotts made those and they destroy the magic of active suspension and the car is never the same. The struts are always good. Heck im running the original 556 000km struts and still no oil leak and perfect damping.
@@sabinmari17 I think that particular unit slipped through and was not assembled with the loctite on a assembly line that usually do it correctly