ViiiKiller
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Well, I took this whole week off to finally get around to fixing my high riding front end. It was a lot easier than I thought. I called Eddie to ask him if it was safe and he walked me through it. Without Eddie's help, I never would have known to pull off the air lines from the vent solenoids. Just for giggles, I applied voltage to the vent solenoid with line attached and all it did was click.
The hardest part was to remove the air line from the orange collet, though it was not too hard. I used a plastic panel removal tool to push up on the orange collet while pulling down on the line with my right hand. Once the line is removed, I made some super long jumper wires, red and black for dummy proofing with alligator clips on both ends. Remove the D shaped connector to the vent solenoid and the top of the "D" is the + and the bottom of the "D" is the ground. But I removed some wire loom back just to make sure the bottom of the "D" were both gray wires, which according to the schematic is the ground wires.
With the connector removed, I taped two long skinny nails into the alligator clips to touch the male connector pins on the vent solenoid. I did this on the drivers side but I actually cut the wires about 8 inches back on the passenger side because I had so much room to resolder the wires together. On the passenger side, I kept the connector on and just simply touched the stripped off ends of the two wires, orange and gray and listened to the beautiful hissing of the vent solenoids. Afterwards, I simply soldered and heat shrinked the two wires back together and plugged everything back.
Now my car is nicely lowered and no more check air ride message. I am so happy because I had my wife take me to work all last week and I really missed driving my baby.
Thank you Driller for sending me the link, it really helped.
The hardest part was to remove the air line from the orange collet, though it was not too hard. I used a plastic panel removal tool to push up on the orange collet while pulling down on the line with my right hand. Once the line is removed, I made some super long jumper wires, red and black for dummy proofing with alligator clips on both ends. Remove the D shaped connector to the vent solenoid and the top of the "D" is the + and the bottom of the "D" is the ground. But I removed some wire loom back just to make sure the bottom of the "D" were both gray wires, which according to the schematic is the ground wires.
With the connector removed, I taped two long skinny nails into the alligator clips to touch the male connector pins on the vent solenoid. I did this on the drivers side but I actually cut the wires about 8 inches back on the passenger side because I had so much room to resolder the wires together. On the passenger side, I kept the connector on and just simply touched the stripped off ends of the two wires, orange and gray and listened to the beautiful hissing of the vent solenoids. Afterwards, I simply soldered and heat shrinked the two wires back together and plugged everything back.
Now my car is nicely lowered and no more check air ride message. I am so happy because I had my wife take me to work all last week and I really missed driving my baby.
Thank you Driller for sending me the link, it really helped.
