3 repairs in one weekend, this is highly unusual indeed...
Last Thursday, Liz came home and mentioned the blower not working anymore. It had been very hot weather but it had started raining. So the non leaking
sun roof and windows needed to be closed. That's how she found out.
So, I thought I'd easily fix it. First of all check fuses but hey: hard to find that one! It's not really in the citroen instruction book or the Haynes....so I googled and quickly found out that fuse F2 which is situated in front of the air filter in the engine bay, is notorious for over heating. I, for one, didn't know this. So for any of you who don't know this: CHECK!
So I did check and found heat damage on this 30 amp fuse. And replaced it accordingly. Only ...the blower motor didn't work, yet. Strange.
So next evening, I replaced the blower motor with a known other model before
checking the 12V on the wire. So stupid because that was a useless action of mine. I just thought the motor had died because this does happen sometimes. So after that....well I read Haynes, checked relays and couldn't find a thing and it was very very warm so I started sweating.
Well, to make a long story short: UNLIKE the Diesel XM, Liz's petrol XM needs to be started (with the security code of course) in order to get that blower working.
In short I spent too much time trying to fix a problem that I had already fixed.
Diesels fuse was even more burned in even though still working so fixed that too.
After that: whilst going shopping I noticed the smell of petrol inside the car was significantly worse. Liz admitted to forget to tell me and the weather had been so warm she was only driving with roof and windows open.
So I decided to -not for the first time- check this out. The engine bay, didn't seem to be the cause. I had replaced the fuel lines in the engine bay fairly recently and all was fine there.
So once again, I took the wheel liner off for the second time and other than some spiders....nothing. But underneath and for the first time, I now found evidence of petrol coming down the tank.
With a mirror and torch I could see between the subframe and the chassis, with much effort, the back of the fuel line connected to the fuel filter. Only when pressurized, very very tiny little drops coming out of a 'bubble' in the rubber very close to the alu filter. Most of it would evaporate in no time. The bullbe in the rubber fuel hose, was exactly where the small pipe of the fuel filter has a ridge on it.
Anyways, all replaced now (not an easy job) but of course the exhaust that has to come off to gain access to that filter....and the long pipe from the cat. to the big damper, had a moon shape hole underneath where the clamp sat. So I needed to repair that as well.....This is as far as I got tonight.....hope I get the exhaust properly back on tomorrow.
That's all, nothing really but quite annoying jobs.
