yeah Uhu has it backwards, shorten the link to raise the vehicle
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Yes, fixed it in my previous post. Sorry GTV.yeah Uhu has it backwards, shorten the link to raise the vehicle
I’ve been on the horn all morning and can’t find anyone who is able to scan this thing today, maybe tomorrow if I’m lucky. Everyone is busy and I’m deep in domestic car country.
I’m fairly confident that it is one of the front sensors but I wouldn’t be able to get those in hand for 2-3 days.
Ok... AHC fluid is low. That’s definitely a problem but would that cause the front and rear ends to behave differently, and if so how?
Re measuring sensors:
At the plug at the top of the fender, pin 1 (top left if you look at the holes/contacts with the lock at the top) is the center of the potentiometer, and should have half of the total resistance at N height. The total resistance is somewhere between 4 and 5 kOhm between pins 2 and 3. 8 k Ohm is probably too much and translates to a bad sensor, corrosion or wear. So, at Normal height, you should see nearly the same reading at pins 1-2 as at 1-3, somewhere between 2 and 2.5 k Ohms.
You opened up the left sensor, but suspected the right sensor. Now you know what a good sensor looks like, maybe check the right hand side as well?
For adjusting height, you have toshortenextend the link for lowering the height. (at the rear you move the link down in the slot to lower it).
There is a new post with good pics of sensors and links in the huge ahc-thread, here.
That means than the center (variable resistance) contact (#1) has no connection. This will be due to one out of three reasons: 1 - cable broken, 2 - bad contact in the tiny coil spring between the back (plug) of the sensor and the lid where the resistor carbon trace is, or 3 - no contact between carbon traces through the sliding spring contact (this slider probably has a better name even), either because of a worn out spring slider or a worn out carbon trace.@uHu : As an electrical novice, can you clarify which two points I should be measuring resistance on to check the health of the sensor? On my multimeter, the only time I'm getting a reading to stay on the screen is between the bottom pin and top right pin (with lock tab at the top). That number is 4.56 and I have my Ohms setting at max of 20k. If I put either the ground (black) or red into Pin 1 (as you described it) and anywhere else, I only get a reading in the 1.5XX-1.8XX range that flashes for a second then goes away.
That means than the center (variable resistance) contact (#1) has no connection. This will be due to one out of three reasons: 1 - cable broken, 2 - bad contact in the tiny coil spring between the back (plug) of the sensor and the lid where the resistor carbon trace is, or 3 - no contact between carbon traces through the sliding spring contact (this slider probably has a better name even), either because of a worn out spring slider or a worn out carbon trace.
Could be time for a new sensor, maybe a 22 $ Dorman unit if the linkages are OK?