Disabling the AHC and AVS systems, no warning lights. (4 Viewers)
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Love it so far, got almost 2 inch lift and it's been great with my dessert/dune runs.
Thanks for the tip on the bump stop mount. Ended up cutting them mostly off. They were very in the way!
@B Hans great idea with the diy breaker bar!
Without that I’m not sure I would’ve gotten those rear top nuts off.
One thing that came from all of this, now I have a AFS OFF light flashing on my dash. Didn’t remove the ahc sensors which I thought that’s all I needed to do to keep AFS. Anyone have any ideas of what this could be?
*update on afs: Found the fuse for afs and removed it. Not more flashing light.
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I'll watch for the tools, but the rear took that long? I'll have to dive in and crawl under the LX to see what might be that hickey other than the rust. I'm decent with tools, but my E36 has way more room to work on it with it's LS engine by a country mile than this thing. The irony haha.
I was thinking of new OEM UCA's, LCA's, CV axles, Wheel bearing (bluepit has some ready to install preassembled units) at same time. If I can pare it down to a weekend build, then sweet!
All in my costing for new OEM hardware on front, and an all around B8 Bilstein package is right around $4500
Yeah I’ve done a full suspension refresh on my e36 and it was about 100 times easier. I’ve found working on this Toyota to be much more challenging than any bmw I’ve worked on despite common misconception.
Bmws are meant to be worked on and rebuilt more frequently haha
Keep the main switching valve please. These are very hard to find and usually rust damaged. It’s the box on the right with many little lines looping back to it. Please put it up on the buy forum
I already sold the whole system damaged as is months ago. just kept the parts as I didn't have time to remove them.
How much does that pile of AHC weigh?
If I had to guess, somewhere around ~330lbs maybe
Interesting. We had ”presumed” that the weight difference b/w LX and LC was from the luxury items (sound deadening, thicker windows, etc). But if above weight is true, then that pretty much explains the difference!
As I remember a couple of the trickier lines that run over the tank are actually multiple pieces and could be taken apart. I don't think I had to do much cutting but did require some creative bending and pulling pretty aggressively to remove some of the more stubborn pieces. But I was able to eventually remove everything. The big hang ups are some of the clips that hold the lines to the frame, some of them are pretty well hidden but once released it becomes somewhat easy from there.
Looks like I'm going to be joining the
LX570 AHC delete/ traditional suspensuon club sooner than expected.
Got a picture of an oil stain in the driveway, from my girlfriend while I was at work earlier this week. Went outside to my LX to inspect it on my dinner break, and I noticed fluid leaking from my rear axle. After prodding around, I found a leaking suspension line in the rear that runs over the exhaust. As soon as I pulled up to the 4 way stop by my house, the warning light on my dash gave me the confirmation. The AHC was nice for the 7,000 miles I had, but I'm not shelling out the coin to get it fixed, only to have another issue pop up down the road.
LX570 AHC delete/ traditional suspensuon club sooner than expected.
Got a picture of an oil stain in the driveway, from my girlfriend while I was at work earlier this week. Went outside to my LX to inspect it on my dinner break, and I noticed fluid leaking from my rear axle. After prodding around, I found a leaking suspension line in the rear that runs over the exhaust. As soon as I pulled up to the 4 way stop by my house, the warning light on my dash gave me the confirmation. The AHC was nice for the 7,000 miles I had, but I'm not shelling out the coin to get it fixed, only to have another issue pop up down the road.
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That line is a common failure point and is replaceable. A full delete will be more expensive than replacing that line and bleeding the system.
Here are the part numbers for all the lines. Cheapest is $20. Most expensive is $600.
I kinda figured it was just by looking at it. If I do a full delete, I will probably just install an Ironman Pro Foam Cell 1" or 2" lift kit. I know it will cost more to replace, but I'm looking at it from a long term standpoint pricewise.
Thank's for this link. Do you by chance know which part number on that list is the one I need?
Totally get it the perception but lots of folks here have many hard miles on AHC. Mine included. Just maintain it.
If you do delete, iron man foam cell pros would be a massive downgrade in ride quality. I wouldn’t settle for anything less than kings or dobinsons MRA IMO.
Regarding which tube, I’d look around on this forum to confirm. If it’s the crossover tube on the frame rail I believe it’s tube number 4.
