yes sir... i meant the controller... and you are correct about the fittings. sad to say... but that dang mechanic who worked on my car might have cross threaded one of the fittings. (2nd fitting from the bottom)
(the accumulators were just recently replaced)...
all was fine until i developed a super leak (first leak) which "sprayed" hydraulic fluid all over the driveway when i tested the system by loading the car... went back to the shop to have them fix the leak, which they said they did... contrary to my suggestion to fill up with hydro fluid... they said i still had fluid left...(i was sure A LOT was sprayed away...) (my fault for trusting them)... anyway
i drove like this for a couple of weeks... didn't have sagging issues... but when i loaded the car with 4 people at the back... the car sagged and didn't "rise"... that'
s when i realized i didn't have "enough" fluid to raise the struts... but had "just enough" to keep the car level when driving unloaded.( i assume i had enough because prior to having the accumulators fixed and having almost no fluid my car sagged waaaaay below normal...you asked me to measure from the wheel star to the fender lip in another thread, will have to re-measure
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because i didn't have time to buy fluid to top up the system i continued driving like this... until, while parked at the office, i noticed a significant pool of hydraulic fluid on the ground... leak happened with the engine off, which is weird since there shouldn't have been any significant pressure in the system. i don't know if climbing around 7 floors of the carpark had anything to do with the leak...(this is the leak which the topic of this thread) this concerned me more since having just enough fluid and having it leak out meant i had waaaaay less fluid now.
btw... i bought 2 liters of fluid... i have just added 1 liter since the start of the ordeal to try and confirm where exactly the leak is... couldn't get the system to "drink" the added fluid...
thanks for the advise... i think i may have to manually bleed the system as per your recommendation. thanks again... will update the thread.