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Old 08-22-2016, 10:57 AM
Maxbumpo Maxbumpo is offline
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Originally Posted by bsmuwk View Post
To even it out some, yeah, play with the rod until it satisfies you - it won't hurt anything.
I disagree, sounds like a great way to undue all the rebuild work and cause the SLS control valve to fail again. Setting the rear too high will cause more than base system pressure to be holding up the rear, which in turn will put a higher pressure on the base pressure valve than it was designed for, which may cause it to fail earlier than it should.


Adjusting the rear height is fraught with complications (see FSM for a list of special tools required).

Unfortunately if you've already adjusted it, unless you carefully measured / marked before you started, now you've got to do your best to make it work. One way to set it would be trial and error, with the car in "ready to drive" state as described in the service manual, and with a hydraulic pressure gauge to trial-and-error the adjustment until the base pressure is within spec (and I'm assuming that spec is in the FSM, going to take a look now to see).
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'87 124.193 (300TD) "White Whale", ~392k miles, 3.5l IP fitted
'95 124.131 (E300) "Sapphire", 380k miles
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