Won't inflate Front Right Air Strut?
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2006 CLS500, 2005 S430, 1998 SLK230
Won't inflate Front Right Air Strut?
I have a 2015 CLS550, my front left air strut was leaking badly and my front right had a small leak as well so I got 2 new struts to replace them. Prior to replacement I was using my Snap-On Ethos Pro scan tool to manually inflate the left and right strut while driving to keep them up and it worked no problem. After replacing both front struts with the new ones for some reason my front right won't inflate anymore, all the other struts work fine, they will inflate and deflate using the scanner, just the front right that won't inflate at all, when I use my scanner to try and manually inflate it I can hear the compressor running but it doesn't go up, I also tried removing the air line from the strut to see if i'm getting any air and there's no air coming out. Scanner also doesn't show any codes for the suspension system. Could it be just dumb luck that the airmatic valve block just randomly failed at the exact same time I replaced the air strut or is there something else I should be checking? Also from what I can see the compressor at the rear feeds the valve block right next to it and it seems the air lines run through the car directly to each strut? or is there something inbetween that could have failed?
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2006 CLS500, 2005 S430, 1998 SLK230
So I disconnected the two front air lines from the valve block and tried to manually send air and I can hear air rushing for the front left spot and nothing at all for the front right, I guess i'll be replacing the valve block.
