Paul Price

Hello fellow w220 owners and fellow experts.
ok here's my issues I do have star c4. And I knw I can probably find my answers on it but talking to ppl who have done it themselves or just know.

ok so my car is dropping over night. Those that know me on here already know I have changed 3 out of 4 airstruts and did level calibration. But I've tested my system and I have a leak between valve body and compressor and a leak between resivor and valve body.
.what should I do to fix this. It didnt have this problem until my girlfriends dad drove it to emissions and drove it like his Corvette so that being said I have new issues.

I'm also in need of a pse pump in the trunk of anybody has one to sale

wallyp

The most logical approach is to jack the right front and support the car safely. Remove the wheel assembly. Remove the wheel well inner liner. This should expose the Airmatic compressor, valve body, and most of the air lines and connections. Use kid's bubble solution (cheap at the Dollar Tree, Walmart, etc.) and a small artist's paint brush to check for leaks at every air line connection. Simply tightening the fitting might do the trick, or you might have to cut a tiny bit of the air line off and reconnect. You might need to check the compressor lines, fitting and joints as well.

PSE pumps are available on eBay for about $200. You might want to make a serious check for any "pull-a-part" operations within a reasonable driving range.

Paul Price

That's exactly what I'm doing right now is checking and tightening each connection. Some do turn some and some are tight. I.m doingther conpressor side now. Then re test. The is a foreign pull apart not far alot ot ppl don't know about i.m going to check out

Paul Price

Does anybody know how much air I'm supposed to have stored in reservoir. I can fill it if wanted but dont know the number of what's supposed to be in it

Paul Price

Ok so I took Wallyp advice got bubble solution poured it on valve block and connectors. I have found bubbles coming from the nut with hose going from valve body to compressor. I tightened as much as I could did get about a half a turn from it. It slowed it down but still leaks. I also have a massive leak coming from underneath valve body. Not coming from any airlines at all it is coming from very bottom of valve body. I have 2 leaks 1 from compressor to valve body and 1 from reservoir to valve body. Now obviously the leak from valve body to compressor which is at the nut the airline connects to valve body needs some kind of attention.
the leak from bottom. Of valve body instead of air line connection is telling me I'm probably needing a new valve body or some kind of overhaul/rebuild. Alot more research a d studying to do now.

The Shoeman

Hello,

I actually have 2 PSE pumps that I willing to sell.

Both pumps work and have been tested. Let me know if you have any interest and if so, which one.

The pumps I have are:

220 800 05 48
220 800 02 48

I'm thinking $100 + $15 shipping to the USA

Send me a PM and we can discuss more details if you wish.

Thanks.

​​​​​​​Bill

Paul Price

So I installed the pse I got at salvage yard. Everything is working great but when I open trunk it opens and makes a weird noise. I tried normalizing the all the way open position but it still did the noise. And only other issue I have is I can now unlock my doors with the remote but only if I'm close to the car and only at the driver door area is this normal. Driver handle is only one with sensor

ItalianJoe1

I might need one of those PSE pumps, let me see which one my car takes and i'll get back to you.

wallyp

There are two ways to unlock the doors remotely. The normal way is with radio, with a transmitter in the key fob and a receiving antenna in the rear window. The other way uses infrared emitted from the tiny window in the end of the key fob, and received by an IR sensor behind the small black rectangles on the driver's and front passenger's door handles. If you use the IR sensor, and hold the unlock button down, the doors will unlock, tall windows will roll down, the sunroof will open, and, if equipped, the driver's seat ventilation will turn on.

Paul Price

how would I go about switching to radio way

wallyp

Both methods should be continuously active and available on the key fob. You simply push the lock, unlock, or trunk release button as you will. If you have the end of the key fob pointed at one of the door-handle sensors from a near distance, and hold the unlock button down, the windows and sunroof will open. The RF function does not open or close the windows and sunroof. The RF function will work from a reasonable distance away.

Paul Price

Yes I'm not worried about windows I want to knw goe yo switch to radio for the distance

wallyp

I know of no provisions to turn the RF key functions OFF/ON - the function is built-in, always there, always functional, unless there is a fault in the key or the car.