Hey guys welcome back to legit street cars and welcome to another insane mercedes v12 video. If you guys caught the last one, i ran into a few little problems to say the least and if you watched until the end, you know that i ended the video right here, because i have already started filming this video, if that makes any sense uh. So i post it up on instagram and on facebook. The issue that i'm having i got a response that was just out of this world, like at least 30 emails from mercedes technicians from all around the world, willing to help willing to dig in and get dirty there.

Some of them are like. I want to fly out there and help you figure this out and when you're a technician, that's kind of how you got to be. You have to be excited to figure out weird problems as horrible as this car has been treating me. I still like it and i'm still having fun i'm learning and if i can save you guys from any of these complete disasters, it's all worth it even just one of you so anyway, with that, i got a bunch of suggestions, a lot of them.

We already tried, but we do have a few new ones that we're gon na get into right now. So let's get going. This is not a normal problem. There are no fault codes whatsoever in the abc suspension system and if we go to live data, we have the proper pressure.

That's about 200 bars that is spot on no codes. Proper pressure. This system does absolutely nothing now. This would be pretty rare, and i've never seen this myself, but this valve right here could be bad.

This is the suction restrictor valve and we're going to go ahead and activate the one on the car so watch. When i activate this, you can hear a change. 1000, it's right there within spec, everything's, fine. It seems to be okay, but i'm going to swap it with the original one anyway, because it's kind of easy - and there could be blockage in here, possibly when they rebuilt that pump and guys keep in mind.

This is a 1300 pump. This isn't like an ebay special. This is a factory mercedes pump, but they're all rebuilt. Now, let's pop this old one out seems like the easiest thing you can do on an abc suspension system, but i've never replaced these separately.

Quite honestly, i don't know if you can get them from mercedes, separate. Okay, there we go and yeah this one doesn't look particularly clean, but uh i don't know. Maybe when we open up the new one, we'll see a rag or something jammed in there from when they rebuilt this. That would be great.

Well, unfortunately, there wasn't too much to see except me losing a bunch of expensive fluid. Here is the one that i pulled out. It looks much better than the one i just installed. I swapped over the new seals.

This thing looks brand new and awesome, but you never know you never know all right fire in the hole again kind of low. On fluid, i put another quart in there, so, let's just pressurize it a little yeah, we got ta add a little bit, but it should work if it's gon na work, which is probably not gon na work. Yeah no change that valve did absolutely nothing. Nothing all right.

We still have about 3000 psi, so that's perfect, but no activation of anything all right, so i just got done pulling the main pressure line, which is that one and there's a hose here so i was thinking. Maybe it's got some internal blockage. I blew air through here and it's perfectly fine pop this hose off too, and it's fine as well. You can see here, p that's for pressure, and that is the longer hose.

So the pump sends pressure here and then it gets distributed from there and uh. Nothing is blocked in here you can see a little screen that looks clean, um and then also. This is the t that gets pressure from the pressure line here from right here. This valve block that i already replaced, and this valve block has the main pressure.

This is directly connected to the pump so from the pump pressure goes through this line to this valve block. This is a relief, so this will see very little pressure, and this has all the pressure. So this is the line that sends the pressure through this through the t through this line and all the way there and i verified everything that we have pressure going all the way to here. So it's just not doing anything once it gets here.

That's what's driving me crazy, and now this has four solenoids. I've activated each one of them, the chances of all of them going bad or very rare, though also, and i can hear them clicking - they are pulling amperage. I can verify that in the computer, that it's the proper amount and still we get nothing all right guys. We got something i was ripping apart this valve block.

I took out uh one of the solenoids. I was gon na. Take them all apart and see what i could see see if i could figure something out. I haven't pulled this out yet, but i think i found something i'm very excited.

If this doesn't turn out to be the issue, i will be as sad as you guys have ever seen me all right hang on, so i just pulled this line from the bottom of here. Oh look at that look at that in there you see that there's a piece of plastic inside of the accumulator. Look at that and then look at the line that goes into the accumulator. What is this, what is this piece of rubber? That should not be there.

Sorry, if the audio's, no good, i'm not all mic'ed up right now, i don't even care look at what is this thing? Oh? What in the world? What is that it's a piece of rubber? It's like a tube or something i don't know, but this was completely blocking up the line all right, so we have whatever that rubber hose. Looking thing is, and then it's, oh, that just popped out did this thing completely come apart. Is the question or did something get in the system? Is that the inside of a hose - i don't know, but we're gon na find out right after we check out my new stuff from my friends at bespoke post, you guys are gon na love this all right. So i just got the weekender.

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That's the pressure port. That is the main pressure line that goes directly to the abc pump and from there it splits off. All the pressure to all the struts anyway, we got ta fish, whatever that is out of the valve block. That could be the entire issue, so i'm really hoping that this isn't the inside of a hose, although i did replace the main pressure hose, which is good wow.

This is just totally lodged in there. Oh, my gosh, there was a piece of it yeah, so whatever this is, this seems to be a hard plastic, probably like that little washer, looking thing that was in the accumulator, the white one, all right, we're gon na blow this line out. Oh it's black! That's totally blocked up yeah 100 black yeah wow. I think the accumulator just blew up.

If i put the screwdriver in here, there's nothing in there. This whole thing just came apart, went through this line and blocked up the entire valve body. That's what it did all right after about five minutes. I finally got this to break off.

Okay, there's that i don't know. Oh man, i'm gon na have to take this thing apart. I think i think it's still just completely blocked up in here wow all right. I'm gon na have to remove the valve block entirely.

It looks to be blocked up. I might have to replace this thing see right in there. That's that white plastic. It's just jammed in there like crazy.

Who knows where else it went here um. I don't believe it got anywhere past this. I think it blocking it right. There was actually a good thing and the filter for the system is on the return side, so we might be okay, all right all right, so i've removed all the lines.

Now we just have one more bolt, and this should pop right out. Oh yeah, here's a better look for you guys! This thing is 100 blocked. I could start like drilling this out, but uh yeah. I don't know i'm gon na remove all these solenoids first we'll see we can see.

A friend of mine does have a good known valve block that i might just grab and swap my solenoids into get a rebuild kit for these as well just to be on the safe side. So these solenoids turn and there's like a little notch that you can feel and then you can pull up forget where it is, though, oh maybe it's right. There there we go. This is like a little dust boot right here and they sell rebuild kits for these.

I just ordered one up it'll, be here in a couple days, so we'll replace all of these seals. But if you have a suspension, that's losing pressure overnight, drooping down overnight, but then pops up in the morning there's a very good chance. You just have a bad seal, alright, so let's get this other one out of here. There's our notch! There we go and i'm not seeing anything inside of here just yet.

So that's good! There are screens inside of here, i'm hoping the screens caught the plastic and rubber before i was able to get into any other parts of the system. Okay last one, of course, doesn't want to turn at all jeez all right, nothing of vice and some gigantic channel locks can't take care of look at that now i got ta find the notch. I think it's right there. Oh, this is a nightmare.

Come on all right, this uh took a lot of effort, but we got it and look at these. These seals, not in the best of conditions, see this is just how they normally fail. They just start to come apart, but it doesn't look like we have any debris inside here. So where all the solenoids sit in the valve block, it looks pretty clean and you can see right there.

There's a screen, there's a screen on each one of these. So we're pretty well protected. There's another screen there as well. So this is the problem area right here, all right guys.

It's two days later and i think i finally got lucky with something on the cl. I got parts in just a couple of days. This is everything i need to get this abc suspension. Working hang on a second knock on plastic crossing, my fingers throwing salt over my shoulder.

I don't know if i just jinxed myself, but this should be everything and i just want to say a big thanks to my friend ian. He has been collecting mercedes parts for many years. He had an s600 and i had forgotten that when i was at the wizards shop in kansas, i found out that my fan was bad and ian had one. I think this is from an accident car.

It just got a little damaged here on the blades. No big deal so he hooked me up with this engine fan so we'll be replacing that that's like the fourth time. I've had this in and out of the car and he has valve blocks and solenoids galore. So i have decided i don't even want to mess around drilling this and trying to clean all this plastic stuff out.

These valve blocks are very inexpensive. You can get them used on ebay, it's just a chunk of aluminum, not a big deal and ian had three of them with the solenoids and one of these he rebuilt a few years ago. I'm pretty sure it's this one. So we got to pull these out and double check that the seals are new.

So when you rebuild these, all you're doing is simply swapping out these o-rings. They sell a kit now, which i do have. I may use it in the rear later, but there's no issue in the rear so right now i just want to get this car in the road. I don't really care about anything else.

So if he already did this, i'm just going to roll with this complete unit and call it a day uh also from mercedes. I have ordered all three remaining accumulator balls there's a total of four. We replaced the one in the pressure relief valve in the last video, so this is like a thousand dollars in accumulators, but i don't want to run the chance that the rear one fails and sends rubber through the rear system. So we have a new accumulator for the front, the rear is identical and then the rear also has this little one as well.

So with that, let's pull these two remaining solenoids out. I already checked these and the seals look brand new double check. These are new and then we'll get back to work on the car. All right, so taking these out is easy.

We just have a clip here. We need to squeeze pull straight out and then just remember the orientation of these solenoids. They are color-coded, sometimes that color rubs away after many years, so just mark them. If you have to it's just like green red, yellow blue with all these valve blocks, i pretty much got that figured out okay.

Here we go yeah. These look really good okay. So this is the one that's already been rebuilt, so he replaced the teflon seals and the o-rings. This is our original honestly, these weren't having an issue anyway.

These were totally fine, even though when we pulled the other one out, the seals looked a little bit rough, but all that will happen if these seals start to leak is the car will sag down like overnight. If it's sitting for a few hours, you replace the seals and you're good, these rarely fail, but these look nice and fresh and clean. So i'll pull the last one out, i'm sure it's fine and we'll roll with these okay that one's back okay yeah same deal. Nice new seals ready to go everything, looks nice and clean in there, so we're gon na roll with these.

They look good good job ian. They just clock them again and then you're sliding your clip back in and we are all sealed up good to go. Okay, so there is the larger accumulator ball in the rear. I'm hoping we can sneak this out, but we might have to loosen up this exhaust all right, i'm not even going to play around.

It looks pretty much impossible to squeeze it past this big muffler, so we're gon na go ahead and loosen this up. These are aftermarket mufflers. They are remus, i think they're kind of expensive, but honestly it doesn't really make the car sound much different. I'd prefer just to have the factory amg tailpipes, honestly, okay.

Well, unfortunately, it looks like i have to remove this entire muffler and pipe section soak this with some penetrating oil and all right getting lucky with this nut too. These factory mercedes clamps, are really good. All right cool so we'll make life easy, we'll leave it on the last rubber hanger, so it kind of holds itself up, and now i have a clear shot to this ball there. It is one line and a few tens and, of course, i've already relieved the system pressure in the rear, there's a bleeder before each strut didn't have any but uh just in case.

You want to check and that broke free, really, nice, oh it's so nice working on a car from california. If this was a 135 000 mile chicago car that was driven through the winter, this line would have just deteriorated away and these are actually 13 mils. Last one: do you want to get any of this on the exhaust there? We go we're good and you can see the plastic piece right there, but it's intact it's in one piece and if you remember on the failed accumulator ball, we could stick the screwdriver all the way through and we were tapping the back of it. That's because the diaphragm ripped apart and everything just kind of let loose inside on this one.

You can see we're stopped right here. This accumulator is intact, but who knows for how long i'd? Much rather just replace it all right. So the new ball is going in all right. Give this line good, tighten, and i just want to mention that i've never actually seen an accumulator fail in this fashion.

Normally you just get a car in and it's kind of bouncing around a little bit and it might affect the way that the car raises and lowers. But i've never seen one that's exploded and clogged the system and neither did roughly the 25 or 30 mercedes technicians that emailed me to help out with this problem. I'd gotten back to quite a few of them once i figured it out and they hadn't seen it either. This exhaust is kind of fighting me here get back in so this is not a common issue whatsoever, but if you really love your abc car, you might just spend a thousand bucks or so on parts, probably more like 1300 with fluid and filters, and all that Kind of stuff, but it might not be a bad maintenance kind of idea to go around and just replace these accumulators.

Next, we are in the left, rear of the car. There is a panel that sits right here that i've removed and you can see the fuel pump and the inline fuel filter here as well, and i need to replace this pretty sure - that's 10, 14 and then the build day 2012, so very old fuel filter. I will have to get a new one of these uh later, not today, i'm not waiting on any more parts, but here is the accumulator ball that we need to replace back here, and here is your rear valve block as well four solenoids also, so each strut Gets two solenoids for a total of eight many many lines: lots of stuff going on here, really really expensive system, but when it works, it works really. Well, oh and i'm going to leave a video linked down below that i made early on in my youtube career and it's a response, video to a doug demiro review on the 2005 amg at the end of his video.

He said something along the lines of i couldn't even imagine how much it would cost to repair and maintain this car. I guess that's my doug demero impression, and so i made a response to his video and i broke it down with like charts and everything on what it would cost to repair a lot of the common items that fail on this car, including the abc suspension. So i haven't seen that video in many years myself. So if you guys want to see how i was you know a long time ago in the beginning of all this check it out down below and warning, the video will frighten you away from ever owning.

One of these cars - if this hasn't already probably has all right - this guy looks pretty straightforward. We have two 17 millimeters to break loose for the lines. Again, there is no pressure in the system and we won't lose too much fluid either, and then we just have two 10 millimeters. There we go, and this guy comes right out there we go back in with the new and we'll install this in reverse order.

I'm not going to put the plastic cover back on, because i definitely want to come back and replace that fuel filter. We're not going to be driving this car in any inclement weather or very far before that filter comes in just hoping. We're driving this car at all in this video that'd be great all right, i'm ready to start in the front, but i really got to get this line cleared. It is totally blocked.

A little fluid came out there, but this is 135 psi of air pressure and it's not enough to blast out whatever's in here. It's just coming right back out of there and of course this line has to be bent in a million different spots. So it's going to be kind of hard to rot out with something come on: no okay. So here's what i'm thinking i have two of these little grabber tools.

These guys are actually really nice, but these are just cheap, harbor freight specials, and this is too large to go in. So i'm going to try and snip it right here and then this is very flexible and we might be able to rot it out. So, let's see if this is able to be cut yep all right cool, so i just sacrificed a tool for the cl nothing. I won't do for this car and let's hope it was worth it, and this actually fits it does.

Is it gon na be able to make a bend like that? Yes, it made that yeah, that's about it. Let's try this side all right, probably like around here now, and it's stuck okay, so i think it might be stuck right there, oh yeah yeah. This thing is blocked up real nice, oh yeah blocked up solid. Maybe i can heat it that could work all right.

It does actually look like this would thread out, so i'm just holding it and this side we can get the 19 on it's coming out. No, it's slipping. Can't be that easy right. All right, i got the original old school vice grips.

Yes, i cannot go anywhere and i can kind of get this 19 socket on here. So we'll give it a little shock. It's moving. Okay that didn't work.

Let's try! This does that turn. Oh, that's turning! Yes, it is turning awesome all right. I think we broke it loose with the impact all right. This might take a while, but i can turn it with the line.

What are we gon na find in here? I'm gon na venture to say rubber and plastic lots and lots of rubber and plastic. What do we got? Looks like some blockage to me, and this looks pretty good. This just goes like that. I'm going to say not only is this stuff blocked up in the lines, but it is very difficult to remove.

I guess that's what 3000 psi of hydraulic pressure will do to things got a piece. I don't want it piece by piece. I just want the big chunk: let's go there, we go. Oh it's not even all of it.

Look at that. That is big. Look at this. It's like that shouldn't be physically possible to fit into this little tiny tube another one, and i think that's it.

Okay, all right: let's try this again yep! Now it's blowing through all right. I don't see any more rubber. I'm gon na do this quite a few more times to be safe, but i think we're okay, yeah, we're good all right! Well, i'm now adding these pieces to the pile of shame. The stuck open, injector, the seal that i totally messed up for the alternator and now rubber from the abc accumulators thanks.

Okay, now we're going back in with the known good valve block and it just hangs up here. There's one all right valve block is fully installed. All four solenoids are plugged in most of the lines are installed, except for the one for the accumulator guys. I can't even believe that we are here right now.

We are one part away from this abc suspension. Finally working so we can go on our first drive in eight months in the cl65, so i am totally confident that this is going to fix it. It has to we found the smoking gun it. Just it's got to work, no doubts in my mind whatsoever, but if you guys have any doubts over there um, then, if you believe in something say a prayer, if you don't maybe a dance, summon the powers of the universe, good thoughts and positive energy or whatever Um, because if this doesn't work, if this doesn't raise, i i don't know what i'm gon na do, but enough of that nonsense.

This is definitely definitely going to work. No doubt here we go stay; okay, oh no! No! No! No! Powers of the universe, powers of the universe, what's happening, oh man, i must have messed this thread up. I guess somehow, when i was holding onto this or something i don't know, wow all right, great great, all right. If i'm gentle, if i'm patient, i can fix this, it hasn't marred up the sealing surface or anything like that.

Luckily, this just needs to thread in if we can just get rid of the burr on the threads, i mean it's quite the burr um, and as long as this screw's on it'll tighten up there's plenty of other threads, this is going to be fine. This is going to be fine, so i'm going to take my time do this right, because i'm never going to find one of these lines. They don't even make hoses for this system anymore. This is all i got.

Okay, so, unfortunately i don't have a thread file with me and don't have a tap this size or this this big, so just gon na have to go at this manually. We just need to get rid of this material in between the threads and we will be fine all right. I know this still looks bad on camera, but i filed this down for just about five minutes used the pick in there got some of the material out. I don't know why this looks so bad in real life.

It's not that bad, but the important thing is this: that it easily threads into the accumulator without an issue. So we are good to go. There's plenty of threads plenty of meat to hold this down, and luckily i didn't damage the actual ceiling surface so we're good to go. I thought this to myself when i messed up the alternator seal, that, if that's all that happened during this entire engine, madness i'd be okay with that, and i find myself saying that one more time.

So this is my error. I must have slipped up with the vice grips or something and nicked to the threads mistakes happen, but we fixed them and now we can actually put this thing together and get it to work. That's it. This is the only issue.

That's gon na come up. We're done we're done with issues, and this is going to tighten up with no issues whatsoever. There we go. Okay, everything is all fixed up here and all the way up here, all right.

Let's check the fluid level before we fire this guy up, make sure we're at least in the ballpark stay. I don't have too much of this fluid left. Maybe another quart yeah reservoir is empty. Okay.

I have whatever's left in this guy, not that much, but i have one more. I have one more, which should be good enough. I have gone through a lot of fluid lots and lots of fluid. It's gon na.

Take this entire thing. Yep it's gon na! Take the whole thing, and we should be right there, coincidentally right where we need to be that is until the system sucks in a bunch of the fluid, then we might be a little low but whatever, let's just go for it. Okay, i'm gon na shut. This hood for a full visual effect of the car rising here we go here.

We go eight months, a 50-hour engine job, that's turned into more hours than i'd ever like to count, and it all comes down to this. Here we go here, we go, it did it, it did it wow it's high. It's really really high. Okay, it's a little too high, but uh whatever it raised it raised up and it still says it's low car too low, all right.

What is going on here? Okay, okay, it did it it raised. I have a 4x4 cl 65. Now it's super high and it won't go down and it still says it's low, but i don't care it. I don't care, i don't care, it's it's.

It's uh we're going to get there. Okay, so looking back at the footage, i don't believe the rear did anything, but i'm able to get the lift arms out from under there. So i'm gon na back the cl out into the driveway and i'm gon na start actuating stuff with the computer. Maybe we can get this thing to dance and do the rodeo.

I might have to do some recalibration here as well. Who knows but we're definitely going for a ride. I don't even care if it's still broken right now and i need to figure out this super high ride height. I don't care we're still gon na drive it as is first drive and we'll we'll deal with it later or right.

Now i'm hoping i could just fix it right now, all right, so, let's fire it back up, excellent and yeah. It says it's too low. I guess that could be because of the rear. So let's just give it a few more cycles, it's possible.

We just need to get the fluid back there or there's a piece of rubber clogged in that valve block. Who knows all right, let's just put it in reverse and get going. It's our first drive it's moving out of the garage. Yes, i'm a very happy camper right now very very happy for someone with a still broken car.

I'm still still positive here, all right, let's just give it a few more a few more of these, i got to check the fluid too. Let's go do that all right, let's see here! Oh no, all right, yeah we're bone dry. All right! Let's shut this down, i got to get fluid all right. I actually do have a little bit of fluid left.

I didn't recognize it because it's in a different bottle, but this is the same stuff as well. So i'll use all of this there's about three quarters of a bottle left, let's see if adding more fluid will do anything. What's weird is it won't go down and it says the car is too low. I don't believe the sensors are flipped or anything but yeah.

It's not doing anything anymore check out our fluid all right. Fluid level is perfect. Let's get the laptop okay, so i'm starting off by clearing all the codes. I've cleared them all out.

The only codes left are critical ride height in the rear, just go ahead and start this up. Let's see if i can just activate the rear to work, i can hear the solenoid clicking. I've activated, it left rear, it's not doing anything. Man do.

We have a piece of something blocked up in the back too yeah. We got nothing great great, don't know why we can't lower the the front. The front should go down system pressure too low, we're only at three bar. We might need to pressurize the tank okay.

So we're only at three bar it's supposed to be at 200, which means we could have sucked up a little bit of air when this tank ran dry. No big deal we're just going to pressurize this a little bit. Hey we're up to seven we're getting somewhere. We're getting up there: 15 18.

19. 20. 22. Okay, we're at 80, 80 bar come on doing anything.

118 121 come on. Yes, it's going up 165! Oh! This is gon na work. 183. Okay, we're basically almost there, let's back out back out of the system completely.

Okay, go up come on, i'm gon na clear the code for the low pressure, and then this should work okay. So now we just have critical ride height in the rear. Go up, go up. Darn, we have 199 bar.

This should work. This should definitely work. Oh it's dry again. Ah i keep on getting lucky.

This is it, though i went up in the garage attic and i found a very, very old container of abc fluid, but it's sealed so we're fine. So glad i saved this. I have so much junk in the attic that i'll never use. Okay, all right, there's got to be it now.

We still have 199 bar now we should be able to do the rodeo f3 - hey, oh, yes, that is the rear. That is the rear. Moving independently. We're doing it we're doing the rodeo.

Yes keep going. You guys, don't know how happy this makes me keep going little buddy. Don't stop, got no leaks. Luckily, you would know right away if you had a leak with 3000 psi.

So let's just check some fluid here. Fluid is perfect all right, um, that's good! We'll! Stop the rodeo! There hey look at that. It's a normal ride, height calibration of plunger sensors. Let's just calibrate it all f3.

Okay raises that all the way up, it's going to do a little bit more rodeo and then we'll disconnect the laptop and i'll try and raise this with the button inside. But i think we could be good all right guys. I don't believe the rear is actually working when we're doing the rodeo. It kind of looks like it's working uh, but it might just be the front, that's bringing it up with it.

Let's crack these bleeders here, yeah, nothing in the rear a little bit and it's cold, it's cold old fluid, so nothing is getting to the rear at all great now we already had this line off going to the accumulator and this line as well. The only line that we have left to remove to see if there's rubber in the valve block would be this one um. I don't think it would make it there, though i mean at this point, i'm just hoping there's a big chunk of rubber on this line. Actually be great and we have more cold fluid.

I don't feel anything. I don't see anything, wonderful, wonderful, all right, so i have this rear line disconnected. It goes all the way to the front where i also have it disconnected, and if this is clear, we should see a bunch of fluid squirting down on the ground yeah, and we do excellent all right now. I have this line disconnected here and all the way up there.

This is the pressure line to the front that eventually leads to the front valve block. Let's make some more mess: okay, yeah! It's blocked! Oh wait, nope nope, it's not blocked darn it. I was kind of hoping it was blocked. Yeah all right, that's enough! I don't know if this is some kind of sick joke i've just disconnected a bunch of lines up there.

I took out another valve block. This little tee thing blew it out. Everything is fine. The fluid back here is ice cold.

The fluid up there is hot nothing's getting to the back, but the lines are clear and i'm disgusting - i i don't know i don't know shouldn't be happening all right so check this out. I got the engine running right now. Normally, this would squirt out like crazy. We got nothing but old, cold fluid.

I don't think there's any pressure in the rear again, this is super dangerous. Don't do it at home, blah blah blah blah blah, but these are the two lines coming from the front. These should have 3000 psi, but it just dribbles out basically does nothing at all, also cold fluid. Let's try this one and this guy's got basically nothing awesome, awesome all right guys.

It's a couple hours later, i've blown through every line you could blow through. I disconnected all of these. These are two t's that go to the rear uh. Everything is clear from here all the way to there, even though what you guys saw was us blowing air from there past here all the way to here, but just to rule out everything and anything i don't even know i blew through these nothing.

I blew through these again all the way to the front nothing's blocked in there. Everything seems fine, so i've removed every line from the rear valve block. I'm just gon na drop this thing down, so i can take a good look at it and hope that something is plugged up. Okay.

Here we go okay. Well, unfortunately, there was no smoking gun. Everything looks fine, so i'm just gon na pop out solenoid or two see. If we can see anything there, we go, looks good, there's our spring, just a bunch of cold fluid all right, so i ended up getting a uh rebuild kit off of amazon.

Since i got this rear, one apart, i might as well replace all of the seals and hopefully we'll find something. While we do that and there you go just replacing seals, that's it. Anyone can do this. These valve blocks are not hard to rebuild and you can see.

I got the new teflon seals new o-rings and we're good to go all right. I've put everything back together again and uh, i'm just gon na start. The car again run it and see what we can see. We got a little fluid on the dipstick, that's nice! Well, there you have it.

The front goes up the rear. Doesn't so i got the car all put back together. I have it doing this alternating dance. Little thingy and uh the rear doesn't work.

It looks like it's working a little bit, but it's really not there's no pressure going to the rear at all. It's just when the front raises up it kind of raises the whole car. It's just. It's not working.

Trust me, the back doesn't work well guys. I said we were driving it in this video it slammed in the rear and on the bump stops. But it's not rubbing. So i'm gon na go for a little ride because i just want to drive my car and actually i think it might be rubbing in the rear right now.

I don't know i don't know kind of really just don't care at this point, but i'm driving i'm driving my cl 65 amg, my twin turbo, v12, potentially 800 horsepower car. It's bouncing around like crazy, probably ruining something back there. I don't care, i'm driving. It first drive oh yeah, i felt something.

Maybe i should get a reliable audi and, ladies and gentlemen, as the sun sets on this beautiful fall day in chicago. I am a defeated man. I am a defeated man. This is where we stand.

I have taken all the lines all the valve blocks off. I've done it all, as you guys have seen, and i don't know what's wrong with it. The good news is, we got the front to come up. It's does a half of a rodeo.

I did replace the engine fan so that works now um, so we've gotten somewhere, not all, is lost but uh. I can't really drive it more than a few blocks around the neighborhood. It's actually probably rubbing on those nice new michelins that hoovey put on before he sold it to me, but uh anyway guys. I said this would be the first drive video it is.

It went horribly horribly wrong, but that is the real world and i have some other cars. I have to move on to um and i just wanted to give you guys an update on this. Obviously so i will get back on the cl, i'm always on the cl. Really at this point in between other videos and uh, i will figure this out.

We will one day drive this car with a functioning suspension. So before i get blinded by the sun, i'm gon na, let you guys go if you enjoyed this madness again, give it a big thumbs up share the video subscribe if you're new and, most importantly god - i don't want to say this - don't get a car with Hydraulic suspension, ah it's so nice when it works, just be prepared, be prepared. The boy scout motto: i'll see you in the next video you.