I have blown the top out of 3 hydro bags in the past 25 years.
1 at Oran Park in 1980.
1 at Amaroo in 1980.
1 driving around the streets in 1984.
I have not blown one since then!

I have one start leaking where the hose connects to the bag (2003)

Hey guys, i have been reading these forums for a whlle now, and have converted my 1971 mini k to dry syspention.

Amount spent on conversion = $0.00 reason for this is that i was lucky enough to have a complete smashed mini on hand .. dont ask ....
I did this for a few reasons, first was one of my hyrdro dysplacers went flat, second was that the car handled like crap with the standard hydro setup, and third because i could
My syspention didnt have any shockers fitted only springs that looked like they were taken from someones trampoline so we swaped the subframes over and the difference was amazing, the hydro setup was painfull to drive with .. expencive to mantain, esp when things go wrong as in my case and i would have had to drive 2 hours just to get it pumped up. And try to find a machanic that knows anything about it ..

i have since added a set of koni ajustables and it's better again, love the sporty handling you get from a dry syspention, and lets face it, If hrydro was that good new cars today would still be fitted with it

Just my 2c

regards,
Zoike.

Some are/ were (until recently at least) one of the french manufacturers further developed the idea of hydrolastics thier design included a hydrolastic pump to maintain pressure and I think more of an air cushion before the displacers started to move fluid may have been some other changes as well.

It is not unsual I think for good designs to be bypassed and forgotted for one reason or another also technology changes making a previously expensive, unreliable, impractical etc design feasible again and sometimes bad marketing or initial teething problems see a good design fail.

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