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Nope. No springs at the ends.
Firstly, some cars don’t have dipping headlights – but they are few and far between. if your car has all the other light dipping parts then i assume they were fitted and working at some previous point.
Have you looked at the parts manual? part 8 in this drawing is the spring that does the work. You say the adjusters (which are quite long BTW) don’t even contact the light units? Maybe your baseline ‘normal driving’ position is set up wrong in terms of the nylon adjusters and the two wires to the front and rear torsion bars Are you sure those wires are free to move? there is a damper on the RHS wing. Is that correctly adjusted? Are the headlight units correctly engaged on the ball joints of the light housings?
I’m pleased to leave those questions for the rear arm boys!
Replacing the front hub bearings – special tools
If your bearings are worn (not very likely btw) it’s MUCH simpler to find other second hand bearings rather than change yours. The first thing you’ll need to buy is a 4 x 4 with a heavy diesel engine……
Bearings….
On the front arms, Citroen part ZC 9620 049U is two pieces – a bearing and it’s race/ cone. Both pieces are used in the arm. This/ these can be replaced with a modern 32206 which is a near-equivalent and is two pieces – bearing and race. The only difference is that the bearing part is 21.25mm deep/ thick rather than 21.5mm deep. All this means, is that the nut on the arm needs to be done up a little tighter.
Looking at the parts of the rear arms, Citroen part ZC 9620 053 U is just a bearing – no race. A race is not needed because (as you say) the contour of the arm sleeve fulfils that function.
I’m speculating but perhaps Citroen used two part numbers for front and rear arms because one part included the race and the other did not. From what we’ve both been saying, it looks as the bearing part is probably the same in both cases. The originals may well have been marked ‘32206’. A modern 32206 is slightly thinner that the bearing used on the front arm and so i’m going to assume is also slightly thinner than the original bearing used on the rear arm. because these are the ‘outer’ bearings – closer to the nut, then all one has to do is tighten the nut fractionally more to compensate for the thinner bearing.
Citroen 051s don’t seem to have a modern equivalent. Originals are pretty easy to find but have high prices – currently about £60 each. they can be found much cheaper.
The REALLY scarce bearing is the 115 U. they are hard to find and – if you do – are expensive. Prices are several hundred £. These are needed for the front arms, but not the rear.
Adjusters. I can part visualise what you propose. i’m looking forward to seeing what you can come up with.
Chrome trim across back of roof edge. Yes. that has VERY nasty clips. You remove the trim leaving the clips in situ: to remove, unhook the bottom edge from the lip of the clips and rotate it up. To refit, first engage the top edge over the top of the clips then rotate it down and under the lip. careful. it’s sharp.
Right. Found a 32207 and (probably because i found them cheap) it turns out i’d also speculatively bought a couple of Citroen ‘051s’ for when i tackle my rear arms. As suspected, it’s the inner diameters that are different: the modern, available, 32207 bearing has a liner causing the inner diameter to be parallel, whereas the Citroen bearing for arms needs tapered sides.
