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Ugh, still digging into this trying to find the issue. Hot humid weather in a garage sure don't make it any more pleasant. Been touching base with Ridetech too. It seems my valve block was set up where only one coil & one line is piped to raise the car as shown below. It appears coil #1 shown in the photo is the only one to raise the car and coil #2 just sits there with no function. After much bleeding hands working from above I was able to switch coil 1 & 2 and in doing so I now definitely hear a click in the valve block when I operate the switch to raise the car. But WTF the car will still not raise up. The wife pressed the up button while I felt the coil & valve block but I could still not tell by feel which coil was clicking. There's definitely air pressure in the tank because when I clicked the car on the compressor worked to fill the tank for about a minute and then shut off (like it should). I even went back in to try and take the valve stem out of location #1 like it shows in this link below. Got the coil off easily, but it aint as easy as it shows in the video link below to remove the valve stem due to it being on so tight! Screwdriver on the top in close quarters doesn't work well at all, then I tried to double nut it and that didn't work well since the threads on the valve stem are not very long for 2 nuts. Then vice grip without room to work didn't go well either. I may try and grind down a couple nuts to fit on the valve stem better and try the double nut method again. I just wish I knew which coil was clicking, or maybe both are. Anyway, what a stinking delema. I don't know how you guys have patience with these cars. I may end up trying to sell all 3 at once as I am finding 8 cars are eating up my entire life. Nice cars are such love/hate, almost like the ex-wife.

Ridetech video showing how to service the valve block:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHVYSgVhjqs

IMG_2364Ridetech by JanDaMan, on Flickr
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