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According to the present invention there is provided a vehicular height adjusting device capable of diminishing a shock caused by a sudden change in pressure of an accumulator oil chamber at the time of adjusting the vehicular height to adjust the vehicular height in a gentle manner and capable of diminishing a beat noise of an opening/closing valve generated by the vehicular height adjusting operation, thereby improving the comfortableness. The vehicular height adjusting device comprises a shock absorber disposed between the body of a vehicle and an axle, an accumulator mounted within the shock absorber and communicating therewith, a pump mechanism for supplying oil to the shock absorber and the accumulator, and a control orifice formed in the shock absorber to control the height of the shock absorber, the shock absorber comprising a cylinder, an outer shell disposed outside the cylinder, a reservoir defined between the cylinder and the outer shell, a hollow piston rod inserted into the cylinder movably through a piston valve, a rod-side oil chamber, and an antirod-side oil chamber, the rod-side oil chamber and the antirod-side oil chamber being partitioned from each other within the cylinder by means of the piston valve, the pump mechanism comprising a pump cylinder disposed within the piston rod and a hollow pump rod extending upright from the bottom of the cylinder, the pump mechanism supplying in its extending and retracting operations a pressure oil in the reservoir to both a shock absorber-side oil chamber and an accumulator-side oil chamber, and the control orifice causing the accumulator-side oil chamber to communicate with the reservoir at a predetermined position to set the shock absorber at a predetermined height, wherein an induction valve IV is mounted at an upper end portion of the pump rod 121, and the pump mechanism operates in only an area in which a suction port 121C formed on the downstream side of the induction valve is not closed by an upper end portion of the pump cylinder 114. <IMAGE>
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