Inspection - What do we have after all this time.

June 2015

So now that the car is in my garage I thought I would have a poke around to see what kind of state its in.  Because of all the junk in the garage I can only really get at the front end so I have started there.

 Engine - Not ran since 2008

 ABS Control unit and electrics

Look at the muck 

 Scuttle Panel

 CPU's

 Battery Tray

 Coilpack

Engine Fusebox

Inlet Manifold and Throttle 

Engine mount.  I had painted this last time I had the part off.  Looks ok, will probably brush up ok.

Ignition module.  Rather crusty fasteners 

Not sure what this thing is, but it needs cleaned. 

ABS Module - I will attempt to recommission.  Most people with old 405's remove this.  Lets see what I can do.

Crusty Master Cylinder.

Hmmm - This may need replaced.

Will need to remove to see it.

Brake reservoir - Yes that is moss on the scuttle panel.

Lots to do....

Axle on and moving the car to its new home.

30 May 2015

So as I indicated previously I am losing the storage on my brothers drive as he is moving house.  Hence the car has to move.  You'll also remember that the car is sitting in the air with no rear axle fitted.  Like this....

To make things easy I popped the wheels on the axle.  Surprisingly these held air!!

 

 I then rolled it under the car.

Bolting it on with the original bolts, new ones can no longer be obtained from Peugeot.

I then lowered the car back onto 4 wheels for the first time since 2008.  I made a small error though.  You may recall when I was building the rear axle I did not manage to bolt the dampers at each end. Unfortunately when lowering the car I failed to spot these had swung down and were the first items to contact the ground.  This resulted in irreparable damage to the dampers which are now for the bin.  No matter.  I'l just need to buy another set, they were not expensive.

We then fitted a spare set of alloys from my old Peugeot 406 to the front as the tyres were wrecked.  We then pushed onto the road ready for the trailer.

Looks pretty much ready to drive away!!  If only.

Rope attached to pull onto trailer.

On the trailer and ready to go to its new home.

Tucked away in the new home.

Pretty tight length ways!!

Fair bit of junk up the sides at the moment from my Brothers house move.  Only temporary hopefully.

So now, no excuses.  I can get on and restore properly!

Wish me luck.

Building the Axle

Feb - March 2015

I moved the new bare axle to my home where I have a garage.  I purchased a number of new parts to rebuild the axle from Peugeot. 

This included some new brake backing plates.  I had not expected to be able to buy these new.  

Not wishing them to rust I decided to paint them.

I gave the bare axle a coat too.

I then started the rebuild.  Starting with bump stops.  It turned out the axle was from a Partner van hence the bolt holes were 12mm rather than the 10mm that the 405 had.  I had to drill out the bump stop holes a couple of mm to enable fitment.

More rebuild.  Now on with backing plates.  Used new Peugeot bolts.

On with dampers.  I was unable to fit bolts in both ends.  Was unable at this stage to compress the torsion bar enough.  This will have to wait until its on the car.

 Readying the stub axle to fit hubs and bearings.

  

The hubs have bearings included.  I had bought these many years ago the last time I was rebuilding the car.  The grease has gone hard hence I decided to dismantle them and rebuild packed with new grease.

Then fitted the hubs.

Then on with brake pipes. 

 I had bought Peugeot pipes thinking that they would come with the correct bends etc.  I was wrong, they were just straight pipe of the correct length.  I could have made these myself.  Never mind.  They were not too expensive.

Fitted new Brake compensator.  The old one was badly corroded and spring was gone.

I had to drill and tap the ABS sensor mounting screw.  I had not noticed that this had sheared before I popped the part on.  Managed to get it out without any hassle.

Hubs ready to receive discs. 

 Stupidly I failed to take a completed axle pic.  :)

Pretty pleased with the way it turned out though.  A few things to tighten once its on the car and has weight on it.

Till next time....