Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[chaseracer]

Is that the original UK reg, or a DVLA re-plate?

[Six-cylinder]

33 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Is that the original UK reg, or a DVLA re-plate?

The Peugeot 404 is an import in 2016 so the only British plate.

Its history is not clear, but it looks like it started life in Canada and/or the USA and I have found one picture of it on a Dutch plate. There is also a 2016 letter saying there is no VAT to pay which ties in it having been in the Netherlands. 

[richardmorris]

My first reaction to this photo was, oh he’s bought another car!

[Six-cylinder]

C15 put to work today with 3 different items completely unrelated!

[Andyrew]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

C15 put to work today with 3 different items completely unrelated!

Now thats a coaster!

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Andyrew said:

Now thats a coaster!

saw that the other day in the kitchen and wondered how big the tea mug was

[High Jetter]

Whopper?

[hairnet]

is there a bk near him

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Good luck with the 404, a car I've come to admire the more I've learnt about them. A nice summary of it here:

This lovely estate I photographed in Dusseldorf back in 2010 is probably my favourite of those I've seen:

Made for an interesting comparison with the DS....

 

[hairnet]

must go back

 

[High Jetter]

DS wins there though, lovely rear!

[Crackers]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Good luck with the 404, a car I've come to admire the more I've learnt about them. A nice summary of it here:

This lovely estate I photographed in Dusseldorf back in 2010 is probably my favourite of those I've seen:

Made for an interesting comparison with the DS....

 

Having never seen a 404 in the flesh before, I was expecting it to be a lot smaller in size than a DS but it clearly isn't. 

A pretty car - its proportions hide its size. 

[bobdisk]

Always thought it looked a bit like a Farina Austin A60/Morris Oxford, from a distance. 🤓

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday I collected our Mercedes 200TE following the replacement of the SLS (self levelling suspension) pipe that had bust and all is well now.

The result is 4 working estate cars on the drive.

[Six-cylinder]

9 hours ago, Crackers said:

Having never seen a 404 in the flesh before, I was expecting it to be a lot smaller in size than a DS but it clearly isn't. 

A pretty car - its proportions hide its size. 

In saloon car form the 404 is 384mm (15.1 inch's) shorter than the DS.

Come the spring I hope they will be out together for full comparison.

[bobdisk]

Can't wait 😻

[hairnet]

no bl chod in that photo ftw

 

[Six-cylinder]

Just now, hairnet said:

no bl chod in that photo ftw

It's winter, they are hiding!

[chaseracer]

12 hours ago, bobdisk said:

Always thought it looked a bit like a Farina Austin A60/Morris Oxford, from a distance. 🤓

Looks like maybe Battista had a Xerox machine and (arguably) a passing acquaintance with business ethics.

Ooh, what's this...?

[Six-cylinder]

21 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Looks like maybe Battista had a Xerox machine and (arguably) a passing acquaintance with business ethics.

Ooh, what's this...?

It has some similar features but a face only its mother could love it.

[Six-cylinder]

Today with Andrew from the TSSC we set about putting the Saab V4 engine back together. We cleaned lots of things and refitted the pistons, camshaft, cam followers, oil pump, timing gears and front plate. We then fitted the external pully to the balance shaft, which had to be torqued to 36 ft/lbs. This is when I mucked up, I was aware that some of  V4 timing wheels are made of fibre but while cleaning the one for the balance shaft thought it was metal as it was heavy. I used the gear to wedge the balance shaft when Andrew torqued up the bolt for the external pully and chipped a small bit of fibre away.

I called Adrian who I bought the Saab from and part of the deal was a load of spares I have not collected yet. Yes he thinks there are spare timing wheels but he is away this weekend. He says he will look it out next week and bring it over. 

Andrew is going to help me reassemble the Saab engine and then I would like to get it and replacement fuel tank back in the car so it can drive it to under cover storage. I know it is cold with short days but I am thinking if we can raise a possy between Christmas and New Year, pop the engine back in and drive the car at last it would be great. So what what do you think about working off some of that Christmas excess?

[Crackers]

37 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

if we can raise a possy between Christmas and New Year, pop the engine back in and drive the car at last it would be great. So what what do you think about working off some of that Christmas excess?

100% up for this if you don't mind me getting in the way. 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Looks like maybe Battista had a Xerox machine and (arguably) a passing acquaintance with business ethics.

Ooh, what's this...?

Fiat? Rings a bell but am too pissed to answer.

[Saabnut]

Looks like I will be travelling through from France to Sheffield during that week so if I can make it work I will come along.

[chaseracer]

12 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Fiat? Rings a bell but am too pissed to answer.

Yep - 1800.

[chaseracer]

14 hours ago, Crackers said:

100% up for this if you don't mind me getting in the way. 

Same!

[beko1987]

Could be about! More so Wednesday onwards in that week though. 

[Six-cylinder]

It turns out Shire horses really like Peugeot 404s!

With @Zelandethhelp we got the 404 fired up today without too much trouble. 

We noticed it is sucking air in the fuel filter and there is visible cracking on a rubber fuel pipe that needs attending to.

There is also a hot restart problem.

Temperature held steady and the right side indicator warning light works.

All in all I would call the first start up in my ownership a great success and we did drive 0.9km.

 

[Six-cylinder]

Our Alfa 156 V6 Sportswagon has turned over 111111 miles this week.

[BL Bloke]

Good to see that the 404 started and was able to drive up and down the field.  🙂

I can come down in the week after Christmas, not sure how much use I'd be though. If you still need wood for the shelving in the container I can bring some down with me.