Peugeot 406 - C U L8R 406

[beko1987]

Well true, the whole car is a bit knocky in general, but it might turn a fail for the boot into an advisory for pondering later in the year.

 

Knowing that the cars had a good service history with Mr £95pug, half of me imagines its probably been changed before and won't be seized in with 195k of dirt!

[scdan4]

Do you want me to post the sockets? Or do you fancy meeting halfway?

 

There is a possible option of you coming here and me trying to help you do it... but that would need the diary gods to approve, and probably won’t help much as I don’t know what I’m doing and don’t have a workshop, but if you don’t want to face it alone...

[beko1987]

That's mightily tempting, where are you in the world?

[scdan4]

Sunny swindon, so not local, but not too far away.

[beko1987]

Mmmm. Whilst I thank you for the offer, it fills me with dread that halfway through the job something goes SNAP and I'm suddenly stranded far from home!

 

Happily pay postage both ways for the removal tool though! At least if it goes SNAP outside my back gate I can WFH/borrow the Zafira

[scdan4]

Pm me your address and I’ll send them your way.

 

No problems, but just for avoidance of doubt, if you did fuck it, I’d give you a lift home

[beko1987]

And back again to try again the next weekend?

 

Cheers for the tool though, I'll Pm you later tonight!

[Tepper]

If you need a hand with the ABS, I have a Lexia and I'm not too far from you - would be happy to scan it for you.

[beko1987]

Oooh that's a plan! The abs light hasn't come back on all week so I'm playing the 'ignore it' game at the moment, but would be nice to plug it in anyway and see what's what! Turn the auto wiper sensitivity up for a start...

 

Might take you up on that after the mot!

[beko1987]

I now own the wheels and tyres on my car! Thanks Mr Moog and Mr NJLeeds, paypal/local brewery spending done! Mr Moog will get some post hopefully tomorrow

 

Plans? Well, MOT is up on the 17th...

 

Tomorrow I will deposit myself and the car on my friends driveway, where I have a boot full of stuff to hopefully be done by us:

 

Both front lower balljoints (thank you so much Mr scdan4 for the loan on the tool!)

both front strut top bearings (a mate at work lent me some spring compressors)

3 cans of brake cleaner and a can of plusgas for rear brake caliper fettling, and possibly front if we can be arsed but their OK)

a pack of ebay finest* quality ratchet straps to try and get the battery secured

Need to piss about with the horn and hope it's just the connectors like it was on the laguna...

[paulscavalier]

If it’s the column stalk I have a spare 405 one. If it helps.

[The Moog]

Good luck with the fiddling and remember photos for the strange people on the internet!

[beko1987]

If it’s the column stalk I have a spare 405 one. If it helps.

Nope, squab type. So if it's not the connectors it's steering wheel off. Hoping it plays ball and works with a hard shove like the Zafira does and passed fine...

 

I've got stalk issues, common davcomm problem which is a £7 part, but I want to do that after the test incase I put the airbag light on or something annoying

[beko1987]

Well, unless 405 ones drop in and work? Do miss a stalk horn, makes so much more sense to me

[mrbenn]

Good luck with the fettling!

[paulscavalier]

Well, unless 405 ones drop in and work? Do miss a stalk horn, makes so much more sense to me

I did wonder if it might. But having looked in more detail the fog lights are on the stalk on the ones I leave just looked at but so is the horn.

On my cavalier when it happened I was able to disconnect the airbag off the steering wheel without actually unplugging it. And was able to check the connections on the wheel itself and I was lucky that with all the turning off the wheel over the years the connection had come off from the horn buttons.

[beko1987]

This isn't going well. We haven't achieved anything bar now making the thing undrivable!

 

We can't stop the hub turning when we lean on the breaker bar. The straps I bought for holding the battery down are not cutting it... Bar finding some better straps, does anyone have any ideas?

 

[cms206]

Well, unless 405 ones drop in and work? Do miss a stalk horn, makes so much more sense to me

My pre-facelift 406 had a stalk horn. Much preferred it inside to the 03-plate one I had.

 

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[strangeangel]

We can't stop the hub turning when we lean on the breaker bar. The straps I bought for holding the battery down are not cutting it... Bar finding some better straps, does anyone have any ideas?

 

A crowbar between two of the wheel studs and braced against the ground?

[Andyrew]

Are you trying to undo the driveshafts crown nut?

[Andyrew]

Or a lower ball joint nut?

[beko1987]

Are you trying to undo the driveshafts crown nut?

No, the lower balljoint. We have excellent purchase on it, but the hub turns. The drives haft came out (should push back in) and we tore the cv boot (which might be bodgable)

[Lacquer Peel]

I got this strap from B&M for £3 for the Passat. Does the 406 have a solid battery tray to hook on to?

 

 

If you're undoing the driveshaft nut, put the road wheel back on and lower it, they're on pretty tight and you need a lot of resistance.

Edit for up to date reply, can you brace the hub with a long bar or something?

[beko1987]

My mates going to have a look tomorrow, we didn't have a very long bar today.

[Andyrew]

If you fitted the tie rod back in I assume its in the way?

[beko1987]

No it wasn't too bad with the tie rods in or out. We were just at the 'let's try that stage'

[beko1987]

Arfur_foxhake, you got a portable oxy kit and a spare morning tomorrow? Aylesbury...

[beko1987]

[MrBiscuits]

This isn't going well. We haven't achieved anything bar now making the thing undrivable!

 

We can't stop the hub turning when we lean on the breaker bar. The straps I bought for holding the battery down are not cutting it... Bar finding some better straps, does anyone have any ideas?

 

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Find a big screwdriver that fits into the vents on the disc, then wedge that against the caliper carrier?

[paulscavalier]

Soak the offending bit in wd40 for the night, hopefully it will penetrate it and help.