Watch me make a stupid mistake - Peugeot 504 Break L

[stuboy]

20 minutes ago, meowmeow said:

i hope treats were duly offered

[meowmeow]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

i hope treats were duly offered

haha no he is fat enough already

did give him a hug though, which was not appreciated

[Noel Tidybeard]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

i hope treats were duly offered

shouldn't reward stupidity

[meowmeow]

more sacrificing from the old Golf bonnet

hoping it'll provide just enough metal for all the rust repairs except the cills and the boot floor - swear I'm not a cheapskate

patch installed, sealed, painted etc...

from the factory the primer is just lazily sprayed all over the engine bay - tried to replicate this with whatever I had, won't be very noticeable once the engine is back in

Brake and clutch master cylinders re-installed -

 

Cue upgrade for the work-bathroom cabinet. Can't believe it took me so long to be bothered to buy a vice

no more holding stuff to the ground with my feet to keep it still !

new brake lines for the front, also painted the cross-member with more lovely iron fence paint

Unfortunately (yet unsurprisingly) the bolt for the 5-way union snapped, so just drilled it out and popped a longer bolt through it

Keep telling myself I'll re-tap it properly at some point but...

also look carefully and joy of joys there's another rust hole in the other buttress thingy

only a baby one though

 

was busy trying to remove the O/S front caliper when I heard something on the roof:

a creature visits

caliper off, spiders included

brake discs weirdly have no lip whatsoever, and the bearings are good

lazy boy here will clean em up and reuse.

 

short interlude as mother's iron finally tripped the thermal fuse

tis a bit old says made in W.Germany on the side

pistons out - actually don't look too bad

but the same can't be said for the bleeder screw...

tool creation time

which promptly snapped off inside the caliper.

ok, let's try something else then:

which didn't work either, but did set fire to the cloth in this photo.

 

So I got fed up and returned to the only thing I'm good at - painting things with dubious paint the wrong colour:

  

  

 

Back to the task in hand, probably better to just drill the bugger out

what's that Blondie song? gonna get'cha get'cha get'cha get'cha

 

was feeling ok about this till I realised I'd forgotten the springs clips, and that I'd bloody painted them with non-heat-resistant paint

So stripped, repainted (properly this time) and reassembled...

 

So it didn't feel left out I got the Golf a shitty sticker

 

then the clutch cable snapped and I had to walk home

left the only tube of bearing grease I had in the boot so I can't reassemble the hub and refit the caliper on the 504 till next week

 

also i forgot last time to provide chicken tiles update:

  

 

and that back in March I checked insurance quotes for the 504 and got this:

for context the Golf is about £400 for me to insure

guess it pays to buy something weird - when was the last time someone crashed a Peugeot 504 estate?

 

[meowmeow]

On 10/08/2024 at 20:23, meowmeow said:

brake discs weirdly have no lip whatsoever, and the bearings are good

Ok first things first, that was a complete lie as it turns out:

 

Yeah, not supposed to do that is it

So replaced the bearings, re-greased and reassembled, with caliper and hoses:

 

Next, let's have a look at the clutch and pressure plate

 

toast.

Flywheel looked a bit sad as well but it'll clean up:

 

Painted the engine block while I waited for the new clutch disc to arrive in the post:

oil pan has a fat arse dent in the front so will have to come off and be repaired at some point.

also filed off the decades worth of baked on oil leak from the exhaust manifold:

and sorted that small rust hole in the other 'buttress', and painted to match the O/S:

 

PEOGOET ?

New pressure plate and clutch fitted:

something weird had happened to the grease on the pressure plate surface,  (guessing it had been in storage for well over 10 years before I bought it) - took ages to get it all off...

also quite difficult tightening bolts while the engine was swinging from the hoist

 

Had to buy another caliper for the N/S as the one on the car was fucked inside, so same process again

didn't take any pics as it's the same as the O/S one.

Hub was making the most horrendous sound, turns out the disc shield was somehow bent:

Repaired the lip and painted:

And both calipers re-installed:

I have the clip thingy somewhere for the N/S caliper, will refit it at some point

 

Last hole to repair:

fucking stupid location - welding upside down with not enough space between the hoist legs, the floor of the car, the suspension, the wall of the garage, the increased size of my head with the welding mask on...

managed to set fire to the car, a sponge, the carpet, my shirt and my hair (it still smells weird now)

 

 

Anyway, with that out of the way, went to install the N/S front brake hose and was greeted by this weirdness:

That's not standard fit...

So removed it and tried to screw the hose directly into the caliper - doesn't fit !

Somehow the guy who rebuilt the caliper last has converted it to 3/8 pitch threads - on a French car !!!!

Looking at my sad M10 thread brake hose:

Don't fancy buying another hose so will chance it with an adapter and see how we get on...