Peugeot 504 coupe

17,507 · February 7

I hope it tastes better than it looks.

1,985 · February 7

A bit bland. I had the beef stew with mash on the ferry on Thursday and that was nice. They don't seem to change the menu.

1,985 · February 7

Still here. Thank God

1,985 · February 7

French supermarket food. Why can't we get this in Asda?

1,985 · February 7

Nearly home

1,985 · February 20

Two week in update.

Last night I paid the NOVA. Unless you are VAT registered you can't do it yourself and have to use an agent. I used https://mycarimport.co.uk/ and they were great. When you first approach them they give you a quote to do everything but once I spoke to them on the phone they offered to do just the NOVA for £120, and said that if I decide later to do the rest with them then they would discount it by £120 which seems very reasonable.

Even if France I realised that the engine was noisy and only running on three cylinders, and had no dipstick. Someone had just put a bolt into the block where the dipstick tube is supposed to be.

I got a dipstick tube and dipstick and fitted it, and found that the oil in it was at a good level and looked clean, so that was a win.

By pulling HT leads I found out that cylinder number 2 was doing nothing, so swapped the injectors 2 & 3 and found that the dead cylinder now moved to number 3.

I bought an injector and fitted that yesterday and now it runs on all four, but was still a bit knocky/tappy.

Today I checked the valve clearances and exhaust number 3 was 1.1mm instead of 0.25mm. I set all the clearances correctly and now the engine sounds lovely.

I also topped up the power steering fluid and the power steering briefly started working but very quickly it just dumped all the fluid on the floor, however I'm happy that it's under the pump and not the rack. I have a new pump now but I'm missing a belt pulley for it.

Inspection of the bodywork has resulted in a hole in the drivers floorpan, but no where else. It's in one spot so I will have make a repair patch and weld it in.

My friend Ben had a go at stripping the bonnet but it's painted with some wierd very tough paint that paint stripper ahrdly seems to touch. A sander revealed that they are about ten coats of paint on it. So we decided to get the bonnet and both doors dipped and today stripped the second door of internals.

I have to decide what to do about a passenger door mirror because none of them came with mirrors on the right, but I really want one. The left side is very similar to a Granada Mk2 remote control chrome mirror so I got a similar right side Granada one on ebay. The problems are:-

if you fit it in the same place as the left one you can't actually see anything as it's obscured by the A pillar and door frame.

it's angled out too far.

I think that the answer is to move the left mirror back a couple of cm (the door skin around the mirror isn't great anyway) so that one put on the other side clears the door frame, and, to remove the glass from the Granada mirror and fit some kind of wedge under the glass to get the angle right.

What I really need is a right side remote control chrome door mirror from a left hand drive Granada, but that doesn't feel achievable.

I'm just going to keep tinkering as parts arrive and time allows. Sorry for the lack of photos.

7,753 · February 20

Lovely car and well done on the collection mission, it did seem a stressful experience at a few points but you did and it's fine to what looks like the perfect home 😀😀

7,753 · February 20

We went to IKEA in Almeria the other day with the lad to get him some bits with the hire car.

The Mrs said she was a bit peckish and we got a bite to eat.

A jamon Baguette was like €3 and really nice, came with a little pot of olive oil and a pot of chopped tomatoes as well.

I had some churros and a coffee with the choc sauce and it was also I think €3.

Was really good quality as well.

Deffo the standard of food is higher in Europe and in my experience much better value for money 👍🏻👍🏻.

2,842 · February 21

Surprised I missed this collection caper, can't have been paying attention. This must be a late one as it has the facelifted front/rear with a four cylinder? Has it got the Kugelfischer injection or carburetor?

These things rust for fun especially the early ones. I was fortunate enough to own one about twenty five years ago, was the most stylish car I've ever owned and I felt a million dollars driving it. Until I mistakenly put what I thought was petrol out of a fuel can into it and it turned out to be water. Those injection engines didn't need any encouragement to go wrong.

Looking forward to seeing more pics as you get stuck into it!

1,985 · February 21

It's a 1978 with 2L Kugelfischer and automatic transmission.

10,720 · February 22

Very lovely. From back when a Peugeot was a proper quality car right up there with BMW and Rover.

1,985 · February 22

I see my 604 as a kind of french Mercedes. My understanding is that in parts of Africa people want either a 504/505 or a W123.

The coupe/cabriolet was made of thinner steel than the saloon and they do like to rust more. Mine is remarkably solid.

I found the hole in the floor, and there's filler in the bottom of the left front wing and between the left door and rear wheel arch, but very little else.

Places that coupes normally rust, which mine hasn't:-

Inner sills

Bottom of A pillar

Rear arches

Bottom corners of rear screen and parcel shelf.

I have been told that the Series 2 & 3 are less rust prone than Series 1. People seem to prefer series 1 but I have always preferred the single piece wide headlamps of the series 2, and you get a wider track and power steering.

I get that three separate straked rear lights on a series 1 are nicer (and inspiration for the rear lights on modern Peugeots) but to me they look like a 60s car and I was a child of the 70s/80s and that's the period of car that I like.

39,264 · February 22

I also missed this and it has reminded me what I have in our garage.

Last time I had mine out it missed fired badly, which I think is the Kugelfischer inj. Also the front n-s wheel fell off and skidding along the road knocked some rust out which will need repairing.

Mine is one of the UK converted right hand drive cars and has been fitted with a 5 speed 505 gearbox.

I got mine in 2009 as a major project and have done a lot of work but never managed to cross the finish line!

1,985 · February 22

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Last time I had mine out it missed fired badly, which I think is the Kugelfischer inj.

What worked for me was to first identify which cylinder has the problem, by pulling HT leads one by one until I found the cylinder where it makes no difference.

Then I swapped the injector belonging to the bad cylinder with a good one.

The problem moved with the injector which told me that it was the injector causing the misfire.

There is a video on how to recondition injectors yourself, but I haven't tried it yet. I'll find it later and post the link.

39,264 · February 22

1 hour ago, dieselnutjob said:

What worked for me was to first identify which cylinder has the problem, by pulling HT leads one by one until I found the cylinder where it makes no difference.

Then I swapped the injector belonging to the bad cylinder with a good one.

The problem moved with the injector which told me that it was the injector causing the misfire.

There is a video on how to recondition injectors yourself, but I haven't tried it yet. I'll find it later and post the link.

I think the first thing is to get the valves in the block cleaned again. The valves are spring up and gravity down. When I first got it I had to have it done.

1,985 · February 22

Vid of mine running

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/mzGPh4Ce8Hw

1,985 · February 22

and a vid that my friend Ben did of the injector that was causing my misfire.

https://youtube.com/shorts/UfcUZhK0tkE

1,985 · February 22

Vid of someone repairing a Kugelfischer injector. I will give this a go myself at some point

https://youtu.be/xvBoA529xRI

39,264 · February 22

1 hour ago, dieselnutjob said:

Vid of mine running

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/mzGPh4Ce8Hw

This is just showing off!😀

39,264 · February 22

1 hour ago, dieselnutjob said:

Vid of someone repairing a Kugelfischer injector. I will give this a go myself at some point

https://youtu.be/xvBoA529xRI

When are you coming to fix mine then!

17,507 · February 22

8 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I also missed this and it has reminded me what I have in our garage.

Last time I had mine out it missed fired badly, which I think is the Kugelfischer inj. Also the front n-s wheel fell off and skidding along the road knocked some rust out which will need repairing.

Mine is one of the UK converted right hand drive cars and has been fitted with a 5 speed 505 gearbox.

I got mine in 2009 as a major project and have done a lot of work but never managed to cross the finish line!

They are such a sexy car, always loved the design.

9,460 · February 22

I had a couple of these around 2009. I much prefered the early car with the twin headlights and the much nicer rear lights, The downside on them hasalways been the fuel injection. The ideal would be an early style but with the later V6. Prices are now firming up so I doubt I will have another, I sold my last pair to a guy from Kuwait who exported them for restoration. I have bought loads of cars from France unseen and this was the only one I felt ripped off with as it was nothing like as described but driving all the way to Lyon I still bought it.

1,985 · February 23

The Kugelfischer engine was quite popular in Australia (four door saloon 504) and some of them appear to have converted their cars to EFI.

Hopefully I won't need to but if things go south it's an option.

1,985 · February 24

I have to either find somewhere that sells these lock wafers or make them myself

17,507 · February 24

13 minutes ago, dieselnutjob said:

I have to either find somewhere that sells these lock wafers or make them myself

Do you not have an old lock you can cannibalise? Also, not sure if you know, but the 604blog link in your sig seems to not be working.

1,985 · February 24

They appear to be made of 26 thou or 0.66mm stainless steel

1,985 · February 24

12 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Do you not have an old lock you can cannibalise? Also, not sure if you know, but the 604blog link in your sig seems to not be working.

I don't have any spare 504/604 lock barrels (they are made by Neiman). If anyone has some that take this kind of key

Please can I have? I don't need keys, just door lock barrels.

The 604 blog link should work now.

17,507 · February 24

6 minutes ago, dieselnutjob said:

The 604 blog link should work now.

It now takes you to a page where you can click to get here:

I'd just put that in your sig, TBH. I see that's a Brighton reg car, do you still have that one?

1,985 · February 24

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

It now takes you to a page where you can click to get here:

I'd just put that in your sig, TBH. I see that's a Brighton reg car, do you still have that one?

yes I do. And today I was offered another two doors which is perfect as it's exactly what I needed.

1,985 · February 24

44 minutes ago, dieselnutjob said:

I have to either find somewhere that sells these lock wafers or make them myself

these look kind of similar, maybe the same with just an internal bump that I'd have to file off https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185515678521

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