1966 404 Coupé Injection Restoration

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Today cadmium is mostly banned for environmental concerns and worker safety, in fact that's also why they offer the greenish chromate conversion coating and not the good old yellow one. Anyway that's true in Europe, I know that even asbestos isn't totally banned today in the U.S. so maybe it really is cadmium.

10-23-2017

Installed a few of the plated items.  Very bright!

10-29-2017

Today all I did is de-rust the front bumper mounts that are welded to the stainless steel bumpers - now well polished as you can see from last weekend's photos.  They had surface rust, which was cleaned off and painted with Zinga cold galvanizing.  None of this is visible once mounted on the car, but I object in principle to having any rist on anything attached to the car!  Tomorrow I should do the rear one, and then maybe finish polishing the aluminium grille bars and then reassemble the grille.  We will see.....

10-30-2017

I decided to do the grille today.  The bars are anodized aluminium and have some patina from road debris over the years.  All other marks were polished off by hand, not damaging the anodizing.  I then reassembled the five bars and put the brand new Peugeot crest that I bought in Sochaux in 2014 on (it came attached to a mid-sixties 403 grille).  Then I reassembled it with the newly rechromed grille frame.

I will put some 3M stoneguard on the crest.  I have several new spare turn signal lenses so I will leave them.  I think I will also leave the rest alone, other than maybe a tiny strip on the forward facing edge of the front of the rocker panels, just behind the front wheels.  I can't put anything on the Z-Beams as they are too convex, I think.