1966 404 Coupé Injection Restoration

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Good point.

The first Purflux fuel filter assembly I had vapour blasted was the wrong one (from a wreck that had a lot of undrained water inside it) and it had very deep pitting cavities inside the bowl as a result. So the blasting shop offered to do another better one. This happened today and the result is much better mainly because the inside of the canister was far less affected by corrosion. You can see both here, with the better canister on the far right.

9-10-2020

I got my second set of 0.5 mm oversized main bearings from Israel today.  The first set (with the half red/half blue label) from Peugeot Classic in France had chattering marks on two or three of the shells from improper storage in the distant past.  The Israel-sourced ones are excellent!

My 404's original heater tube, which takes hot coolant from the water pump to the heater core is beyond repair.  The carbureted engines have a similar tube but its secondary water outlet is in a totally different location.  However, the only new one available is for the carbureted engine, so I bought one of them at DEPANOTO and will have it modified in a local welding shop to adapt to the Injection engine format.