1966 404 Coupé Injection Restoration

3 minute(s) of a 255 minute read

Thanks to Bruno Garovo for sending the right set of bearings which arrived today (anyone need a set of Lead-Indium 0.3 mm mains for a very early KF 3 main bearing engine?).

I also got back from the powder coater the valve cover, timing cover, sump, coil holder and spare wheel.  Photo taken just now in Victoria in the smart hatch, in the light rain.

8-8-2020

I think every engine peugeot made was unpainted or thin black paint. Because of that when the time come to paint the V6 HDI in my 607 i chose to mix me a unique grey color.

8-10-2020

Unrelated to the restoration but I got these today.  English language 504 C manual (my Dad wanted to buy one when we lived in the Netherlands in 1971 but he was told it would be illegal to import to Canada, which I think was wrong because he was in the armed forces and could have brought a non-conforming car back).  French language 404 cabriolet manual, first edition I think.  1963 catalogue of all the various vehicles Peugeot made in that model year.

8-18-2020

I don't know if having removable brass sludge traps in a forged steel crankshaft is a common thing, but Peugeots had that for a long time, from the 1940s through the 1980s.  It's tempting not to remove the hex-headed brass plugs because they are staked in place and unstaking (reversing the damage to the thread is difficult and it's easy to damage the brass, in which case the plug will have to be drilled out.  I am using a Dremel to do the unstaking.  The first one I tried before the Dremel is now stuck.  This one worked better.

You can see inside the trap, there is a medium grey deposit that looks as though it might be part of the casting is sludge, the consistency of slightly moist clay.  There is not a lot of oil passage left clear and a couple of the oiling points on the front centre and rear mains were partially blocked too.  Ao, if restoring a Peugeot engine if the XC or XM/XN series, don't skip this step!

I also got from Jean-Marc Faivre in France a free pair of the banjo fittings that my car has likely been missing for three years! Very generous!