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    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

pugtk Wrote: (02-01-2015, 09:46 AM) -- Mine uj was also splined but I changed it to a square drive from a 205. A 306 square uj should work also. Unless the rack is in a different place due to t...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 02-01-2015, 11:59 AM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

For the many critics on the bandwagon out there, dissapointingly you are not paying any attention to the words in the thread, you've just looked at the pictures. Firstly the steering collumn UJ, I c...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 02-01-2015, 12:57 AM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

darrenjlobb Wrote: (01-01-2015, 07:29 PM) -- Quote: -- Are you even for real?! -- Correct me if im wrong here....but are you honestly going to be attaching your SUBFRAME with that?! I wouldn't ...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 01-01-2015, 08:39 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

procta Wrote: (01-01-2015, 04:39 PM) -- A lot of engineering that is!  so this is practically a re bodied 306 now. -- Not too far off now, all the major work is done but its all the little ballache...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 01-01-2015, 05:33 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Steering Connection. I'd originally used the full 205 steering column with the 306 rack, but the 205 end was splined and the 306 wanted a square taper style end. So the same as everything else I ju...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 01-01-2015, 04:29 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Been away for xmas hence no recent updates. Hope you all had a nice holiday time etc. So the key part of this conversion really is making the 306 subframe fit the 205 body so this is a loooong po...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 01-01-2015, 03:34 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Uberderv Wrote: (11-12-2014, 05:01 PM) -- Fantastic stuff, really enjoying reading this :-) Your doing a great job at solving/fabricating problems and bits needed. Your idea about mounting the charge...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 11-12-2014, 06:29 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

SRowell Wrote: (11-12-2014, 04:33 PM) -- Interesting project! I would have used the XUD myself but each to their own! Will be awesome with a wide kit on it! -- Your damn right, its a much better id...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 11-12-2014, 06:07 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

The loom goes into the car via the scuttle using the standard 306 stuff. I had to cut a hole in the body to fit the connection in. With it living in the scuttle I was worried about water ingress into ...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 11-12-2014, 04:11 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Getting the remote central locking in was very awkward. The locking unit is much larger than the 205 unit and didn't fit in the standard place, so I had to move it down a few inches and the correspond...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 11-12-2014, 03:43 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Its so poverty spec that it doesnt even come with a '1.8d' badge! Just says 205 on the back. Tbh I think I'll stick the Hdi badge on it as I'm going to re-register it as a 2 litre. When it was on the ...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 11-12-2014, 03:11 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Procta that metro is porn, loving the sleeper hilarity bet you get some great looks when you clear off from people. I remember seeing a sleeper 106 thrash a bodykitted supra in a very illegal race, gu...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 11-12-2014, 01:18 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

sorry silver zx was in such a rush to get shot of the car in one day that I had no time to properly break it for parts. didnt even get the fuel pump off and it was a bosch :( So this pic you ca...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 10-12-2014, 05:41 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Peugeot obviously decided that crash protection wasn't necessary, but after one particular b-road session I decided that it would need a cage. I wasn't prepared to change the looks by adding a full ca...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 10-12-2014, 11:04 AM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Struggling to find a lot of my photos, really worried I've properly lost them in some hidden folder on an old computer :( So I'll confuse things by posting randomly instead of in order of the bui...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 10-12-2014, 09:40 AM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Uberderv just read your build, thats a mint job you've done. Thought you'd done it the hard way by buying just a motor but fair play its spot on what you've managed and the car is far tidier than mine...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 10-12-2014, 09:19 AM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

The 306 originally
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 06-12-2014, 06:15 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Here's a picture of an idiot (me) whose just realised that he's taken 2 perfectly good cars and wrecked them both on the vague chance of making them into one... Definitely the 'balls deep' stage.
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 06-12-2014, 06:14 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Uberderv mine was a 1.8d, the shafts were my big worry but thats only the start with hub and wishbone and brake changes... And when you have to change gearbox, diff, shafts, hubs, wishbones, en...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 06-12-2014, 06:10 PM
    Thread: 205 Hdi
Post: RE: 205 Hdi

Yea know what you mean about the abs but I just wasn't sure what to do about it.. in the end I couldn't make a decision so just plumbed it in and now at least I have the choice to use it or not. I thi...
dieselgeek Projects 102 30,800 04-12-2014, 11:04 PM
    Thread: Mystery plug number 2
Post: RE: Mystery plug number 2

Toms306 I think you might well be right with that one. I thought there was another identical one on the other side of the the loom at headlight area which would make sense if this is right. I've sold...
dieselgeek Electrics 4 1,016 04-12-2014, 06:06 PM
    Thread: Mystery plug number 2
Post: Mystery plug number 2

Given how easy it was for you lot to identify my last ballache mystery plug here's another one. Think it was coming out the same point in the loom as the right headlight but might have to check on ...
dieselgeek Electrics 4 1,016 04-12-2014, 03:41 PM
    Thread: Mystery plug, can anyone identify?
Post: RE: Mystery plug, can anyone identify?

miles Wrote: (02-12-2014, 11:45 PM) -- Loads of room for AC on a 205, Just about to start my 2nd install on one -- Maybe I need to try harder! I've got all the bits from my 306 but theres absolu...
dieselgeek Electrics 9 2,187 04-12-2014, 03:26 PM
    Thread: Mystery plug, can anyone identify?
Post: RE: Mystery plug, can anyone identify?

WiNgNuTz Wrote: (02-12-2014, 09:10 PM) -- Bridging it turns the ac switch in the cabin into a fan override. Not sure you'll be able to do that in the 205 though. ;) -- Thats clever! But your rig...
dieselgeek Electrics 9 2,187 02-12-2014, 10:56 PM
    Thread: Mystery plug, can anyone identify?
Post: RE: Mystery plug, can anyone identify?

Nice one guys thanks for that, makes sense as I don't have any aircon stuff except the pump, no space for it on the 205. Pump stays on for now just to keep belt tension but at some point will be repla...
dieselgeek Electrics 9 2,187 02-12-2014, 09:02 PM