Peugeot 206 - XUD9 VNT Lash Up

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Right, after a bit of thought on lowering (which I thought I would never do) I decided to drop the rear end a tad, and I have also fitted the coilovers so it would be rude not to.

Never lowered anything before I seeked out the help from the cornish lad. So drove off down there on Sunday and backed the car into the workshop.

Wheels off and started wire brushing the shiz out of everything and spraying all threads with penetrating fluid.

Anti-roll bar came out relatively easy but we faced the issue of the lower shock absorber nut and bolt. The grinder came into play.

Managed to get the eccentric washers removed and got the bearing puller out and setup. Got the trailing arm to then slide off fairly well.





Notice the quad wheel used to prop the trailing arm up.

On inspection of the bearings they were all still complete and the beam itself had no wear in it which was a bonus.



Got the arm propped up



Started taking the driver side apart and Ruan rolled up in his new Volvo estate, provided entertainment with turbo noises as per usual (which made my day, I might add) and cleaned up my torsion bars and various bolts. Also Chris racked up in the landy and as always, useful to have to help.

The torsion bar would not release on the drivers side, we even removed the whole trailing arm which meant taking the handbrake cable off and disconnecting the brake line. The inner bearing did decide to fall apart due to having to smash the arm off with the hammer (puller wouldn’t work on driver side)



Annoying the torsion bar still didn’t want to let go despite using a ‘farm spec’ sledgehammer on it.





Started putting it back together and with the other torsion bar in we still managed to lower it the desired amount of 30mm.

Connect all the brakes back up and put the wheels on and this is how it sat.



And one of the helping hands. Kudos to all for helping.



With the front dropped a little more





Popped up to see Frosty's progress on his DT, was in the middle of removing his turbo. Offered to check the tracking on the 206. Then spent a bit of time removing his turbo for installing his EGT probe.





Still things planned....just waiting for Mr Postman.

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