Ben's Cabriolet

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Hey guys and gals long time no see.
Lots changed on the car but noone will notice haha just fixing all the gremlins as normal.

Take one day off, throw in some bravery pills and a morning coffee and you will end up with this



Thats

• Gates Cambelt Kit (Cambelt, tensioner and idler pulley)
  
• Power steering fluid (To try and solve my heavy steering)
  
• Power steering fluid (To try and solve my heavy steering)
  
• 4x std ngk twin earth spark plugs (BKR6EK 2288)
  
• Fully synthetic oil and filter
  
• sealent and threadlock
  
• And sat out of shoot is the antifreeze
  

A later edition after taking the aux belt of was well a aux belt....



some would say thats pretty much had it
and the cambelt?









Not much better safe to say that these look dare i say it original ???

So the pulleys can't be as bad surely? guess again
they look fine but the tensioner feels like it has been filled with gravel for ball bearings



Water pump however was fine haha



still had to be replaced though



the old water pump had a metal gasket and the new one is gasket material



Put it the coolant and turned the key and fired straight up
so proud of myself belt does seem to be tracking straight although rather close to the block but hasn't migrated any further so i guess it could be just in the correct position now instead of how it was before

It wasn't all that bad took me on my own about 6 hours to actually do the belts and pullies
At least an hour of that was trying to remember how the aux belt routed not only that i had to take my crank pullies off as they wouldn't slide in their slots which came up with numerous timing issues as i had to remove the pins and of course the cams shifted

I've bought new front tires and it's the first time i've seen asymmetrical tread on looks funny on the car
phoned up the company as i thought i had two directional tyres ha ha



These are now fitted and what a difference to the handling they make but the biggest difference is the fuel saving!!

This is what happened to my window cable after it snapped



safe to say thats pretty broken bought a new cable off ebay after all the bad reputation on the replacement cables this one has gone 2 months with no issues... touch wood

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Oh i do love nissens may as well get the next best from oem



and why the original rotted out



shame as its knackered the air con as well so i ripped that out while i was in there





oh note to anyone with the "updated" lower pipe you will have to order one of those as if its original there isn't a hop in hell its coming out of the rad even with a persuasive hammer



Thought i would check the thermostat as the tempurature was everywhere anyway glad i did!







appears to be original but the proper peugeot out the diesel does a much better job of it

Oh and the frame of the roof decided to shear off too... awesome
but managed to drill out all 30 odd rivets peal back the skin and have it repair for £50 bargin
restuck the skin with evo-stic and then came the task of the rivets... never again is all im going to say haha





That's all so far currently waiting for a spell of dry weather to change the complete exhaust back to standard from the block back inc all gaskets as it pops bangs and burbles. It makes me smile but annoys me as it sounds really broken.
And finally the brakes need a overhaul inc pads, discs, cables and hoses
Got all the parts just getting the weather and motivation time right haha