Peugeot 306 HDI 5 Door

[JTaylor2005]

Yesterday was a busy day... Well mostly for James (PiggyPower). Just have to say what a lovely place that is to go. The whole area is just quaint and just generally a nice English village. Anywayyyy..

I went down as I had bought the Gti-6 calipers and rear axle off his Racetractor. I also bought a full timing belt and water pump kit, and a new aux belt so arranged with Piggy to get all the work done at the same time.

The journey down was easy from where I live and I came across a great road called "Fish Hill" just a windy very very uphill road which I had complete access to as no one was on the road that early! Car flew up it and temp stayed lovely and stable so all good there! The A44 and A46 have some really nice stretches of road when they are clear.

Piggy was very welcoming and so was the weather and the two dogs that live down near his sight. Ziggy and urmmm the quiet one that didn't come near us much.

Work started with the timing belt to make sure that was done and out of the way. All went smooth. We had trouble getting the bolts undone on the cam shaft pulley though and piggy found that a previous owner who had changed the belt had left the timing out a degree or two on the pulley so he lined that back up nicely.

Next task was the brake calipers. I had these posted to me before hand so I could refurbish and clean them up. As can be seen in an above post in this thread.

Calipers all went in great and thanks for piggys general care of his cars all the bleed valves were free and easy to undo and the sliders were all free and well greased so all good there as well!

Rear axle was done last. This according to piggy went alright. The main issue was removing the old hand brake cables as far as I could understand (He was rather focused by now and I was trying to help with what bits I could haha)

All in all everything went well. All seems to have ran great on the 2 hour drive back home. Brakes bedded in better and temperature looking perfect on the dash as well.

Thanks for all the work and hospitality Piggy 

Issues raised - 

1) Need to replace lower pulley. This was done probably only 2 years ago but it seems I got a crap one! :/ 
2) Replace 90* elbow on the fuel tank filler pipe as this is damp with diesel.
3) Clean up and grommet a badly drilled random hole in the boot floor 
4) Tackle the slight rust on the underside of the car. Just needs wire brushing and a good coating with paint.


Oh also. This happened later in the evening. Mate managed to snap a pick!