Red Rallye resto

[Ben_w]

Anyone like soup?

Cooked up a proper batch of Rallye hub soup overnight….!

So the hub I'd started on cleaning in the electrolysis tank yesterday got left cooking in the tank all night….. didn't get a picture but it wasn't pretty!

Anyway, dragged out the hub, gave it a good old scrub in the sink (which pleased the wife no end) and it ended up looking like this…



Quite pleased with that. I then attacked some of the bits in the corners with a wire brush in a drill and it looks even better but I've not got a pic of that.

Here's the other non cleaned up with the cleaned one. You get an idea of how good this method is.



Managed to break both the abs sensor covers earlier on when I was cleaning that crap out from the front arches. They are an odd kind of material. Not sure if it's plastic or a ceramic but it's brittle and breaks easily. Not really an issue though, should be easy enough to replace as they are still available it seems.



Then had a look at the cable brackets. These bolt to the hub's and hold the abs sensor cables. I think they hold the flexi hoses for the brakes too. Started out like this..



2-3 hours each in the tank and they look a bit more reasonable.



Still trying to figure standard finish but a replacement, genuine Peugeot part looks like this…



The originals are pitted and need some more work before I can even think about zinc plating. New, genuine ones are £8 each. Think that's probably decision made….

Back to the quest for originality. Can't be sure the hub's didn't come as a bare metal finish. Parts of them looked like they had been painted black and I noticed this once the one had been cleaned up.



Certainly evidence of paint. The one thing I don't know is when that was applied. So something else to try and find out. Other hub is cooking overnight. Clean that up tomorrow and then think about taking the subframe off.