Goce's 06 twin turbo diesel peugeot

[Downunder Bob]

I have never been a fan of Peugeot, they do not do well in Australia, long distances and high temperatures. Most european cars air con is not up to it. having said that it looks like you have restored a very nice car.

 

[GoceKU]

Bob, old peugeot diesels are popular in some parts of australia, they don't have much power but simply don't brake down and are very fuel efficient. Before this coronavirus hit i was driving 60-100 000km a year in a country that is 250 km across and i'm very satisfied with all my peugeot's, many of my friends who drive less them me, change cars on a yearly basis, VW and their aluminium suspensions are a laughing joke we'll see how this new generation of an old car holds up.

 

[GoceKU]

Today i had some time to spare, so i used some reconditioning supplies to clean and repair the seats on this car, they are genuine leather, but someone has something on his belt and scratched the leather also baking in the sun the leather was very dry, i spent all the time focusing only on the passenger seat because i had better access, the wax with color that i used was a perfect match and the scratches disappeared, not the biggest job but made a big difference.

 

[Downunder Bob]

Bob, old peugeot diesels are popular in some parts of australia, they don't have much power but simply don't brake down and are very fuel efficient. Before this coronavirus hit i was driving 60-100 000km a year in a country that is 250 km across and i'm very satisfied with all my peugeot's, many of my friends who drive less them me, change cars on a yearly basis, VW and their aluminium suspensions are a laughing joke we'll see how this new generation of an old car holds up.

Yes I'm well aware of their popularity in some circles. An old mate of mine recently who passed away. He was a peugeot tragic. I think that is where I got my poor opinion of them. His was always suffering from one ailment or another.

I got the impression that they require the frequent attention of a specialist peugeot mechanic, and as labor, especially specialist labour here in Australia is very expensive. his car probably never got the attention it needed. it stumbled from one patch up, to the next."

"Still each to their own.

We used to build many cars here. Ford and GM had a couple of large factories here also Chrysler and Mitsubishi, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Volvo, all had production facilities here, but gradually they closed down. wages became too high and union trouble making all caused them to close.

 

[stuarth44]

First of all this is not a classic or a truck but is interesting and broken so i thought i'll share it. This vehicle is not sold in the US and is rare even in europe. I found this Peugeot advertised on a local site cheap. The advert was written very badly and only mention a slight coolant leak. I grabbed my car keys and went 130 km away in another city to have a look. On the body and mechanical except tires it was in good shape. The engine is a different story, it producing pressure in the cooling system and there is engine oil in the coolant. After negotiation the price to where it can work for me and cuting his asking price in half we shook hands. i left him a deposit, and went home, next day i went back 130km and transferred the title on my name, return the license plates, get temporary plates, went thru the inspection station and begin my 130 km drive home, the first 50km was fine but then temp gauge started to drop and engine oil temp went up. I stopped and found a DIY radiator hose blow off and dump all its coolant. I attach the hose filled the system with water and continued, next 30 km was holding but then the temp gauge dropped again at zero no indication that is overheating, i stopped and it has spilled out all the water i put in the coolant system combined with engine oil and it won't accept any more it was boiling and spitting. I had stopped at a road works so all the road workers come by and stood around waiting for it to cool down. Then i filled it and made it further 20 km and same again, did the same then took 10km to do it again and last few km i stopped 2 more times but got it home, the first picture is dirty how i got it that night next two are form the next day me washing it. Now i'll be tearing the 2,7 HDI twin turbo engine part by part to fix it. I wanted to share my experience with it and all my struggles.
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always had a soft spot for Fr cars, ceptin' do prefer rear wheel drive, must read the thread later, we have a bmw e39, 1897, 2.8 i, a prime candidate for turbo

 

[GoceKU]

Wow, i think, you got your numbers mix there i've never heard of a E39 from the 1800 hundreds . That has the M52 engine, i've never been too much in bmw, i know those engines are very capable, a also had to replace my windscreen once because one blow a conrod in front of me, it might be an M50 it was a E36 trying its hardest to stay a head .

 

[GoceKU]

Last few days i've been doing my research on how the variable stroke aircon compressor works in this car, i did lots of diagnoses on the wiring and finally after all of trouble shooting is started working, must have been a loose connection, you can see the difference 25 outside 4 degrees in the vents i also had time to restore the leather on the drivers seat and apply what i had left on the back seat, the coronavirus is making hard to buy staff. I have couple more issues to work out and i plan to register it, having 3 cars registered this year is going to be a huge financial weight.

 

[GBRnR]

Hi Goce,

What an amazing job you've done ! In only a couple of months !

I'm working on my Citroën C6 which has the same engine. After 4 months I've just opened the engine by removing the 2 heads.
I still have 4 glow plugs to take out

I'm documenting everything in videos:

François. (it just means "the French")

 

[GoceKU]

François

Welcome to the forum, your videos are very well done with all the sounds, and editing no suprase is taking that long, the best advice i can give you to save your self some time with the glow plugs is to find a thin solvent that dissolves carbon build up and forced it in the bottom and top of the glow plugs, someone before you did not torque them to spec, and they did not seal on the taper so combustion gasses went past and stopped at the threads and build up the gap. I had to drill 3 glow plugs on my engine, very hard work, don't hit them from the bottom too much they get bent and is harder to get them out. I don't understand french so i could not understand why are you taking apart you engine ?

 

[GBRnR]

I'm taking apart the engine because the head gasket seems to be blown
Thanks for your tips, in the next video I'll try getting the glow plugs out...