Goce's 06 twin turbo diesel peugeot

[GoceKU]

Today i've been struggling all day i could not find a piston ring compressor, most of the hardware stores are closed because of the coronavirus and the tool market is also suspended. I've called couple of friends and stopped by few mechanics, none of them has one that will fit. So for today i only could clean the bores i bend a brash so i can reach the bottom and oil them, then i clean off the oil pump install new gasket, new oil seal and installed it and torqued it in place. Surpassing the old oil seal did not have a spring in the back, it is a different design.

 

[Lo-Fi]

It's easy enough to machine a taper ring for fitting pistons. Assuming you have a lathe, of course, but that doesn't seem like too much of a stretch on a machinists forum
Its looking good. Did you figure out how to refit that crank sensor ring?

 

[GoceKU]

Its looking good. Did you figure out how to refit that crank sensor ring?

I've made them in the past and i have couple of them but not for 81mm and i don't have any material in that size. Because of the coronavirus the steel places are closed, i'll borrow one for an hour just to slip the pistons in. For the sensor ring yeah i never took it off, took the crank with it assembled. And installed it just like that.

 

[Lo-Fi]

Oh brilliant! Glad there was a way around that.

 

[GoceKU]

Today i installed all the pistons, and torqued them to spec. I borrow a piston ring compressor, and installed new piston rings, i did checked and file them to spec also clean the pistons, soaking them in diesel helped i also scraped out the rings grooves i did not take pictures of that because my hands were very oily last thing i installed was the crank pulley.

 

[GoceKU]

The weather today was almost 20 degrees centigrade, so all the cars got washed i also pressure washed the radiator and oil pan from the 607, the pan come out clean, a bit worse on the outside. The radiator is a different story, i can tell the water isn't flowing in it but after leaving it to dry for few hours you can see all the oil that came out, i'll be doing a lot more cleaning, i price a new radiator and they are really expensive. In the meanwhile i continued assembling the bottom end of the engine, is install new gaskets, clean the upper oil pan oil pickup, dipstick tube and assemble them waiting for the lower pan to dry and get painted.

 

[brino]

after leaving it to dry for few hours you can see all the oil that came out, i'll be doing a lot more cleaning, i price a new radiator and they are really expensive

Is the oil from a secondary fluid cooler built into the radiator(power steering or transmission cooler), or was that oil in the coolant?
Forgive me if it's a stupid question, I know nothing about diesels.
-brino

 

[GoceKU]

Is the oil from a secondary fluid cooler built into the radiator(power steering or transmission cooler), or was that oil in the coolant?
Forgive me if it's a stupid question, I know nothing about diesels.

Bruno, is not a stupid question. The oil is all around the cooling system, it is thick black engine oil, the radiator has no other cooler inside it, this vehicle has only one big engine radiator, no transmission, power steering cooler. The oil is probably from a previous blown head gasket or a bad oil cooler. Now i'm cleaning the oil cooler and investigation from where is all the oil in the engine valley.

 

[Lo-Fi]

Is the oil from a secondary fluid cooler built into the radiator(power steering or transmission cooler), or was that oil in the coolant?
Forgive me if it's a stupid question, I know nothing about diesels.
-brino

Actually a common failure mode for water>oil coolers. A mate of mine had a VW with an oil cooler built onto the oil filter block. Somehow it broke internally and pumped his cooling system full of oil! Looks like it's a classic head gasket failure that's let oil get where it shouldn't in this case, though.

 

[Downunder Bob]

Why is it that european cars are so hard to work on and french definitely the worst.