Had a little bit of time to fit some blanks in the dashboard. Ended up just drilling and tapping the dashboard plastics to attach them and using cardboard templates to get the positions right. I decided that it was going to irritate me having different weave patterns on these pieces and the door cards, so... Continue Reading →

Massive tidy up in the garage at the weekend and now a bit better prepared for doing some more work on the car. The Rallye has just be taxed again and I now have just over six months to get to grips with the bodywork and welding as I'm fairly sure it's not going to... Continue Reading →

To fit the Ford fitment OZ alloys to the Peugeot 106 you need reducer wheel spigots. Failing to do this means the wheel wont sit evenly (read centrally) on the hub and will induce bearing destroying vibration at speed. The centre bore on 106s is 65.1mm diameter. After a bit of research via Google I... Continue Reading →

Ordered a replacement steering wheel and boss from Demon Tweeks. Nice Sparco 345 Suede wheel and Momo adaptor boss. The dish means it's harder to reach the indicator stalks. It's about 5cm smaller in diameter than the standard Peugeot item.

I mentioned recently that I was intent on doing a few things to the car. The first of these was change the washer jets to some mist type washers. This was a necessity as the standard washers were only half working i.e. one out of the two jets on both sides of the car. The... Continue Reading →

New wheels have arrived. I've wanted a set of these for a long time as they're some of the lightest alloy wheels that you can get, saving 3kg per corner over the Chronos that are on the car at the moment - even with the bigger 50 profile Toyo R888s. Not that they'll fit on... Continue Reading →

No progress to report, but this is because it's been sub zero outside since the middle of December and even wearing thermals, old snowboarding kit and lying on a futon mattress it's too cold to be working under the car, so things haven't progressed as planned on the bodywork. I still have several little jobs... Continue Reading →

ATS sorted out the tracking today. Unsurprisingly it was out, but importantly it isn't anymore. I don't anticipate much significant progress between now and January, but I have earmarked January and February to remove the rear beam/subframe assembly, polybush it and treat the underside rear of the car to some rust tackling TLC.

The finale! Finally found time to get back in the garage and finish this off. Equipped myself with a Dremel from B&Q and ground down the inner bushes from the wishbone mounts so they'd actually fit in the chassis on both sides. Quite a lot of material needed removing, but a grinding stone attachment made... Continue Reading →

Went off to Robins and Day, the only Peugeot Dealer within the M60 around Manchester at lunchtime. They were the nearest place likely to have in the suspension wishbone I needed. They didn't have it in, but did find another Peugeot dealer with one in stock which could have been mine for the wonderful price... Continue Reading →

Not much to report. Car is still on axle stands waiting for the suspension be put back together. I've cleaned up and zinc treated the wishbone mounting points which were showing some signs of surface rust. I also use inspected some of the bodywork under the underseal which has revealed what I was expecting -... Continue Reading →