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 →

NS wishbone off and stripped down in a fraction of the time that yesterday's took, which just goes to show that things are a lot easier to do a second time around. Replaced both track rod ends too, which was a fairly simple job... Update: Just back from the local motor engineers, they've pressed the... Continue Reading →

Finally managed to get to the point where it was time to get the car up on the axle stands to tackle the next stage of the suspension overhaul. OS Wishbone came off without any problems and I spent the afternoon hacking, drilling and sawing away at the old bushes until I had one wishbone... Continue Reading →

Popped into the local Citroen garage in between meetings today to enquire how much they'd charge to press some new ball joints into the wishbones if I dropped them in. The guy on the service desk seemed quite shocked that they could actually be taken off the car by someone other than one of the... Continue Reading →

The car crashing through bumps has been driving me mad, but a drive with a friend at the weekend was quite embarassing, so I've decided that it's time to get cracking on the suspension. Fitted the uprated 22mm ARB bushes Put on a new pair of droplinks too*. The test drive afterwards has revealed that... Continue Reading →