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Peugeot 404 - Restoration Project - April 8th 2001

Car is coming down from its perch and I'm preparing this page and reworking previous pages as it 'pees' out some of the remaining water (and oil) I've posted an ad in town hoping to find a dry and larger space to work, no callers yet. Finally, the car is down. Lots of new rust and signs of water's passage is everywhere.
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pinintrace (640x480, 47kb)
Pininfarina has seen better days ; the water was well above the insignia (lighter line)

rearwaterlevel (640x480, 48kb)
Almost above the tire

Above are some pictures showing the water level marks.

peeingwater1 (567x425, 71kb)

leaking water as the car was tilted on the way down

cibiewater (640x480, 77kb)

 On the left, the water level can be seen in the CIBIE headlight ; on the right, the seats were mostly spared as I brought them in 

 

seatsinlivingroom (640x480, 56kb)

A little animal pause : Had company today as I worked, a duck decided to perch
in the nearby tree and to take a break I bought two fish to replace those that went away with the flooding

duckintree (640x480, 121kb)

fish2 (640x480, 99kb)

Back to the car : cleaned-up most of the inside and took apart the housing for
the Nardi "stick on the floor" and the front seat belt clamp. The cover for the Nardi really suffered. 

seatstay (480x640, 111kb) nardicover (640x480, 61kb) nardifiber1 (640x480, 76kb)
nardifiber (640x480, 97kb) nardifiber2 (640x480, 90kb) nardimechanism (640x480, 80kb)

The trunk also had water in it !

trunk (640x480, 80kb)
 Everything is soaked and the rubber mats must be removed

gaztank (640x480, 60kb)
Once cleaned up everything is ok as there is very little rust here.

Started with the motor compartment by removing the battery and cleaning
the base. The pump needs a new hose and the injectors look really rusty!

batterybase (640x480, 97kb) pump1 (640x480, 85kb) injectors (640x480, 69kb)

 

 

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