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Peugeot 404 - Restoration Project - April 22nd 2001

 12 days without doing anything on the car ... got back to the the job today with the unmounting of the muffler and the rear bumper. With lots of discoveries. Caroline gave a hand.

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Start off with a review of the bumper mountings and found a missing nut! Dismounted the rear bumper from the rear supports and the tip supports inside the trunk  

bumpermissingnut (640x480, 55kb)

bumperfloor (640x480, 62kb)
Rust is evident

bumpersupportleft (640x480, 58kb)

bumpersupportright (640x480, 54kb)
 

rustbasebumper (640x480, 58kb)

rustbasebumperdetail (640x480, 50kb)
The support holes; on the right side evident cracking in the paint and rust (pre-dip in the Seine) bumperhole (640x480, 56kb) rightrearwithcrack (640x480, 57kb)

As can be seen, the bumper is severely cracked on the right side. 

 crackedbumper2 (640x480, 59kb) crackedbumper1 (640x480, 57kb)

This is will require some welding ...and muffler dismounting (lost some pictures)...

crackedbumper3 (640x480, 59kb) mufflersupport1 (640x480, 56kb)

 with the help of Caroline.

caromuffler (640x480, 61kb) caroundercar (640x480, 57kb)

 

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