Suspension sinks on Sundays! C5 X7 that works hard + 206 GTi HDi (and 406 Coupe and 306 HDi). - MattBLancs

[MattBLancs]

This morning

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And key image of the day

Break for late lunch now

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Ah my stretch boot and fitting kit has arrived, is this how it's done?

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Dunce's hat?

[MattBLancs]

Angle grinder plus old flywheel bolts = chase out the thread locking compound.

Crankshaft oil seal installation tool from the Morrisons Greek Style Yogurt range

90x110x7 "from stock" due to hoarding tendencies...

Knackered, more tomorrow

[CitroJim]

Great work Matt! Loving your oil seal installation tool

That's a fine cone you've grown on your head!

[ozfrog]

I’ve always been told that it’s a ‘90’, so that’s what I’m sticking with until I know differently.

Easy to tell - 90 only has 1 air pipe over the engine, 110 has 2 (due to the intercooler).

Does the VIN also indicate what engine is in the car?

If it does, as I believe it should, then what I've been told about the engine in my 406s so far is incorrect. The VIN for both of them have 'RHZ' in the VIN - 109 HP. Okay, everyone calls it the 110 HP engine.

Who would have thought!

[ozfrog]

… proper clip without the proper pliers - a pair of nail pulling pincers can stand in fairly well.

I'd thought of using jubilee clips -

"dedicated" CV Clip Pliers,

You people use strange names for things!

I found out what "Jubilee" clips are - worm drive hose clamps

A now retired stripper from Clacton, they just call the ole fella crusty now , due to his age

Clacton? Clacton-on-Sea? Constituency? What on earth?

And a retired stripper?

[MattBLancs]

Does the VIN also indicate what engine is in the car?

Yes, certainly confirms what was originally in there

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306 engine bay with little tweak from standard. (Not mine but appreciate it from across the internet)

I'd thought of using jubilee clips -

You people use strange names for things!

I found out what "Jubilee" clips are - worm drive hose clamps

"Commander Lumley Robinson" (so says Wikipedia below) apparently invented and named them Jubilee clips but it's since become generic. Also Biro, Hoover, Velcro and lots of others that'll come to mind when I'm a bit more awake

Amazingly actual genuine jubilees are still sold. Quite like when the original is still knocking about more than 100 years after first devised

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_Clip

[RichardW]

The VIN for both of them have 'RHZ' in the VIN - 109 HP. Okay, everyone calls it the 110 HP engine.

Who would have thought!

Handy...! On your foray into UK / European terms, it's 109 BHP (Brake Horse Power) but the figures are usually quoted in PS which is a German measure ( PS stands for Pferdestärke, a German word that translates to "horse strength". It is the metric measurement for engine power, commonly used by European car and motorcycle makers. One PS equals roughly 0.9863 of a standard mechanical horsepower (bhp/hp), meaning the values are almost the same.) But they are also often quoted in brackets in kW....

Thread hijack, Matt, Sorry!

[MattBLancs]

No problem at all, a good distraction from the rain that's stopped me before I have even started today!

(Sorry for wonky picture in the larger view)

[Huskyxantia]

… proper clip without the proper pliers - a pair of nail pulling pincers can stand in fairly well.

I'd thought of using jubilee clips -

"dedicated" CV Clip Pliers,

You people use strange names for things!

I found out what "Jubilee" clips are - worm drive hose clamps

A now retired stripper from Clacton, they just call the ole fella crusty now , due to his age

Clacton? Clacton-on-Sea? Constituency? What on earth?

And a retired stripper?

Crusty nuts ..(stage name)... you need to move to the uk your have a blast ... in second thoughts , your miss that weather of yours ..


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Brilliant set of photos and info here Matt this may well could be of use to someone one day with the same job . Top work.

[MattBLancs]

Weather seriously getting on my nerves at present flip a coin every 15 minutes and flick between:
Proper cloud burst downpour
And
Hot sunshine baking down.

New flywheel on.

A deep socket a good fit in the flywheel spigot hole is a MASSIVE help as trying to precisely align the flywheel (8 bolt holes but also a dowel pin too. Which is a stopped hole in the flywheel and hence not visible from the front!) quickly becomes an arm aching patience test. Thusly:

ENDING NOTE.
Brilliant set of photos and info here Matt this may well could be of use to someone one day with the same job . Top work.

Thank you!

Nipped inside to grab the (previous generation) torque settings for flywheel bolts. T50 torx, from the Haynes:
Stage 1 is 25 Nm
Stage 2 is fully loosen
Stage 3 is 8 Nm (can't see the overcoming the loctite personally! Will need to break out the 1/4" inch drive torque wrench as my 3/8" drive just not go below 20 Nm!)
Stage 4 is 30 Nm
Stage 5 angle tighten 90 degrees
Stage 6 is drop torque wrench and try to reconnect arms back into sockets

[ozfrog]

I like Stage 6 the best.

[MattBLancs]

I like Stage 6 the best.

I'm looking forward to that bit!

8Nm is 71 inch-pounds (as that's what my little cheap 1/4" drive torque wrench uses)

All together: Ahhhhh it's nowt but a baby!

[MattBLancs]

It's in blinding mode, couldn't see the screen but if blue sky so getting cracking.

Eating going to have to wait a bit