My 407 1.6HDI

[philkerman]

After a wash and wax



Old, very much dead engine ready to be stripped


Nice new engine ready to go back in!

[trem1]

firstly hello and welcome
secondly there's obviously a story behind this,care to share it with us???

[philkerman]

Sure thing,

It used to be a Peugeot Lease car before it was in my hands they had a complete engine change under warranty in 2009 at 79,181 miles after it broke down in St Albans, and this is where it all goes very wrong for me a year or so later...

It kept getting through injector seals like a bastard, even after being painstakingly done, making sure every last little spec of crap was pulled out of the sleeves and seats.

The effects of getting through all those seals broke the head because one of the sleeves managed to physically come out of the head, wrapped around the injector. By the time I factored up all the costs in either losing the injector and gaining the sleeve to put back in, or getting a new sleeve manufactured to put back in the old head by sweating it back in was just too great; especially considering a complete new engine from a 307 with 21k on the clock was £950, complete.

Now, when we put the new engine in, we had by this time bought the Diagnostics. When it came to coding the injectors we just on the off chance compared the values to the old injectors... guess what? Not a match, the stupid muppets!

I can only suspect that this caused my injector seal problems, but even still in that condition the thing pulled a nice 62mpg on the motorway @ 74mph on cruise all day long, a figure I cannot get with the new engine which is a real shame.

Incidentally, on the way to my dads (254mile trip) the FAP spat it's dummy out, and the end of that trip the engine also spat it's dummy out, so it's quite possible that even though I've blasted the FAP out and topped the fluid up, reset the meter and all that jazz, it could well be causing me grief still?

Gilletto is on it's way, so it's going bye bye, I'm going to steal a sealed CAT system from a fap-less 1.6HDI C5 II.

So that's the story behind my car, in a nutshell.

Phil