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I've only changed them once. I removed the inner seal, and packed them with wheel bearing grease. I don't see how contaminants would get in the back but apparently from the frequency that some people report them failing it must do so somehow.

The factory originals are only sealed in the front. They are open inside, so while you might want to use one sealed on both sides, it's not the wrong bearing just because it's sealed on both sides.

Today I moved the 505 out of it's storage shelter and brought the Subaru in to do it's back brakes and an oil change in preparation for driving to NH tomorrow to visit my Mother. http://www.tulaweb.net/images/Car/12262014252.jpg My wife got me a new stereo for the Subaru for Christmas. She really doesn't like the Peugeot except she likes that I have XM satellite radio in it, so she wants that in the Subaru as well. If I had gotten the brakes and oil done in time I was going to put that in but that didn't happen.

I used this one in mine http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045DWEFW/

I don't think there is any reason to keep it other than emissions, on the other hand no reason not to keep it other than if it is not working properly, or maybe just to clean up some space. In other words when it is working properly I don't think it hurts performance or anything as it only recirculated the exhaust at or near idle.

I've been driving the Subaru for about a month now. I'm preparing a winter storage and workspace for the 505. I'm laying concrete pavers for a floor and will put up a portable garage that I've had but never used. This is about 20 miles from here, where I have been keeping the parts car. I went to get the first load of pavers with the utility trailer behind the 505. I hadn't driven it in about 2 weeks and as soon as I started moving, it started belching black smoke and generally bucking and kicking. It seemed to idle fine but ran like hell at any higher RPMs whether or not it was under load. I pondered the symptoms for a while and thought perhaps it might be the EGR valve not closing when it's supposed to. I clamped off the vacuum hose to it and it went back to running fine. So I have to see what's going on, but in the mean time I'm hauling the pavers 1,000 lbs at a time. One more load to go.

Welcome to the forum. You might also get some insight into what if anything unusual is going on by sending in an oil sample for analysis. I use BlackStone http://www.blackstone-labs.com, so they at least have results from one other Peugeot XD engine to use for comparison.

The first time I ever had the occasion to change an engine, was many many years ago. An old girlfiend was taking friends to the airport in my Toyota. A few miles before she got their the oil pressure light came on. She figured that she would get them to their plane and then look into it. She got another hundred yards before hearing a bang. When I got the engine out I couldn't quite get my head in through the hole in the block to look around, but almost.

On my cars at least, and I think yours as well, the original lug nuts were two part swivel things and if over tightened they frequently broke. The replacements were one piece and a little longer. The replacements weigh more than the originals. If some of your lug nuts have been replaced, make sure each wheel has all one kind or the other. If the lug nuts are unbalanced, a tire shop can get the wheel perfect off the car and it can still be unbalanced when you put it back on.

One thing I have observed is that these cars are very susceptible to wheels being out of balance. A wheel weight falling off or mixing different lug nuts on one wheel will cause a noticeable wobble/vibration at middle speeds. A warped rotor would change in frequency at different speeds but wouldn't wait till 60kmph to start. Do you have a vacuum gauge? Now that you have gone over all the hoses, you are probably left with the pump itself, the accumulator tank, or the break booster as the fault. Putting a gauge in the system and them clamping off each of those three items one at a time, may identify the fault(s)

Welcome to the Forum. The front brakes are either Bendix or ATE. I've never had the Bendix ones, so I'm not sure how to tell you to identify them vs the ATE. It looks like those pads on Ebay are the Bendix type. Someone with more experience at both types may be able to tell you better but I would say if the hardware looks like this, it's ATE If it looks like this, it's Bendix. I generally get my brake pads from Rock Auto. They have a coupon code in the Vendor section of these forum.

Here is my updated Family history, as best I recall. Most, if not all, of this has been documented earlier in this thread or elsewhere on the forum, but this is an attempt to put the whole story in one place. In 1974 my parents bought a 504 Diesel (azure blue). That was my Father's daily driver (I would have been 21 years old at the time). I remember lobbying for that car vs the Volkswagen Diesel (fox?) they were also considering. In 1976 my father fell asleep at the wheel (damn those comfy Peugeot seats) and totaled his car. The insurance company didn't have any resale history on the car yet and was having a hard time setting a value. They called him up and said they found a Peugeot Diesel, of the same year and similar mileage, for sale a few hundred miles away, and if he wanted it, he could pay the deductible, and they would pay the rest. So he then had a maroon one instead of the blue one. In 1978 they bought another 504 Diesel, which became my Mother's daily driver. It was a metallic gold color. In 1982 they traded in the 74 maroon 504 and got a White 505 Diesel. It was a base model, 4sp no sunroof, manual widows and mirrors. In 1985 they traded in the 78 504 on the Glacier Blue 505S TD which became my mother's DD. In 1990 they bought a 405 on a European delivery program, where they bought it through a local dealer in NJ but picked it up in France. They spent 3 or 4 weeks traveling around Europe with it and then returned it to a port city for shipment to the US. This was a US model with a European exhaust system, headlights and a few other European parts. Peugeot then replaced the non US parts and put it on a boat to the US. My parents picked it up at the Dealer they originally bought it from. My recollection was that there was little or no extra charge for this arrangement. They were not offered much trade in value for the white 505 so I bought it from them for whatever the dealer was offering them, and had it till 1995 when the transmission went, and I junked it. My wife was driving it for a while, but she really hated driving a stick shift, so we bought a new Honda for her, which I have to say gave us 250,000 absolutely trouble free miles. In 1993 when Peugeot announced they were going home, my Mother got a new 405 that the dealer considered to be kind of an orphan. I forget what she paid, but I think it was less than half the sticker price. That was the first automatic transmission I remember in any car in our family, but there was no choice in the matter. It was whatever the dealer had in stock. I bought her 505 at that time, and it is my car today. In 1995 my parents retired to New Hampshire with their two 405s and were told there were no Peugeot dealers within 100 miles. I don't think that was true, but they had some difficulty finding any place with Peugeot experience to service them. In 2000 my father traded in his 1990 405 and bought a new Subaru Legacy. About 10 years ago my mother was in her 405 on her way to play tennis, when she was T-boned by a teenager in a pickup truck. The car was totaled and she nearly was too. While she was in the hospital, I went with my father to get their belongings from the car, and approaching the car was really shocking. It didn't look like anyone could have survived it. But on closer inspection, the passenger compartment was completely intact. Every crush zone that was meant to crush was completely crushed but the part that wasn't supposed to crush, protected the occupant perfectly. So between that and the 1974 504 that my father totaled, I've had both my parents survive potentially fatal accidents, protected by their Peugeots. By that time my father had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was near the end of his driving days, so they decided not to replace the Peugeot and just keep the Subaru. In December of 2011 my father passed away, just shy of his 90th birthday. In late summer 2012, I drove into a flooded street, sucked water into the air intake and hydrolocked the engine on the 1985 505. Removal of the injectors did not release the lock. I still don’t know exactly what bent, but even with the head off, the crank will not budge. Reading my distress call, Joe (JunktionFET) offered to sell me his 505STI, for use as an engine donor. Once I determined that my engine was not going to be reasonably repairable, I took him up on his offer, and in mid September, I took the bus down to Raleigh NC and drove his car back to New Jersey. Interestingly his car was originally from NJ, about 50 miles from me. The original plan was to immediately swap engines but, once I got back, I decided to drive Joe’s car for the winter and let its already rusty body take the road salt. About a month after I got the car from Joe, we found ourselves ground zero for Hurricane Sandy. I pushed the engineless one to the highest ground I could get it to and we left the Honda in a parking lot on high ground where several thousand other vehicles took refuge. My wife, our cat and I evacuated, in the 505 I got from Joe. The water came just about up to the bottom of the doors on the 505 left behind but, other than damp carpeting, it made out OK. In the summer of 2013, I had the engines swapped by a local shop that seems to do mostly heavy equipment, and the car that my mother originally bought in 1985 went back to being my daily driver. Unfortunately it is difficult to get to the larger projects on a car when it is your daily transportation, and while the car is in good mechanical condition, it badly needs paint. I have a crack in the windshield. I will soon need to reseal the injector pump, and there are of course no end of little projects I keep meaning to get to. Last week my mother, who is approaching 91 years old, called and told me she has decided to give up driving, and would like to give me her car, if I would like it. Her 2000 Subaru has a little under 34,000 miles on it. While it has spent it’s life so far in New Hampshire, which is not known for mild winters, it has always been garaged and while I have not inspected it all that carefully yet, I don’t recall noticing any signs of rust. So just in time for it’s 30th birthday, I plan to retire the Peugeot from daily driver duty, and concentrate on restoring it to it’s former glory.

The mother of my Peugeots

My mother from whom I bought my 505 20ish years ago has decided to give up driving as she approaches the age of 91. She called me yesterday and told me she'd like to give me her Subaru if I want it. I think I'm going to retire the 505 from DD duty. It will make it a lot easier to do projects that I can't complete in a day or two. Maybe now I will be able to paint it, get the injector pump resealed, deal with the upholstery and similar projects. I spent much of today working on classic car insurance. NJ is one of, if not the most expensive states for insurance and after insuring the Subaru, regular insurance on the Peugeot would be another $1,000 just for liability coverage so I could keep it registered. If I had any collision or comprehensive coverage, it could be twice that. So once I have another daily driver I hope I will be able to get classic car insurance on the Peugeot that will be much less expensive. I would probably have an easier time getting the classic insurance if I got historic plates. If it was a 79 or earlier or if it was mostly restored the classic car insurance specialists would be more interested. Anyway I have some applications in, some rejections and some still pending. We'll see how it goes.

I still have the bearing sitting next to the gear shift where I see it every day but I haven't done it yet. I did fabricate a tool that I hope will adapt my gear puller to pull the bearing, when I do get to it. That's sitting in the back seat.

Today I got a used driver's side (electric) mirror and installed it. It works!

I still have the originals. I can't say from personal experience how they compare to aftermarket inserts, but I have certainly been told that the originals are far superior to anything else currently available.

I would be interested in that mirror.

Are you looking for the whole car or just the engine? I don't have either, but I figure there might be some misunderstanding if we don't clear that up. Oh and welcome to the forum.

My parts car has a 3 HP-22 transmission in it which I would be willing to part with. It is a 1985 that had a XD3T I'm not sure if that's compatible.

I think I've decided the clutch master cylinder is OK. I've got lots of things waiting for attention. I want to replace the bearings in the idler pulleys because I hear a little chirping sound. I got this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008P50TVC/. Today I took one of the pulleys out to see if the bearing I got was right and how to get the old one out and the new one in. So hopefully I'll have time Friday to build an adapter for my gear puller to see if I can extract the old bearing. I have to recharge the AC, part of which came from the engine donor car and part from the this car. I have a new dryer. Everything else should be OK. Last December I replaced the driver's side rear suspension arm with one that was in better but not great condition. I have both left and right ones that I want to clean up, paint and put in when I can. One of the bushings on the rear sway bar link was kind of disintegrated when I put that back together so I've got new links and bushings for that. I've got to do some rust repair in the left side inner wheel wells I hope to paint the car sometime this summer.

Well several years ago I drove into a flooded street during a torrential rain storm. I sucked water into the engine air intake and hydrolocked the engine. The water didn't get up to the bottom of the doors and it only sat in the water a relatively short time but the engine was toast. I bought Joe's car which had practically no miles on it but the body was what we have affectionately been calling "crusty". I drove it back from North Carolina and originally intended to swap engines more or less immediately, but I decided to drive Crusty for the winter and switch engines in the spring. Meanwhile I found myself directly in the path of Hurricane Sandy. I pushed the car with no engine to the highest ground I could, and my wife and I took the cat and the family photos and evacuated in Crusty. The high water mark on the car left behind was just about even with the bottom of the doors. The carpet was wet, but I didn't find any other issue. In the spring I swapped engines and that car is now back to being my daily driver.

The new switch now has new connectors

But I think some brands are taller still. I think I've had a Mann Filter and a Beck/Arnley that were taller than the PURFLUX or the WIX

Starting from a clean system, with a new dryer and everything else flushed out, how much R12 and how much oil does the AC take?