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4 counting the the REALLY fast one.

Marc' car and the Mexican 208 got noticed. Apparently they missed Rabin and his 505 http://youtu.be/lbHo0eNGPVQ

I couldn't quite understand what went on with their brakes but I gather they had some mechanical trouble. It seems that they have had them repaired and have now passed the Ural mountains that define the border between Europe and Asia. The last location I could identify was Chelyabinsk Russia, which is in south central Russia, just north of Kazakhstan.

Since I'm a 505 owner I don't have any real leads on those specific parts but, the usual suppliers include: Madhu Chohan - [email protected] - 281-531-5752 Brian Holm - [email protected] Rob Courter - [email protected] Miles - Western Hemispheres - [email protected] RockAuto - https://www.rockauto.com/ - 866-762-5288

We had a discussion about this here last year http://www.505turbo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2309-tranmission-oil/ as a result of that conversation and my discussion with Red Line, I'm using Red Line MT-90 75W90 GL-4 Gear Oil, and I'm happy with it. http://www.redlineoil.com/product.aspx?pid=46 The specs say it takes 1.8L but I find it takes more like 2.5qts.

Well the Silk Way Rally just passed through Kalmykia and there doesn't seem to be a Peugeot in the bunch ;-( http://www.silkwayrally.com/en/

If the ECU in the grey car works better than the one in my Blue car then either of you is welcome to the one out of the Blue car. There are a couple of adjustment pots on them and there are instructions in the electrical manual for starting settings when replacing them, but I've never been able to find any information on their actual function and how to refine those adjustments. I wouldn't be surprised if my problem with accelerating 5 MPH from the speed at which I set it could be corrected by an adjustment there, but it's never made it to the top of my list to fiddle with, and if the other ECU is a plug in fix I'll just go with that.

OK but If you are going to disable the CC, I would still disconnect it at the linkage rater than, or in addition to, the wiring. Since you have had that stick in the past, there is no point in running the risk that it might stick again even without the CC engaged. I don't use the CC much either but on a a long straight interstate it's sometimes nice to have. It wouldn't bother me if I didn't have it, but since I do, I try to keep it working. There are, of course, many things with much higher priority.

After sleeping on it, I wonder if you do have an issue with the ECU as well as the sticky linkage. If it just failed to disengage when shut off, that is the linkage, but the fact that it accelerated beyond the speed you were going when you set it, is not the linkage. In any case disconnecting the linkage will still keep you from trouble even with the wiring connected. The cruse control on my blue car has always (as far back as I can remember) accelerated 5mph above the speed I was traveling when I set it but then it acts normally. The CC on the grey car worked properly before it's engine was removed so I'm going to take the ECU from that, and put it in the blue car, and I expect that will cure my problem.

I think if I was going to disconnect something to prevent future mishaps, I'd disconnect the linkage at the injector pump, rather than the wires. It's easier to get at to disconnect and reconnect and since that's what got stuck the first time, that's what you want to keep from getting stuck in the future. I suspect if you get it so everything is freed up there, it shouldn't happen again, but of course you want to be careful when and where you try it next just in case. Glad you got it straightened out and I forgot to welcome you. Whatever guidance you or your mechanic friend need with your car, someone here probably knows the answer. I haven't got a fraction of the mechanical experience that some others here have, but I've been driving and maintaining Peugeots for about 40 years, so I've seen a lot of the things that can go wrong, If you want to fix the next 10 things that will go wrong with your car before they happen, there are 4 ground blocks at the four corners of the car, two in the engine compartment near the back side of the headlights and two in the side panels of the trunk. Get some contact cleaner and a toothbrush and pull each of those wires and clean them up. Start with the right front and then the right rear as those are the source of more trouble than the other two. Those 4 points are the root of most evil.

As I said I would have been surprised if that worked, but if you get to the point of believing that it is electronic rather than mechanical, try leaving the wires to the cruse control ECU disconnected rather than trying to force a reboot with a disconnect and reconnect. If the normal idle doesn't return then you know the ECU is not part of the problem, and it is unlikely that any of the wiring is at fault.

If it stays revved up even after shutting off and restarting the car I would bet that this is not an electrical fault. Just about everything else that goes wrong with a Peugeot is, but I think not this. I'm guessing that the linkage is mechanically stuck. The cruse control linkage is the lower of the linkages attached to the injector pump on the drivers side of the engine, If it's an automatic there are three linkages, top to bottom, kickdown throttle and cruse control. If it's a 5sp there are two (no kickdown). Try either disconnecting that linkage or manually pushing it back and forth and see if that frees it up. The ECU for the cruse control is inside the panel by the drivers left knee. When you remove that panel below the steering column, the controller is mounted to the panel. I think I recall that all the wires are on a single connector so if you unplug that you will disable the control. Check that it's not mechanically stuck first.

When they say Am I correct that they are trying to get brake hoses for the 204 shipped ahead to them in Saint Petersburg, or are they trying to locate a source for them in Saint Petersburg?

I think Peugeots are fairly common in Russia. At least it seems like every time I Google a Peugeot part, I come up with more Russian sites than anything else, so they may not be as bad off for finding parts or mechanics as we would be driving across the US or Canada. Once they get to Mongolia I think all bets are off. I think they will find people (few and far between) who will always be eager to help but I suspect the resources will be almost nonexistent at least until they get to Ulan Bator (by the way Ulan Bator means "Red Warrior"in Mongolian including the Kalmyk dialect). There is a Mongolian film that has a scene that I love. I think it's "The Story of the Weeping Camel". This nomad family has a truck that is not running, but they do not want to leave it behind as they continue their seasonal migration. They have a Shaman come and perform a spiritual ritual on the truck. I forget if they got it running or not. I'm not absolutely sure it was in "The Story of the Weeping Camel" but it's never the less a great film if you ever come across it. Anyway I often think of that scene when working on my Peugeot. I carry a Buddhist blessing attached to the sun visor to keep it from misfortune. Seems to have worked so far.

Well it looks like the "peugeonautes" have made it to Lithuania after going through Poland. André Your wife's story brings to mind many stories relating to my wife. I'll pick one that's sort of car related (at the end) for this venue. My wife was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany where many Kalmyk people spent time after WWII looking for a country that would take them. She came to the US as a stateless person. She was just a baby at the time. Her name was spelled phonetically by the German hospital personnel on her birth certificate. When she started school in the US it was spelled differently on her school records. Her social security card spells it another way and her driver's license matches that spelling. Her US citizenship certificate matches her German birth certificate which, of all the spellings, is the least close to the pronunciation of her name either in Kalmyk or English. A few years ago New Jersey, and I think most other states tightened up the documentation requirements when renewing your drivers license. When her license came up for renewal, she went in with her old license, her social security card, her citizenship certificate, and various other documents. When she got to the counter the person said "I'll have to take this to my supervisor. I think it will be OK but I can't approve this because the spelling has to match". The supervisor said that she would have to come up with enough documents with the same spelling or she could not renew her license. My wife got angry and started telling him how stupid that was and he told her to leave. She got angrier still. I dragged her out just as the police were about to cuff her. I went home and looked up the new regulations and clearly he was right, and there was no exceptions allowed. So I told her that the next day we would go to a different DMV office and be there as soon as they opened. We would hope that the person checking her documents hadn't had their coffee yet, and wouldn't notice. If that didn't work, we would go to the next DMV office until we had tried every one in the state. I figured sooner or later we would get a state worker who wasn't paying attention. The first person in the morning passed us to her supervisor who referred us to her supervisor. He told us we would have to get her name changed on enough of the documents so that the spelling matched. This was going to require getting her name legally changed by a judge and then applying for a new citizenship certificate, which would take at least a year, probobly 3 or more. I said to him we would certainly do what ever was required, but was she really not going to be allowed to drive for the next several years, while that was in progress. He thought about that for a minute and then said "OK I'm going to approve this. I just have to decide which spelling to approve." My wife just about jumped over the counter telling him that he had to approve the spelling she preferred. I kicked her in the shin and pointed out that a misspelled drivers license was better than no drivers license. I then told the DMV supervisor "look this is the spelling that we'll eventually get on the documents, as well as the one that has always been on her drivers license. If you are considering which spelling, why not avoid changing the name on her driver's license, if we will only wind up changing it back." He thought for a moment and said OK. Once she had her new license we got her a passport with that spelling and that gave her enough documents with the preferred spelling that we didn't have to get the others changed.

I studied French in High School but did VERY poorly at it. Now 40 something years later it might as well be Greek to me. The machine translations are usually good enough to tell what's being talked about, if not all the nuisances, but I found this one to be particularly rough. One of my uses for the machine translation is the aforementioned Kalmyk. That is my wife's first language. She spoke if exclusively as a child but never learned to read or write it. It was written in a unique Mongolian script until 75 or 100 years ago but is now written in a Cyrillic script. When I run the Cyrillic version through a translator and tell it it's Russian. It transliterates the characters into "English" looking Latin characters that give a fairly good phonetic spelling of the Kalmyk. Except for the alphabet, Kalmyk and Russian languages are not at all related. Of course it can not translate any of the words into English but it yields something that can be read by someone who speaks Kalmyk and reads English.

As some of you may recall my wife is Kalmyk which is of Mongolian decent and we are on the boards of several organizations related to her culture. I got an invitation to like a Facebook page at one of the accounts that I run for one of those foundations, which would have no reference to my Peugeot interest. Apparently there are some people driving a 204 and a 504 from Paris to Ulan Batur Mongolia to (I think) raise money for charity. It's all in French so I can't read it well and it doesn't seem to translate very well in Google Translate, so maybe someone here can tell me more about the details. I understand Kalmyk better than French. And we thought Mark and Rabin had quite a road trip. I suspect that some of the route these guys are taking would hardly qualify as a road. https://www.facebook.com/MongolieFever

Getting the old engine ready for an autopsy.

Here is the long awaited onboard video. http://bcove.me/fo1v1bdy

If I had gotten my car back from it's engine swap a couple of weeks sooner, the thought crossed my mind to make the trip. It's only 1,800miles each way. No problem in a 505 turbo diesel with those comfy seats. But I really needed to work the cobwebs out of it after it sat for 10 months, and there just wasn't enough time. If I left now, and took minimal sleep breaks, I could just about make it, but I'm not sure I'd have a wife to come home to if I sprung that on her right now. Besides I've only put about 30 miles on the car since since putting the engine in it and only our disease could possibly make me think about such a thing with so little run-time on the resurrected car. Maybe next year I can go see Sebastien try and break the record that I'm sure he's going to set this year.

While I was working on my turn signals I noticed that one of my headlight adjuster rods was missing. If it was knocked out while switching engines it may be in the trunk full of leftover parts I have only briefly looked through, but with a parts car sitting right there it was a 30 second fix. That is a luxury I've never had before.

Thanks! I found a better one in my electrical service manual. It's specific to 1885 and it shows both electrical and vacuum. I probably won't get a chance to mess with it till Monday, but I'm sure with this to go by, and two sets of everything, I can make it work. Of course it's (the car) perfectly functional in the mean time. http://www.tulaweb.net/images/Car/EGRdiagram.pdf

I have the factory service manual for XD2 XD2C XD2S but not the XD3T. I think the 1884 XD2C had the same EGR setup as the 85 XD3T, if so, I've got a nice color coded diagram. I also have the 1985 electrical service manual so hopefully between those I can figure it out. Of course the place that swapped the engines is willing to give it another try on both the Tach and the EGR but I probably know more about both than they do, so I'll take a crack at it first. I spent half the day today getting the parking lights and the turn signals working again. I also transferred the remaining fuel from the grey car to the blue one and changed the fuel filter. My neighbor asked me why I was working so hard when it's over 90 degrees since it's going to cool off the next few days so I told her I didn't want to drive around without turn signals and I wanted to drive around.