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I've been working hard on the little niva last few days, i'm trying to get the more difficult things done so i can focus on the fun stuff. I needed to measure and decade in which position i'll install the engine, peugeot originally set the engine at 30 degrees, but there oil pan is at 20 degrees, i have a spare oil pump which i also measured and got 18 degrees, then i remembered that they installed those engines on 15 degrees on smaller, so the angle of the oil pan is a compromas. That said i set my engine at 25 degrees, this way i'll have some more room at the back for a turbocharger. After getting those measurements, i set the gearbox straight, measures 25 degrees and marked the gearbox side, then i cut the outside and inside to size, i'll need to add a bit more at one off the bolt holes to have more stability but it fits pretty nicely. Now comes the hard part, cutting it from some 15-20mm steel with hand tools, i lay couple of 16mm thick pieces i had on top and i've seen it's much easier if i make it from couple of pieces that i can weld together, so that is the plan.

Pull a spark plug or insert a spark plug in a HT lead, and rest it against a valve cover bolt to ground it, crank it and look does it have spark, also look at the check engine light on the dash is it lighting up dose it flash, also check the ecu box, under hood upper right corner i've had it fill up with water and my mi16 did not start.

Yeah that's good old K-Jetronic, on those i would trace the fuel line that is coming from the fuel pump, and test pressure where it enters. looks very easy to take off the intake hose, only one hose clamp and you have access to the throttle body. Check first if it will run on brake cleaner, then we will troubleshoot further.

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If memory serves right it has normal bosch style fuel injectors and fuel rail, here is a picture , you can see it they are green. https://www.canam-peugeot.com/forum/index.php?/gallery/image/340-peugeot505turbo6/

Brass T piece, and a pressure gauge, couple pieces of hose, couple of clamps, remove the hose of the fuel rail, T in a pressure gauge, activate the pump and check the pressure.

Spray brake clean in the throttle body, see if it will keep running, then check fuel pressure, check injector pulse if all are good then there is nothing else just the injectors.

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Jay, check the wires on the external fuel pump, i've seen dealership replace a fuel pump and the car won't start, after 3 weeks of diagnosis turn out the tech who replace the pump install the wires backwards, - to the positive and + to the negative, the fuel pump buzzes but doesn't pump any fuel, it's always the simple staff that gets you. I usually spray brake cleaner into throttle body, A buddy of my recently got R32 with RB26 half cut, he tried to get it going with no luck i went over spray some carb cleaner, it fired up took the fuel injectors off and they wore gunked up beyond recognition, ultrasonic cleaning and the engine is running like a champ. Parts for those RB engines are stupid expensive

Well here gasoline is 6$ in the summer comes up to 8$ a gallon, monthly income is probably 10-20% from the US income, so gasoline is stolen often, more in the olden days but it happens till today. Pouring liquid gasoline in the intake is not advised, any back fire it will blow the intake. Starting fluid or propane is more safe because its vapor, in the pass i've stuck everything from camping stove, to map gas torch in intakes, but quickest i've found is to have two people one inside the car cranking and applying throttle and small amounts of brake clean, if the engine runs more time then without it, you missing fuel.

Have you tried spraying fuel or propane in the intake, to see are you losing spark or fuel, i've had something similar happened, someone had stolen my gasoline and fill the tank with water, how the car run i don't know but it will start up for few seconds and die, i sprayed some brake cleaner in the intake and seen i can keep the engine running, that got me checking the fuel pump that was an intake pump, when i took the assembly out, it was clear to me what happened, the fuel / water line was very visible.

Yesterday after work i stop by the steel place and bought me a piece of plate steel to make the diff mounts from. I also stop by a parts store and bought me an engine mount for a yugo new, and is also made in yugoslavia. This got me motivated to get things done, first part to come off was the passenger side suspension, i had to remove the spring to get the axle out, it will be a struggle to get them back in again. With the axle on a bench i removed the factory diff mount and oil seal plate. Then i did it all over again on the drivers side.

I remember as a child, renault 4 has no stamp vin numbers, people would tack off the vin plate that is hold on with 4 metal tabs and transfer it to a good shell and have a good car again haha.

Peugeot, do do a good job when balancing, my experience is 90's XU and TU engines, that said i've done a rebuild on the side of the highway in montenegro on a XU5j2c on a 405, lower radiator hose popped off, engine overheated but the gauge never moved because there was no water to transfer the heat to the sensor, piston ring binded up and lost all compression it wouldn't even start. Push it to the back of a gas station, removed the head, drop the oil pan removed the pistons and cylinder liners, hich hiked to the nearest town bought piston rings some silicone, head gasket. Replaced the rings, managed to drop 2 pistons on one i broke the piston skirt, the piston was surly out of balance but i assemble it, forgot to mention that i clean all the parts in the gas stations bathroom's sink, used gasoline from the pump and floor cleaner that i was given by the cleaning lady, assemble it, drove it back to macedonia and 1,5 years after, no vibration, it had better power then before and idle like a modern car with a carburetor and LPG, that engine got sold after i scraped the car i'm sure who ever bought it did not know that it has broken piston, cylinder head and block that have been smoothen with a hand file and the pistons and cylinder head has have been tighten with a tire iron and a fence pipe.

Joe, are you getting the front wings wings also painted or blended in, i've had many good and bad paint shops try to paint just one panel and it always shows, when they are preparing is not that much more work, just to sand them and blend the paint in the wings. I'll attach pictures from this winter when i had the front end resprayed on my 605, you can see how we bended in the fresh paint to the old in the wing and there is no separation even in the 25 year old paint.

I'm dealing with a bad battery now on my 607, i've also been thru all the diagnosis, its simply a bad battery, try disconnecting the negative terminal when not in use as Bean said, also try removing the radio fuse if you have a aftermarket radio, In all my years i've seen 3 things that cause battery draining issues, 1 failed electronics newer vehicles, digital dashes, 2 aftermarket radio, 3 partly failing alternator, one or more diode in the alternator is letting electricity to feed the alternator, very hard to diagnose, when it happens, on a cold day with a flare camera you can see the alternator is warm, but by hand is very hard to tell especially on the my 16 because is covered by the intake manifold partly.

Bikes, cars are appliances for me lately, i have few that are dear to me that i've shared on this forum and few that i haven't. Motorcycles are not dangerous, it's the other idiots in traffic that make them dangerous to ride. Like anything its getting worse as time passes, when i was riding bikes we use helmets to keep the bugs out of our eyes, now days it's a survival equipment.?

I started at 14-15 years to fix bikes (mopeds) at 16 i had a pretty big accident broke my jaw in 3 places, cracked skull, couple of dislocated joints. So i was told to tone it down that mean i'll get me something slow. At the time i was repairing staff for people so i had my own money so i bought me a Zastava 750 super, you can google it, its a copy of a fiat 600, very small italian design rear engined car with no joke 21hp, the bikes i was still driving at the time has 5X the hp. This didn't matter much because i did not had a licence still so i was only driving in my city's back roads. That did not last long because that car that i paid 60 euros for was rusted to death, someone has use expanding foam to patch the holes and bondo to cover them, that hold water and rusted away, my first clue was once i slam the drivers door and the seal panel fell off and i had a big hole there. I started to take it apart to fix it till i've seen there was nothing left. I stopped driving it went back to big bikes, and few days later i come home and there another even older but much better condition 750 with only 18Hp in the driveway. My father and brother bought it for me, i still have that car, drove it some learned to work on cars on it, made some memories, then the X05 peugeots come in my live and i'm still driving and working on them, i've had many of them. One big thing i learn pretty quickly and that french cars are reliable, after short time i learned that they will warn you if something is going to fail so you can change it and won't leave you on the side of the road. This is a long read, i hope i didn't bored you.

Wow, it's nice to see pictures, but you have some cleaning to do. You need to make room so you can work on any of them. My favorites are the white 405 and black 505. Jay, you may want to start a thread for them that way you can share your journey with fixing them and later driving them, cars keep me out of real trouble, so is not a bad hobby.

Nice work on the leather joe, it's still strange to me to see red leather seats in a 405, from past experience, after couple of coats of good quality recenditional with color it will be better, the leather absorbs it. For making the seats soft again, i use a domestic very good quality hand cream, on a hot day with the windows closed, and you can see the interior absorbs it, after few hours i go over them with leather cleaner to take off the excess. The seats in the 607 wore hard as a rock when i bought it, now they are soft as a children's hand.

Last few weeks have been incredibly busy for me at work. I've been using what spare time i have left to do some cleaning in the big garage. I've also done some work on the Little Niva, started taking apart the front suspension, and released i'll have to to drop the entire suspension, because the springs are in the way. That means i'll take this opportunity to change the suspension bushings, i also got me two rubber bushings for the front diff mounts, they are old but still good to use, they are made in yugoslavia so that dates them at least 30 years old. On a another front my new lada centre cap stickers arrived, i bought black ones with the new logo now, you can see the difference, compared to the silver ones i used on the sprinter wheels. That motivated me to do the work left to finish those wheels, to fix the corrosion around the centre caps. I sanded down all the corrosion, then i apply some 2K gray primer, that i'll left it to dry and shrink down.

Rabin, it makes no financial sense to even try fixing the windscreen, when it first happened i went to the best place that repairs them. Then the crack was only few sm long, they wanted 80 euros no guarantee if it will be visible, if it will spread and terrible customer service. Then i asked about replacing it in another company that has lots of volume it was 140 euros installed, same brand as the one that it has now so i figured sometime in the winter when i have time i'll take it there and get it replaced, so i'll let it finish cracking. The 605 has much softer ride then the 607 also the tires are 65 series tall agans the 45's on the 607 so a lot more of the road noise is transmitted. Than V6 HDI is much quicker and the 6 speed auto box is always ready to accelerate, its also always shifting, i've changed my mind about automatic gearboxes, the old 3 and 4 speeds i can't stand them. The asian tf-80sc is berable. On the other hand the 605 with its weight and its engine i'm driving it like a wind up car, if you want to pass some one you mast be in boost or you won't move. There is some fun in that winding it up and using all the power it has, on the 607 i haven't been passed 1/4 throttle in weeks, it pulls so hard and when you think it will stop it pulls much harder, i'm thinking progressive boost levels, because it a monster in 4th, 5th and 6st gear. Don't get me wrong is no drag car, but for its size the french have done it right. I plan to be driving the 605 during the winter because i have new winter tires for it and i don't want to have it destroyed from drivers that don't know how to drive. The 605 is veteran at the streets here.

Wow that’s awesome Mike, i'm much younger and i'm still making memories with cars, 1989 is the year that i was born. 400 000 miles= 648 000 km that is no joke especially for a petrol engine, i'm sure new cars won't reach noway near that and the roads today are much better then back then. I love hearing stories like this.

Small update, the crack in the windscreen seems to stopped, but that is not only thing that stopped their, coming home from work in a rainstorm, the windscreen wipers slowed down and stopped followed by a burnt smell. Because of it aerodynamic shape the water flows off the windscreen at speed which is good except the wipers stopped in the middle and only the left edge of my vision is clear so i ended driving like ace ventura with my head sideways. Left the car to rest for 2 days, i've been very busy at work, i drove the 605 and today i decided to see what is the problem, and guess what, it only a blown fuse. I did took off the cover for the mechanism, and greased up the mehanizam, one of the shafts was a bit tight, my thought is that shaft got hot and overloaded the wiper motor.