Welcome, thumbs up und viel Erfolg!

What a nice welcome, thanks a lot (:

@-er-,

admitted, I am a little late to the party, and most of you can say "been there, done that", but with the 306 pushing 30 years and becoming historical in germany, and just being a great car (hopefully ), I think it should stay on the streets as long as possible. I ll do my best.

Welcome along. Looks like you've had your work cut out for you but you're making good progress and doing all the right things!

The good thing with "being late to the party" is that most of the problems have been dealt with before and documented on this forum, as you've found.



A bit of advice here, the tunnel is made of multiple panels and a rivnut won't work well (panels are too far apart). Either find someone with a stud welder or, drill a hole through all panels then weld a bolt on inside (at the head of the bolt) and again on the bottom where the bolt emerges in the tunnel. Also, be careful if drilling as there's wires, that run from the front to rear, above the tunnel

Good luck!

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No worries, I have not forgotten y'all.

I finished the Cambelt and Waterpump. Surprisingly/shockingly it was still the first pump, dated back to 1999. And tbh i felt absolute 0 difference in terms of the bearing to my new valeo one. Impeller was flawless, would propably leaked asap fitted the new tensioner but... still impressive. Same time I changed both main Seals and both cam Seals for good measure. Sadly the gear on the crankshaft had absolutely no intention of leaving its place, so after some liiiiiiiight persuasion i managed to get it off. And immediately broke it in the process. Well done, but luckily not specific to the RS engine, so a used replacement found its way.






(pictures with old cambelt and idlers etc)

New clutch installed as well. what a treat those oldschool peugeot workshop tools for locking the flywheel or cam sprockets are.







In addition to this the rallye Aux Belt Setup was installed as well.



Gearbox got as mentioned above new VSS, seals, bushes and carrier



So after that I fancied some new parts and made that


into this


that has to be the last fcnk time I tortured myself with those cheap ebay spring compressors

After 2 weeks the remaining torsion bar had soaked long enough in rust remover and after a few "light taps with a hammer" it fell out. I also found out why the ABS light was on.

Can you spot it?



Now this weekend the temperatures were more likely to get some rust stuff done. My home for the past 2 days was here



with some pretty heavily corroded parts. Due to researching this forum I know it isnt really that bad, but I never really had to do this kind of work.







i was relatively fast fed up with that mess and decided to go over to a much more worse part in my opinion...



but to my surprise all snapped of bolts that are relevant (front subframe x1, both rear bump stopps, wing front left) came out reeeeeeeelatively well.



next stepps will still be getting everything (that makes sense) ready to be blasted and powdercoated and to cure the rust furthermore.

A question near the end, do you guys think this is still salvageable? Glas out of course, I am not sure if the tail got damaged aswell, or if someone just fillered his whole soul onto it because of the rust



thank you all very much!




edit:

and... yeah. that sheet was a bad idea.



(red is money spent without the car)

Ola.

Nothing really interesting the past few weeks, as I am S T I L L waiting for the parts to get blasted. I am grateful, that someone at all agreed to do the work, because a few people just gave me the "nah fam, thats too little, too finicky whatever" but... i cant do nothing without the subframe cups, or the trailing arms, or engine mounts what ever.

So I am an expert in getting lost in absolutely unneccessary stuff, but even that runs out at the moment. A new/better interior is also nowhere near in sight so.. I'll wait then. I rereouted a few cables, cleaned the PAS reservoir, installed the bumpstops in the rear, replaced the brake reservoir as it was disgusting and I disturbed the seals by removing it, replaced a few clips, installed the new clutch cable and the counterpart inside the car and... yeah. wtf was that. Luckily all that stuff is still available from the dealer.





And he was in for a service, new headlights, vibratec engine mount etc etc. drives great!

Next monthly Update, close on a year after I bought the car.

I left you with the metal heatshields, the brake pipes and the very worn calipers. Guess what, I'll continue with that. So I stripped them calipers down and cleaned them. The front ones were mostly ok just worn, the rear ones.. guess there're salvageable, but I got a pair of good used GTI180 calipers in my stash so just used them. pistons were free, so I replaced the boots and sliders only. The front calipers got new pistons, seals, sliders and boots. And because they were rusty af I decided to paint them aswell, a nice and not to bright gold/zinc plated color. Got the new lines to the rear flared aswell. They fit very nicely.





The heatshields overneath the manifold and under the tank are this cloth type of material. Tbh it wasnt thaaaat bad, but not good enough to just put them back in, so I searched and found a very similar looking self adhesive material and gave it a try.





Also sanded down the 6 lines from the abs pump, primered and painted them because of corrosion/spillage




Thats were the most time got spent. Sadly I still havent got my parts back from the blasters, so I decided to derust and paint the PAS cooler, added it and a few more bits and pieces to the engine bay and tried to "restore" the backbox as best as I could, without spending a fortune. Its an old Devil Box. Not necessarily my first choice, but hopefully the car will get TÃœV with it. Due to TÃœV its not an easy task to get a nice stainless system. Mostly some 4th party aftermarked bs or just the backbox for an huge amount of money.



Thats all. At the moment I am sanding the cyclones back to bare aluminium, because one of the pre owners thought it was a good idea to paint them black. without sanding. over the oxidation.


just a nice picture showing the "progress" made...

Well, its been a very long while.

This is propably my last update as for this year, because its getting cold and i am getting progressively more fed up of wrong parts arriving, parts arriving way too late or not at all. A big part of this was the absolute atrocious desaster which was the absolute oddysee of getting the parts blasted. Spoiler, i've got them blasted finally, but that manoveur costs us half a fckg year. I still cant believe it.

For all of you who just want to watch pictures (no blame, i'm the same ) were getting there, just a recap what was done after my last update:

- subframe back in
- front suspension complete
- brakes complete
- rear axle and everything around it complete
- tank in
- cyclones painted
- gear linkage bearing changed
- all blasted parts painted
- front driveshafts reassembled and abs rings changed
- dozens of clips, fasteners and what not replaced, refinished, what ever

Pictures! A lot of them.

Lets start with the cyclones. I sanded them to bare aluminium and fillered a cut or whatever back in to get them smooth. Sanded again. Primer. Sand again. A few layers of Peugeot/Citroen EVT Silver and 2k laquer later and they looked somewhat decent. I am not fully satisfied, as there a still some sandmarks visible but for my first try... its okay, will see if I retry or give them away. In hindsight I should have just get an okay set from another car, but knowing, that its the set from factory... dunno, just wanted to try, I guess.











the bearing in the gear linkage was done. thanks to this board I quickly found out what I needed, ordered it and changed it. would be a pita to do it afterwards so:





Somewhere in that timeframe i got my parts back, prepped them asap and painted them. The paint I used is called "foliatec 2k satin black" - saw it on youtube and thought I should give it a try. The finish is I would say nearly as good as was on the factory parts, and it should last, as its water/chemical/hit/whatnotproof. On top of that I'm not a fan of powdercoating. Will see how it will last.
Maybe powder would be more able to smooth the pitting out, but not sure. nothing i can or will do about that.














Quite happy for that garage and frame, perfect for painting.

So with that done I got the front wheel bearings and hubs pressed in aswell 2 new 2dsracing rear hubshafts (old ones were damaged, likely by the axle rebuild people) and 2 new OE Peugeot rear axle shafts. They were pressed in flush with the arm, but no offense to the dude who pressed them. The rubbish china shafts were also flat, I guess he took them for reference. I was propably the first guy in a long time who wanted them to get pressed in, so I hammered them 2mm back out, for the foam seal to sit in. I also put on 2 NOS seals for the tubeseal to sit against.






Now with all parts gathered more or less, I could finally start with reassembling. Citroen ZX subframe and new subframe cup cage nuts were the start, I put some protective cavity wax onto them and in the frame aswell, as there will be water again at some point.






So, the elefant in the room with all 90s PSA cars. Rear axle. You are lucky. You have those amazing people overhauling axles to an amazing standard. Beeing in germany and only able to getting ... not so good remanufactured axles, I decided early in the project to just get everything sensible I can new from peugeot. Its an expensive approach but knowing from the 206 chassis, that the rear axle makes or breakes a car, I did not want to cheap out here. So new tube with bearings, shafts, seals, fasteners, bearings, hubs and (nearly new) 20mm bars and a 24mm arb. Picked them up from a 306 MAXI owner during german "eifel rallye festival". What a find, and what a nice man! The only things coming from the donor axle are the arms itself and handbrake brackets etc (yes, arms still available new, i know) but as there are straight I used them. Was a lot of work to get them looking as good as I was able to, but given a new set is round about 1k.. Came out good. I set the shock distance to +-320mm as given a good measure here with eibachs in front. A slight disappointment were the rearsteer bushings I ordered from the Museum. They were sold as NOS as far as I remember, but I got some Sasic Bushes with an OE Sticker. The bushings have a fair amount of give, so I think they will do the passive rearsteer thing, but... not very impressed with that. But good luck finding NOS parts, for not a ridicilous price.
Ah, I forgot. Pics. Sorry.



what am i doing with my life...










wheels matching well with the brakes.


Being under the car, I saw that the fuel tank elbow was over it. So ordered a new one from france and fitted it, aswell changed the abs sensor ring on both driveshafts. And treated myself a green filter. Have one in my gti180 for 10 years, love them.






after that I just put the rear and front back on, covered up some loose ends to get her ready for winter. I originally wanted to write this update when everything I wanted to do is finished, but here we are. Its not more than putting a spare set of oz f1s on the car and pushing her out, because i want my gti180 in over the winter.



So I think thats most of the work done covered. Hopefully a few on here are still reading it. Maybe I tackle the damaged seats over the winter, but...most likely not tbh.

Thanks for reading!

Chrissi

Small edit:

now on its wheels, windshield cowling (?) reinstalled to keep it somewhat watertight.
I think I've got the rear height pretty good. tank completely empty, no exhaust, but full interior (in parts) and spare parts.