Nollington Hards progress blog

[NollingtonHards]

Thats fine, any sentence with "dodgy" and "accelerator cable" together sounds bad, so look all you want tommorow ha

There is a small amount of rubbing on the bonnet but you can see it tommorow its just minor rubbing on one side

[Gary406]

yep , sometimes my car is very slow, the accelarator peddel is stiff, and when you press the pedal to the floor it doesnt pull the pump all way across , only half way , so its totally f*cked up

[FarmerPug]

wheres the abs pump?

[Bailes1992]

wheres the abs pump?

Above the battery.

[NollingtonHards]

Spent today taking apart the seats


Lots of slicing apart the seats and cutting my little toe open the rear seats are in (excuse the awful pics, dark and on the camera phone)


Now got to do the front seats also many thanks to Gary406 for the seats

[lozz]

they look 100 times better than the Grey ones,

how come you had to take them apart ?

[NollingtonHards]

The seats are for a D9 so you have to switch the backplates for some from a D8, the D9 backplates don't fit into the D8s. You have to cut through the foam to fit the locking mechanisms so that the seats will lock into place

[Gary406]

so you managed it then did you manage to change them ok ? it is a perfect fit once you have cut the square out

great work mate, looking forward to seeing it complete with daytime piktures

[NollingtonHards]

Its done but it took a day, had to drill out the bolts that hold the ski flap opener down as i didn't want a black interior with grey plastic behind the arm rest. It is tricky and my finishing doesn't look too good but i think its turned out alright.

I will get some daytime photos once the fronts are in (have to wait now for a free day)

[Gary406]

i changed it all in 1 hour , even got the black bit from the back of the armrest...

[NollingtonHards]

There all in

Not only are they comfier they also hold you in the seat more than the cloths do when taking corners as the cloths are more rounded

[Gary406]

so your happy then

glad u got it sorted mate

all you need now is to re trim the doors

[NollingtonHards]

I dont know about re-trimming the doors, looks like a lot of effort but cambelts been booked and then its getting looooow

[NollingtonHards]

My cambelt paranoia is now over thanks to Kris B.
Very nice guy, lots of knowledge on XUD9s and peugeots in general and very good prices. Definitely recommend him as he is very competent
http://www.krisb.co.uk/
So cambelt is now done

Also while looking over his 306 1.9td (120-130HP) i noticed that he had removed an arm on the bosch pump to make it more free revving

I then took it of and

Well worth doing, feels much more like a petrol rev

Also my strut brace had been rubbing on the bonnet so he kindly hammered the rubbing areas in


This weekend its getting a LOOOONG overdue service so all in all its being treated rather well this week

Also been talking to him about getting a Bosch fuel pump put on mine that has access to the fuel pump.

[Gary406]

a 306 1.9td 120bhp ?