Nollington Hards progress blog

[Gary406]

tracking rods ? you mean track rod ends ?
£250 to replace both sides ? what sort of garage is that, that is phucking price extorsionet ,

heres the track rod end http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PEUGEOT-406-TRACK ... 4cef5c130d

it certainly does not cost £230 in labour

[NollingtonHards]

I know mate, i went to ECP and asked and they said a track rod was £15 each so i have no idea how they got the quote.

I want to get under the car and look for myself (try WD40/wire brush and a hammer) and do a bit of reading up on it.

Would heavily prefer to do it myself so will be looking into it

Also i remember you wanted to know whether the car scraped when it was lowered 40mm. I have only had a few dings of my exhaust when i had 3 friends in the car and a load of car stuff was in the boot but apart from that nothing at all.

[Bailes1992]

I did mine myself.
You can either change just the track rod end of the whole trackrod like I did.

Cost me about £50 all in for the parts and tools to do it.

For a few days in advance give everything a spray over in WD40.

Undo the locknut behind the trck rod end and then undo the bolt holding the track rod end into the hub.
Hit the hub near the track rod end with a BIG hammer! It should pop out. Do not hit track rod end out of the hub as you may damage the taper it sits in


Unscrew the track rod end from the tie rod. At the end of the tie rod theres a rubber boot. Remove this rubber boot.
You will need a tool like this...


This slides down the tie rod and grips onto the ball joint on the end to undo it.
Once you got it undone prep your new track rod with some locktite...


Then screw it back in hand tight, before nipping it up with the tie rod removal tool.

Stick the boot back on it (hold it together with tie wraps).
Fill the threads on the end with copper grease.
Put a little grease over the hole of the track rod end and screw the track rod end back on.
Bolt the track rod end to the hub greasing up the taper it sits in.
Once it's all bolting up, do up the locknut tight to the end of the track rod end.

Then take it for four wheel alignment

[plod]

Might give it ago myself though, any advice would be much appreciated

Heat! and lots of it

One of mine wouldn't budge, and had to get an Oxyacetaline torch on it - garage charged me £15 to change it

[NollingtonHards]

Bailes1992 i love you ha i didnt expect a guide with photos. Appreciate it a lot

Plod ive only got a hair dryer and a lighter to heat it ha

[NollingtonHards]

Are these the right things to get?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Peugeot-Track-Rod ... 433wt_1139

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Inner-Tie-Track-R ... 135wt_1139

[Bailes1992]

Are these the right things to get?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Peugeot-Track-Rod ... 433wt_1139

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Inner-Tie-Track-R ... 135wt_1139

No, thhe inner track rods above are both the same thing :p You need a pair of one of the above (one for each side).
And you need to order these...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Peugeot-406-tie-r ... 35a95e4e83

[NollingtonHards]

Was cleaning my car and noticed my botch job attempt at getting rid off the rust that i did nearly a year ago now

No more wire brushes, i got my drill out and

Also fitted my new licence plate bolts
Old

New


Next up i have to do my track rods. Ive got the track rod ends but the rods are yet to come.
Also will be looking to de-cat my car soon

[NollingtonHards]

Kurusted

Sprayed over

Few other little bits done. Should hold it at bay for a while ha

Went to brands hatch the other day and saw this bad boy


Now on the look for alloys so PM if you have some for sale. Preferably 16/17's

[NollingtonHards]

Got an sub for £35 pretty local to me.

Hoping to get it wired up this week
Im thoroughly annoyed with the 406 aftermarket stereo layout. I found a DVD player/stereo online for £65 locally BUT the angle of the stereo means the DVD screen wouldn't be able to fold completely out. It would be at a slant so had to give that one a miss

[NollingtonHards]

I thought id go scrap yard and see what they had. £25 lighter and i came away with
A rapier ash tray

Some silver vent buttons

Silver handbrake end

A new air filter housing of a 306

and finally a spoiler


Then spent an hour or so wiring up the sub.