Back in a Peugeot!

[Tallguy_2]

Well, picked the old girl up on Friday night and got her back home ready to start on Saturday. First stop was post office to tax it...... Why does every old granny feel the need to come out on a weekend, they should be restricted to weekdays only! An hour later and my pocket was £123.75 lighter!!

First stop was off to collect a bonnet, mine has gone a bit white and hazy and cloudy in the lacquer, the one I looked at however was virtually orange which means it looks like respraying after all.

I wiped round and cleaned the throttle body the other week and cleaned out the mass air flow meter which made it run a lot better, however it now idled at 1,600 rpm with the idle screw fully in......

After playing with the AFM I could get the idle down but it ran like shit,



You move the little cog round and it adjusts the mixture of fuel and air, so the idle was now down but far to lean, played wit the mixture and base idle screws to get it down, however the car only felt good when driving if the idle was at 1,600 rpm which I wasn't happy with as in a traffic jam it would over heat. I came to the conclusion that the throttle body obviously wasn't closing far enough even though it was stopping on the microswitch, so...... Throttle body off.




This was so full of carbon when I split it off the inlet, so after a lot of cleaning and polishing it was looking like new and the inlet cleaned as much as possible too.
Yes the flap was hitting the microswitch stop but there was still a lot of daylight between the butterfly and barrel. So adjusted the switch up for when the butterfly hit the barrel and stopped.

Next up was refit and hope for the best, AFM back to standard, air mixture screw back to standard, idle screw four turns out, base screw set to the stop. Here was me fingers crossed turning the key after hours of messing about......... Yes!!!! 900 rpm, everyone said don't even bother but to me it wasn't right, took it out for a run and it was 100% better, however a tiny little flat at 4k revs, hopped it moved the spring 2 cogs, tried again and boom, a nice linear pull all the way through!

It felt surprisingly quick, went to look at some wiring near the ecu though and found superchips written on it so who knows!

Today's plan.... Get on the cleaning!