Peugeot 206 - XUD9 VNT Lash Up

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So having a day off yesterday I thought it best to drop the box on the 206. As you do.

Squeezed it in the shed (it’s stacked atm as we’ve taken down our other one in place of a rebuild)







So seeing as the CG clutch has done just over 4000 miles, thought it would it good to see what the condition was like.



Pretty good really, bit of dust, but that’s to be expected. Can even see some of the original coating on the paddles. Release bearing on the pressure plate is still good too. So blew it all out with the compressor and refitted.

Didn’t fancy putting a DT/Xantia box back on and certainly not a HDi. Didn’t have a 6 box to hand so went with a NAD box. From an earlier conversation regarding ratios, it was reckoned that the FD was 19:77, opposed to 19:75 for a DT. So a little shorter across the range.

So the box off the NAD Xsara, I had, was adapted to take a Pull clutch. The old man popped in at lunch and helped lift the box back in. Spent the afternoon connecting everything back together, had a visit from Connor (Mac22) which he helped with putting the driveshafts back in.

With everything connected & tight, jumped in, turned the key and went for a pull up the road. Does drive well now and has the closer gear changes that I was after. 70mph is just over 3k RPM.

While it was apart I fitted some GTI struts from Matt-Rallye so I’ll be offering up the 40mm lowering springs if anyone will want them, also the 307 HDi 283mm brakes will be swapped out soon too.

As for any other plans…f**k knows. Keep driving until MOT/Insurance is out or it goes bang.

Time to rewind a little.

So back up in the thread I started to strip the original D8B Xantia engine.

This is finally being revisited (with a push from Frosty). The head had been skimmed previously so I popped up to Hemyock one night and we pulled the valves and ground them all in again. Thank god its only an 8 valve. Then stuck the cam in and checked all the clearances, they were all pretty much bang on which was quite pleasing.













Need to finish the bottom end now.

Cheers for looking