niwid
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can you use a short length of hose pipe to you ear and hold it near various components in the engine bay to see if you can pinpoint where its coming from? Tried it with a screwdriver, I'm really not good at pinpointing sounds though as I am partially deaf. It seemed to be coming from the transmission end of the engine low downish. |
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The only slight grain of comfort I can share is that one of the 1.1 205s I owned had the same rumble at the same sort of revs and, whilst I never found the root cause, it swallowed around 6000 trouble feel miles with me. Can quite understand your reluctance to push it though, I just became quite devil may care with mine!
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jonomisfit
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pilot bearing in the flywheel?
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You can run the engine without the auxiliary drive belt to rule out the alternator. My TU engine once made a funny noise when the lower timing belt cover was mounted poorly and touched the moving parts. Use a stick of some sort to poke the covers thru the front wheel opening while the engine is running and see if it makes any difference.
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Citroën DS 21 '66, Renault 16 TS '73, Scimitar GTE '74, Audi 80 '87, Merc 190E '88, Peugeot 205 GTI '88, BMW 735iL '89, Merc 230TE '89 , BMW 320i '92
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pilot bearing in the flywheel? no bearing on most fwd stuff especially of this age. did you fit a new release bearing? does the noise go away when you press the clutch in? |
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niwid
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pilot bearing in the flywheel? no bearing on most fwd stuff especially of this age. did you fit a new release bearing? does the noise go away when you press the clutch in? Fitted a new release bearing, then when I took the box off again noticed that it was a slightly different size to the old one and had been catching the pressure plate. Thought that might be the noise I was hearing so put a good one on from a second hand box I had. No difference. Clutch doesn't do anything. The only thing that changes the sound is revs. |
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niwid
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You can run the engine without the auxiliary drive belt to rule out the alternator. My TU engine once made a funny noise when the lower timing belt cover was mounted poorly and touched the moving parts. Use a stick of some sort to poke the covers thru the front wheel opening while the engine is running and see if it makes any difference. I will do that, and will be taking the timing cover off and looking in there while it's running. I don't think it's coming from that side of the engine though. |
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niwid
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I'm wondering if it could be anything to do with the dizzy or fuel pump? I have a spare of both, and new gaskets for the fuel pump so tempted to swap them over and see.
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niwid
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Jul 23, 2020 10:01:56 GMT
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Thought I'd post a small update as I've sorted the "Mystery Noise". It was a loose bolt on the alternator bracket. Tightened it. Runs sweet as a nut now. I feel very silly
Will update properly soon, getting the brakes working this week and hopefully giving it a good wash
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niwid
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Not many photos but a few updates with the little pug I've gone over the braking system, starting with replacing a leaking rear cylinder before replacing discs and pads and finishing two days ago with replacing a suddenly leaky master cylinder. It stops well now, with a nice, positive pedal feel. However the pedal travels a long way before engaging the brakes, and I'm wondering if there is an adjustment I can make somewhere to bring the brake bite higher? I've also fitted some cheap speakers in all four corners, as the originals were...well...  I've also bought some new hoops! I fancied a change (though I do like the 106 steels and centre caps) and after a recent investigation the DOT code on the tyres points to them being 20 years old! So I bought these...  Many internet points to anyone who can identify what car they are from. Yes its a Ford. They were £150, fully refurbed with "good tyres". Turns out "good" simply means that they have plenty of tread. Two are from 2010 and two are from 1999! I'm putting the ten year olds on the rear (no cracks, should be fine until I can afford to spend on another pair) and have bought two new tyres for the front. I've bought some spacers to sort the offset out, which should arrive on Monday. Hopefully I've measured correctly and they should fit nicely. I'm wondering about painting the centres matt black, and the centre caps green to match the side stripe and piping on the seats. I'm thinking of cutting up the centre caps from the 106 steels to make caps for these with the correct Peugeot logo. Thoughts on this photoshop?  I will update with photos of them fitted in due course. For now, have a shot I took while enjoying a nice autumn drive in Leicestershire  |
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They're lovely, but won't you have an issue with the centre bore? I'd have thought they'd be 63.4, whereas the 205 is 65.1.
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They're lovely, but won't you have an issue with the centre bore? I'd have thought they'd be 63.4, whereas the 205 is 65.1. Correct, but the 20mm spacers I've ordered take care of that with different centre bores  |
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Sweet! I don't suppose you could send me a link to said spacers? I'd love to swap the wheels on my 205 for something more interesting! Thanks.
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Sweet! I don't suppose you could send me a link to said spacers? I'd love to swap the wheels on my 205 for something more interesting! Thanks. They should bring most fwd ford stuff to an offset useable on a 205. I'll report back when I've fitted mine! |
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Sweet! I don't suppose you could send me a link to said spacers? I'd love to swap the wheels on my 205 for something more interesting! Thanks. They should bring most fwd ford stuff to an offset useable on a 205. I'll report back when I've fitted mine! You're quite lucky being able to do that, unfortunately if you've got a FWD Ford after about 1990 you're stuck if the centre bore on the wheels is too small as the offsets are so high (around ET47.5-52.5) most of the time! Peugeot wheels fit fine in terms of centre bore, but often have too much poke even without spacers. |
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Last Edit: Nov 7, 2020 8:09:46 GMT by jasellan
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Sadly I can't guess as I know the answer from FB. They do look like the corvette wheels I've seen fitted to other things (think there was a BMW on here).
Post some pictures when you get them fitted!
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I'm curious as to what they are as I thought the only "propellor" type wheel in Fords were Puma 5 spokes....
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niwid
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Sadly I can't guess as I know the answer from FB. They do look like the corvette wheels I've seen fitted to other things (think there was a BMW on here). Post some pictures when you get them fitted! I totally know what you mean re. Corvette wheels, but they aren't quite as snazzy as those lol. I kinda think they remind me most of the trims on the metro GTA when someone didn't spec alloys, which I do like lol |
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niwid
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I'm curious as to what they are as I thought the only "propellor" type wheel in Fords were Puma 5 spokes.... There are quite a few actually, it took me a while to work out where these came from |
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