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Not knowing what steel PSA used it's better to assume you need to preheat and also let it cool in sand or inside an oven if you have a big one at hand. A pressed sleeve and plug welds will add a lot of mechanical strength even if it turns out welds on the mystery steel are prone to crack over time.
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Yeah. I just done the my trailing arm out of 25cromo4 and welded that with cromo rods. Didn’t seem too hard. But shaft seems even harder. I will try with good pre heating and see what I get. Is there a database of how long these shafts are this inners section alone.
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Probably not, but you said you were going to use chrome moly rods, which is, and takes considerable skill to use. I’d imagine they’re made of some type of special steel however and thus you’d need to be careful with heat.
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Are you sure it’s 4130?
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With some careful research, you can link codes and ratios on catcar.info
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Thanks , will have a good look at those later . Its only one BE3 box i need to know about now , from a 1997 306 Cabrio 2.0 litre 8V with the code 20CH60 .
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There's complete list for all PSA MA BE3 ML gearboxes on one of the French sites , but i cannot remember where i saw that ?!? Been searching myself recently too as i also need some codes deciphered .. Was something like : http://www.dethomaso.fr/ http://www.jsoclub.com/ ... there was complete PDF doc. , gear ratios and codes ... D
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Looking forward to seeing your 4130 tig welding.
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fishmouth the ends so its not just a straight weld all the way round, with a sleeve pressed inside and plug welded has worked well on a V6.
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Barn Find Laser Green 1.9 Gti.
Leslie green replied to Leslie green's topic in Projects & Works Starters
I think a long arm rivet gun would be perfect ,ordered one now 18 inch as its handy to have and cheap enough if too late this time ,didn't plan this job for now so wasn't fully prepared and once I started it was getting it done in one go. -
Well i think I'm going to make a sleeve and then weld it with cromo tig rods and see what happens.
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Barn Find Laser Green 1.9 Gti.
Tom Fenton replied to Leslie green's topic in Projects & Works Starters
I'm not surprised you struggled, those are machine blind rivets and need a powered riveter to set them usually! -
I am investigating the code numbers and gear ratios on my spare BE3 gearboxes , there is some information online and i have searched on the GTIdrivers forum but some of the links seem to be dead and lead nowhere eg track monkey . Does anyone have a list they could post up please .
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more… the Goal is allowing to screw a normal 205 frame on it, and modificate to reach 205 T16 evo1 frame…
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newer is not always better, more cost cutting!
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One would thing 206 gti axle would be better
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Looks like rubbish to me.
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begining to build tool for duplicate the real frame… Thomas, if need to use tool when ready… :-)
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Wow. My intention was to cut right at the point where solid and hollow meet. But the whole thing is hollow. Even the sline of the CV is hollow. Very hard as well. Now I guessed I have to make an inner sleeve
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Barn Find Laser Green 1.9 Gti.
Leslie green replied to Leslie green's topic in Projects & Works Starters
Head bolt spacers taken from another engine and sent for plating as the originals cannot be found . Decided id push on with one thing I was dreading the sunroof frame , I managed to buy a couple of new genuine rivets just to find the correct size , these are listed for the rubber strip at the back of the sunroof and do not use the tophat spacers the rest of the sunroof uses. (Phase 2 cars and some earlier cars use the rivets instead of the torx screws used till 1989 approx . The genuine Rivets are 4.8mm wide by 14mm deep , I suspect the top had one might be longer but I struggled to get the proper blind rivets any longer than 14.5mm ,can get open ones ok but you need sealed ones for this job . The tophats cannot be bought and as mine were all manged by careless removal I had to get new ones machined up which was a pain but no way round it . Put them all in first after fitted the tape , the Peugeot museum sells the tape cheap if you are getting other stuff , its only sticky on one side and one roll is just enough there won't be any spare so be careful or get 2 rolls , I cut 2 little triangle pieces to help the front sealing behind the tape it might help might not , and overlapped the joins as this is the way mine was when i removed it . I think if you don't overlap it may leak if the tape shrinks. The rivet gun I used was far too light duty and could one cope with 4.8mm max and the amount of force needed was crazy and with 33 rivets I was wrecked after , get a long handle one as some of them I thought id not get them snapped off . 20240723_144718 by Leslie, on Flickr 20240723_141859 by Leslie, on Flickr 20240723_141912 by Leslie, on Flickr 20240723_150658 by Leslie, on Flickr 20240723_161030 by Leslie, on Flickr -
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Thanks Cedrik!!! Very usefull…especially the roof. I havent seen this closeup. I probably have to wing it. Cant get the rear enginepod untill next summer probably.
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I'm currently in playa de carmen.
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@Berglundracing hope all is going well and you can back to the car soon
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Yep 25 splines and 82 OD.
