Not quite a direct answer to your questions, but one thing I've found very helpful when taking apart engines that I lack manuals for (or even ones that I have generic manuals for), is to take LOTS of digital pictures before ripping into it. Then you can refer to them when you are wondering exactly which vacuum hose goes where when reassembling it.
Zeke On 10/20/05, Brian Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Peugeot and diesel engines. I have no books for this fine > looking car. I was a pro VW mechanic during the 70s and early 80s. Now > I am a pro electronics tech. I prefer to read about a job before I do > the wrenching. I have a decent garage in which I am able to weld with > gas and electric and of course I am very handy with the electronics. I > am often asked for advice on various home auto repair projects to > which my first suggestion is to get the book and if possible get the > official service manuals and read them. I am not a magician, merely a > mechanic and lately I work only on our fleet of ranch vehicles. > > This said, I am about to pull the head off of my Peugeot not knowing > where hoses and wires will return to nor what they do, then attempt to > buy a head gasket from I don't know where. Not my ideal way of > working, and certainly goes against everything I have preached all > these years. > > I have rarely worked on a diesel engine and never a turbo diesel. I > need to understand how the Peugeot turbo works and if it is working. I > would like to test it while the head is off as this seems like as good > a time as any since it is under the manifolds. I joined the Yahoo > Peugeot-L group but they don't seem to know where to get information > either as I have posted numerous requests for service manuals and > parts ordering contacts. I don't mean to sound ungrateful the Peugeot > group gave me the name of one guy in Vermont who seems to have access > to a microfiche. Remember those? I even own a reader which if I dug > around in the barn I might even be able to lay hand to. Still, he has > the info not me. As far as I am concerned it is like saying," I have a > gun, not here but I have one." > > Questions I have put forward to date are: White exhaust smoke and > expanding coolant hoses are invariably signs of a blown head gasket, > where do I buy parts? Where do I look up information online? Does > Peugeot really not have a decent web presence? Sorry if I am > forgetting those who wrote back and given advice and those who told me > of Mr.Brian Holm, I have written to him. I should call and may do so > from work tomorrow. I feel exposed not having anything going for me. > > Anxious in New Mexico > Brian Rodgers > www.outfitnm.com > The Outfit > 801 Douglas Ave. #1 > Las Vegas New Mexico 87701 > 505-454-9661 > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
