504 Ti won't start

After much struggling, I managed to forcibly remove the tank yesterday. I still don't understand why it was so hard to remove. Like most things on rear-wheel drive Peugeots, it's very well designed, and should have just dropped out. Something has changed or moved, but I can't see why or how. I'll have to modify it to get it back in.

Anyway, the news isn't good. Removing the gauge sender revealed lots of rust flakes and dust. I don't know why none of it came out in the petrol that was drained. It's going to need internal cleaning and refurbishment. But at least I can run the engine from a jerry can. Maybe I could leave the tank out completely and set it up to run from a portable tank for an outboard motor on a boat. Just strap it in the boot and plug it in. :)
 
What a timely question! I'd completely forgotten about this thread, and I'm horrified to see that it's nearly 18 months since I was last did anything about it. I picked up an outboard tank from my brother a couple of days ago, but have yet to do anything else. I'll have to buy a suitable hose and bayonet connector from a boating shop, and I'll have to buy another filler cap for it and modify it to take the return fuel line.
So nothing to report yet.
Once I can run it using the outboard tank, at least I can safely and easily run the engine now and then until I either restore the car's tank or find a replacement.
 
Hey, you know if it was a Leyland P76 you could just load up a 44 gallon drum into the boot and run a rubber fuel line!
 
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We laughed at Japanese cars. Then we laughed at Korean cars. Now we're laughing at Chinese cars.
I should add that for the past 13 months I've been driving my dear late mother-in-law's 10-year-old Kia Rio. Very impressed, and not a car I would have ever considered owning.
 
Haha! One of my favourite motoring journo quotes regarding the 44 gallon drum in a P76 boot..."the answer to the question nobody asked"
 
Be very careful - the dizzy and starter can both spark and set fire to the fuel when cranking with a line disconnected. The cold start injector has to be earthed to work and you can set yourself on fire checking these things too.


Pug_405_Mi16 said:
Hello,

Take an injector line off at the injector end and crank it over and see if any fuel is getting through, take a lead off and check for spark. That will lead you to fuel or electrical.

Having some exposure to TI's over the years have seen several with a hole in the main diagram in the pump which causes very poor to no running. These are super expensive to get now and I think the last one I got came from Germany.

Good luck, a good running TI is a great thing!

Ben
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^ I did that in 2002 after getting too casual about these things. I did the fastest high fence jump I have ever done to get the hose on the other side.
 
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