1952 Paris built Normale RSJ 834

Thought that today I would wash off all the crud under the bonnet. Only to find a broken engine mount spring thing. Apart from that no nasty surprises.

@mpopka wrote:

Walter Rey, a TOC member offers a rubber “silent bock£” as an alternative to the springs.
Fitting is straightforward and you remove the rubber silent block behind the engine.

Contact me for more information

Hmmm, I wonder if that would reduce my booming noise – details would be great, even just to try it out.

Are you no closer to finding out what or where the noise is coming from? Mine seems pretty quiet really but then the engine is a normal run of the mill original unit.

@bazessex wrote:

I was looking at finding a replacement for the springs because I thought they were transmitting a lot of noise through the body from the engine. I wonder what replaces the rear block. Looks like I need to speak to this man.

Nothing replaces the rear block which is why using the silent blocks instead of the springs is supposed to make the car quieter. Can’t confim though as my car is still standard in that area.

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After a while on the hoist I found why the front left drum brake was not working properly. The brake pipe which looks original has corroded and a pin hole is letting fluid out. So need new brake pipes. Is it me or are the pipes bigger than the normal size? I have a flaring tool but the pipe looks a bigger diameter is this right?
The good news there are no signs of any rust underneath at all. The front floor looks like it has been replaced within the last couple of years. So will steam clean underneath and prime, paint and spray stoneguard on all the exposed surfaces underneath.

There’s some info in Floating Power – Volume 33 issue 1 January/February 2009 re the differences between a Perfo / 11D / DS engine

I can confirm that DS engines have a cast aluminium sump (with a complicated oil filter setup where you get covered in oil changing the filter element….) whilst the Perfo is steel with just a drain plug.

Whether you could put a cast sump on a perfo with the oil filter removed, I really don’t know.

It may be simpler to fit a DS engine/gearbox combo rather than trying to ‘mix and match’

I know some have fitted DS engines in a Traction and hopefully someone who has done that can confirm what is needed for you.