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Just finished taking the broken pipe out Sent from my SM-A520F using Tapatalk

Yeah i unscrewed the fitting from the steering box yesterday, its the top bit where the pirtek guy welded the fitting to the pipe that snapped clean off. Yeah changing spark plugs & doing extractor bolts on the drivers side bank with a v8 is a pain in the arse, cant get a ratchet & socket on no 4 spark plug cos the Power steering line (suprise suprise) is in the way so have to get creative with a socket & a little extension & use multi grips to undo the spark plug, & use a cut down 14mm open ended spanner on the bottom extractor bolt cos otherwise your hitting the firewall. I changed the ps to manual steering in my ZL to quickly pass rwc cos i was impatient haha. I didnt really like it cos it was hard to reverse park it & parallel park but was good when the car was in motion. Sent from my SM-A520F using Tapatalk

Try setting the timing on 12-15 degrees, take it for spin. Sounds like the rings are shot, (blowby) and higher compression when wet.

The 11mm ones are actually 7/16" and are aftermarket bolts specific to this application. The factory size ones are 9/16" or 14mm. Thread is 3/8" UNC. Sent from my CPH1903 using Tapatalk

Yeah my other ones are 11mm too Bear but the last one on the bottom on the drivers side near the firewall has a 14mm head on the bolt

My extractor bolts are 11mm, PITA to get the one next to the firewall, but its doable with a combination spanner.

I can't have oil leaks... I've only got one left

Good topic . I've been experimenting using all factory stuff . Started with XC disc/hub unit Cut the rotor off machine the hub ( that is originally around 20mm thick) to allow for added thickness of rotor I didn't finish my setup but a mate has and he used calipers from a territory and rotors , I think his were 322mm Once hub is machined you need to leave the centre hub a little oversize than the wheel centre part to locate the rotor The caliper bolts up to the XC factory lower hole on the stub axle Machine a spacer to centre caliper A top mount block needs to be made up from original stub axle hole to caliper Anyway his all came up good and is running. He did do some pics on FordForums.com.au My setup I was using all FG calipers etc and 322 mm rotors . I had some interference between the rotor O.D and caliper but his with the territory gear worked .

this is another reason i liked the crossflow engine .. clevo was such an asshole to work on anything. i almost fitted a manual steering box, and if i had another Xseries car i'd do this as soon as i had power steering issues.. sick of them . i can't explain enough to @BGDAV how many times i leave a small leak Vs trying to fix it (or paying someone else to) only for it to break something or make it worse.. hopefully can get the broken bit out of the box if thats what you broke

With an .030 bore that roughly equates to a 383 cubes, could be one of the older offset ground stroker crank setups, if it was done here it would most likely be a pro stroke kit using an offset ground 351 crank