Haf

Hey Guys, I have a 97 XH XR6 5-speed ute with about 185000 km on it and have just noticed a type of a shuddering or sticking coming from the rear of the car. It always happens at low speeds when reversing into the garage or around the car park. It also seems to only happen when the car is hot, as in I've been driving it for a while at normal operating temperature. I had Ford replace the diff and manual gearbox oil a few months ago and it's lucky to have driven 2000 km since then. Has anybody else had a similar problem/noise? Once the car is travelling over 10 km/h I can't hear or feel the problem at all and it drives perfectly. Cheers..... Haf Apologies if this has been asked in the past but I searched the forums and could not find a thing.

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Need to replace the fuel tank in my 97 XH Falcon ute, found one on ebay but it's from an XF, can anybody out there advise if it will fit?

I played around with the distributor and reinserted a different way and hey presto all is good. Had the timing set professionally and the ute goes like stick now, thanks for all your help and suggestions guys.

Hooked the hose back up between the inlet manifold and rocket cover breather (PCI) I think it's called. Grabbed some Delectric grease for the TFI and guess what, won't start. Re-gapped the spark plugs, no good. Placed piston 1 at TDC and checked to make sure the rotor button was in line with lead number 1 and it was. Still won't kick. Check every spark plug, they all have spark, tske the new dizzy out and put the old one back in at the marked setting, still won't kick and now my battery is flat. It's on charge now overnight, I have spark, air and compression, tomorrow I'll pull the fuel line off at the EFI to make sure I have fuel. I have turned the dizzy from side to side (old and new) during starting and no change. There's a mechanic down the road who's going to give me a hand, any ideas from you guys??

Went over all the connections, high tension leads, the lot and could not find anything. Now I have flushed the radiator during thos whole process and am pondering moisture in the TFI. She spins well and wants to kick and just misses out, it almost sounds like it gets fuel then doesn't. So that's why I'm thinking and hoping moisture in the TFI connection. I don't have any of that special grease so I sprayed the crap out of both connections with marine grade Inox. It sounded a bit better but still won't run. I'll let her sit overnight, try again in the morning and if it's still no good I'll go and grab some of that special grease. One other thing I've thought of is that small hose that connectd to the rocket cover near the oil cap had come off. It connects to the breather on the rocket cover and connects somewhere else under the EFI, I couldn't find it's connection under the EFI so I left it off, could this be a problem? Thanks.,, Haf;

All back together, spins and spins and won't kick. I wonder if there's moisture in the TFI module connection? What else? I'll go over all the connections again....,

Jack, Found the mark on the cam wheel and got it perfectly horizontal with the dizzy side of the head just as the 1st cylinder made compression. Old dizzy out, new one in, I've also fitted the new inlet manifold gasket. What a difference in thickness between the two. I reckon the old one was the original, it was 1-2mm thick. Just have to drop the oil, put in the new fuel filter, fit a new gasket to the cooling system and she should be right to fire up. Haf.

Back to Repco today and I'll grab a new inlet manifold gasket and Bosch distributor. TFI module, is that the grey rectangular insert on thr side of the dizzy? If it is I have one of those ready to go, so I hopefully have everything covered bar the head gasket. If the head gasket is blown shouldn't there be air bubbles in the radiator water/coolant?

Slydog, Just recently bought the ute with 167000 km on it and it drives nice and tight. It has Ford service history up to 100000 km and then it stops. It has had oil changes and I reckon that's about it. Once the engine is hot it develops a miss and it's drinking lots of fuel. The spark plugs were stuffed, I've changed those and the high tension leads look like the originals. So I've thought stuff it, I'll just replace everything in one foul swoop while I've got it all apart and since it hasn't seen a spanner in 67000 km I thought it was due. I'll buy another inlet manifold gasket tomorrow as well as a new distributor. Appreciate all the suggestions guys. Haf.....

Outback Jack, What is the best method to find TDC on this engine? I found a few descriptions and am not sure which is the best one to follow? Haf

I pulled the air box/intake right out and that gave me heaps more room and placed her up on some ramps. I've put the intake manifold back on after reading Outback Jack's latest reply and I haven't replaced the gasket. If I fire her up and she runs like crap I'll know what the problem is. The new ignition coil is in place, I'm just going to mark the dizzy and TDC and pull her out to upgrade all it's components. Thanks again guys, beer o'çlock shortly I reckon, Cheers, Haf.

Hi Jack, I'll be doing it today as the car is in pieces. I'm going to go and grab some ramps and stands and approach it from underneath. Thanks for the info and help. Cheers, Haf.

Hey Guys, Newbie here and have searched the entire site as best as I could to try and find the answers I was looking for before I put up this post. I have a 1996 XH XR6 Ute which I am trying to service, especially the distributor and associated parts. How the bloody hell do you access the thing when it's hidden under the fuel injection system like that? ? WTF !? So far I have removed the high tension leads, distributor cap and rotor, can't access anything else, it's too cramped under there, I need to replace the ignition coil that is also under the EFI on the side of the block! So I started to remove the EFI by taking all the bolts from the inlet manifold out and I still can hardly move it out and it doesn't assist much in gaining any further access, so before I got the with it all I packed up and left everything until tomorrow hoping I would find some answers here. Do I need to remove the EFI to gain proper access to the distributor and ignition coil? If yes, how do I completely remove the EFI? If no, how do I do it? Thanks in advance guys........ Haf.....