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Just to confuse abit more, I thought EA to ED had a 15'' rim as the 14'' doesn't clear the rear brake caliper?

They clear, think of all the later E series diffs that are being transplanted now Steve.

Heather has an ED diff and still runs Spac's

Ok, remembered to take some pics and upload them to photobucket (I love my new phone).

The whole lower radiator support is there to replace the original lower tie bar, radius rod mounts are the same as XE.

Learn something new every day

Even if you left in the XG lower radiator support panel you'd be able to weld in the replacement XE radius rod mounts (k frame I think you're talking about) as they're still the same part in the same place. I think even the lower tie bar is the same, it just doesn't have those poxy mounts for the old copper radiator.

When Ford dropped in the 4lt they made a huge

plate that was mig welded in over the top of the existing structure. I'll grab some pics of it all from the empty XG Van engine bay tomorrow and endeavour to post them up asap.

Thats all true glenn, but he has an XG panelvan and his question was if they are the same as XE... which they are not.

Read that question again Clint. He's after the crossmember and suspension hats to remedy the cracking in the suspension towers, looking at the two XG Vans in my driveway at the moment they're a direct replacement.

XH is a shell all on its own

XD-E-F rails, towers, inner fenders and radiator support panels are all the same bar some obvious pressings and holes that are different between model changes.

XH has a different front end completely. From the firewall forward to be exact.

Whirla, cut the XE crossmember and suspension hats out and weld them into your van no problems.

Everglade over a dark base?

I painted a V8 TC Corty wagon many years ago and it turned out almost the same as Polynesian Green.

Hahaha I only assumed painter since your reply was so intelligent and informative,

This coming from the man who still says 'free' for the number 3 lol

You have to remember that most TMU/TOG cops now are my age (42) and grew up around this era of cars and probably knew at least one person who owned an XC. Out of my group of mates there were 3 that had owned an XC at any one time, 1 of them is now a Sergeant

As for sales people, it's a rare deal to find someone who knows something about older cars working at Repco now, sales experience is the number one prerequisite now. Steve McQueen is one of those rare deals.

I had a mate who had over 15yrs wrecker experience and has forgotten more about cars than I know, yet was passed up for a job when the Geelong Super Thief Auto store opened because he didn't have the pretty boy sales look about him and didn't have enough sales experience. WTF!

I asked one young bloke in Geelong for some XE door handles and they weren't in stock on the computer, so I asked him for TE Cortina handles and they had 2 full sets, I told him I'd take both sets and put one set in my XE, he flat out refused to sell them to me because the computer told him they were different part numbers so they were different door handles. It was only after his manager stepped in as I was giving the kid what for that he capitulated and shut his smart arse mouth.

Most cops won't even notice the difference with a ohc 6 in the XC engine bay.

Gone are the days when most traffic management unit cops are clueless when it comes to what engines should be in a certain car. Vic police figured out ages ago that employing guys who are into cars was beneficial to collecting more fines.

Dash out Nath

Your panel beater is lazy, easy enough to fix, all it takes is a bit of time and energy.

I've fixed one that had been deliberately bent into a Z and twisted like a corkscrew.

Not really, find a good one and get it repaired if it needs it.

The shape of them is a pain in the arse to get right when you try to make them from scratch.

Just need to keep looking for a good one, the xf ones fit too i think

They do fit, but you have to drill holes on the ends and make a bracket for the centre mount.

Check post #7 Dave, that's the bit I had to remove at request of Infrastructure Australia.

CLICK

It had information direct from the IA website and from the email I sent to them.

Don't be surprised if there is a polite email from a Gov't employee asking for the Australian based information in this thread to be removed. Dave, if you have a look at the website you got the VSB14 information from it says clearly that none of it can be reproduced in any way shape or form without written permission.

How do I know this, I did the same thing in a thread on xfalc a few years ago. I posted information from an email I sent and also information from the same site you got your VSB14 info from and was politely asked to remove it, under threat of possible prosecution.

As the thread title suggests lads and ladies, I'm after information on what the difference is between 6cyl and V8 gauge clusters.

We all know to look for the sticker on the back that says whether or not it is 6cyl or V8. Sometimes that sticker is long gone unfortunately, so what I'm after is the circuit board differences between the two.

I have a 6cyl cluster here that has the following etched into the boards between the Temp & Alt gauges:

VDO Australia

34630 - BOARD

23396 - ASSY

Is this the same code for all the PCB's or does it change with the V8 cluster? (Fairlane clusters will obviously be different)

I seem to remember a drunken discussion about the S Pac clusters (possibly when I was in Wagga Wagga) about the only differences being in some of the resistors being a different value.

Any help on this topic would be fantastic as I know some of us would like to be able to identify a V8 cluster from a 6cyl one at a glance.

Cheers.

Glenn.