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    AU 4.0L 1 - 6 miss.

    From your description, my guess would be the original coil pack shorted to ground, creating a massive increase in current. This high current, has likely damaged the 1/6 coil driver transistor, inside the ECU. From memory, the CMP sensor only signals the ECU to switch off a faulty coil, if the current is too low (ie open circuit no spark), to prevent excess emissions from unburnt fuel. I would remove the ECU, and have it tested/repaired by Logicar, Injectronics or similar vehicle ECU repairer. Someone handy with electronics, could also likely diagnose and replace the damaged coil driver transistor. https://fordforums.com.au/wsmpub/augx/Part 9-1.html
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    Australian Ford Bronco's

    Interesting! In some of the scenes, the F-truck has widened front wheels, but not the rear. Sounds like a 6cyl too!
  3. The XD/XE ones are copper and a narrow rectangle shape with threaded fittings, where as the XF-EB ones, are aluminum and square shaped with o-ring fittings. Being copper, the earlier evap cores would last forever, so probably didn't get replaced often? The later aluminum ones, corrode pinholes quite easily - as I've seen (and replaced) in at least one of my XF's. I had a look, and the XF-EB Condenser and Evap cores, are still available from Aircon Wholesalers. Around $200 each. TX valves are available for XD/XE, (about $70.00) as they cross to some trucks, but XF-EB TX valves may not be available. XD/XE and XF-XG receiver driers are still listed too - around $60-$70 each.
  4. The XD-XE evap and condenser cores, have been obsolete for 10-15yrs I think? Luckily the XF evaporator cores (in dash), cross over to the e-series as well. I didn't know about the XF/XG condenser cores though!
  5. Charles Goodyear filed his patent application for vulcanized rubber on February 24, 1844 (almost one hundred seventy-nine years ago today) Goodyear left school at age 12 to work in his father’s hardware store in Connecticut. At age 23 he married Clarissa Beecher and soon afterwards the couple moved to Philadelphia, where Goodyear opened a hardware store of his own. Goodyear was a competent merchant, but his passions were chemistry, materials science, and invention. In the late 1820s he became particularly fascinated with finding and improving practical applications for natural rubber (called India rubber). His experimentation would change the world, but Goodyear’s path to success would be challenging. In 1830, at age 29, Goodyear was suffering from health issues and his rubber experiments (which he had funded by borrowing) had not been successful. By the end of the year his business was bankrupt and he was thrown into debtor’s prison. In was an inauspicious beginning to his career as a scientist and inventor. The principal troubles with finding commercial applications for natural rubber was that the material was inelastic and was not durable, decomposing and becoming sticky depending on temperature. Goodyear was determined to find a chemical solution to overcome those issues, beginning his experiments while in jail. After numerous failures, his breakthrough came when he tried heating the rubber together with sulfur and other additives. In 1843 he wrote a friend, “I have invented a new process of hardening India rubber by means of sulphur and it is as much superior to the old method as the malleable iron is superior to cast iron. I have called it Vulcanization.” Goodyear filed his patent application for vulcanized rubber on February 24, 1844 (one hundred seventy-nine years ago today) and the patent was issued four months later. It is thanks to vulcanization that rubber can be used to make tires, shoe soles, hoses, and countless other items. It was one of the most profoundly important technological achievements of the 19th century. So, Charles Goodyear became wealthy as a result? Unfortunately, no. He continued to struggle financially for the rest of his life, embroiled in litigation with other inventors over the validity of his patent, preventing him from profiting from it. Meanwhile, his wife Clarissa contracted tuberculosis and much of the family’s income was devoted to her medical expenses and extensive travel in search of a cure. Clarissa died in 1848 at age 39, leaving six children, between the ages of 4 and 17. At age 54, while still struggling to defend his patents and commercialize his invention, Goodyear married 40-year-old Mary Starr (who had not previously been married) and the couple would go on to have two children together. It too was a happy marriage, but Goodyear was not destined to long enjoy it. Suffering the adverse effects of years of exposure to dangerous chemicals, Goodyear collapsed at a hotel in New York City on July 1, 1860, dying later that day. At the time of his death, he was 59 years old, penniless, and deeply in debt. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, founded in Akron, Ohio by Frank Seiberling nearly 40 years later, was named in honor of Charles Goodyear. Neither Charles Goodyear nor anyone in his family was connected with the company. Reflecting on Goodyear’s achievements, the historian Samuel Eliot Morrison wrote, “The story of Goodyear and his discovery of vulcanization is one of the most interesting and instructive in the history of science and industry.” But, as he added, “It is also an epic of human suffering and triumph, for Goodyear's life was one of almost continuous struggle against poverty and ill health.” Goodyear himself was philosophical about his failure to achieve financial success, writing that he was not disposed to complain that he had planted and others had gathered the fruit. “The advantages of a career in life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents, as is too often done. Man has just cause for regret when he sows and no one reaps.”
  6. Tbh, I'd be picky about Aircon jobs too. If the compressor front seal is leaking, that's $800 right there. Even replacing the compressor seal (if possible), won't see much change from $400 - remove, refurb, reinstall and regas - then find the next leak. OR more to the point - Damo and his bogan mate, rocks up in their $500 VN commodore on choppies - durrie in one hand, VB in the other - 'just want the $50 regas', and 'nah can't afford repairs, just the f'n regas mate, she'll be right'... 'only has to last the summer'. Then comes back and whinges, when the refrigerants leaked out in a week. (I have the tools to replace x-series and e-series falcon Sanden compressor bearings/seals, and it's fairly involved.)
  7. The cost will depend on how much work you can do, yourself. It's definitely doable, using either all second hand parts, or a mix of new and second hand. (can't get all parts new anymore) I'd probably budget around $2k in parts (with new compressor), or maybe $1,500 with a second hand compressor? A bit more, if good second hand hoses can't be sourced. If you're anywhere around Bayswater Vic, send me a message. I have the tools/skills at my workshop, to retrofit and/or refurb x-series aircon.
  8. Last I heard, that place or somewhere similar, botched a forum members A/C pretty good. They have an XF with an LS V8 conversion The shop made up their own Aircon lines using Oetiker clamps instead of proper hydraulic crimp sleeves - apparently causing one connection to blow off, within a couple minutes of running. @4D-XF is the vehicle owner, from memory. I might have a couple pics...
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    Crossflow - Heat riser hose from exhaust to intake / EGR

    Usually they have one clamp at the Air Cleaner end. I think that's the factory configuration?
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    Tall bloke vs Steering wheel

    The bench seat, in my Green XE wagon would not slide at all, when I first bought it. I found the seat rails were cracked, as you mentioned - which I reinforced via small welded gussets. Even with the gussets, it still never been perfect.
  11. Interesting to note the increased steering stop diameter on the caster bar ends - being an XG Outback, it's presumably to prevent larger tyres contacting the inner fender?
  12. San Marino Seat Cover

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    Tall bloke vs Steering wheel

    Good thing it's not an x-series ute or panelvan, as those have even less leg room! If it was a bench seat wagon you may have more luck, as those have a very squishy base. One tends to sink right into them. Short of a bench seat, modified seat rails, or a super tiny sports steering wheel, I can't imagine any other options. To my knowledge, adjustable steering column's only became available, in the XF Fairmont era, onwards.
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    show us your BEAM(headlight, not Jim Beam)

    Unless they're OEM Lucas inserts? Those are apparently worth $$$
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    XE S PAK seat material

    There's a guy on marketplace and other FB groups, (Adam I think his name is) who has obtained and hoarded stock, of old Ford/Holden seat fabrics. He charges a kings ransom for it apparently. Global Trim in Wodonga, may have reproduction (or old stock?) S-pack material in Chamios. Or try ringing around some old-school motor trimmers, who may have a roll still?
  16. From new, they were painted a semi-gloss black enamel. Possibly a dip-coat originally? Word of safety advice - I'd never run a polyurethane steering coupler under any circumstances. (as you've pictured) Poly tends to split and crumble with age, and they're not fibre reinforced either. IMO, they should not be offered for sale, in that application. I'd suggest to fit a new reinforced rubber steering coupler instead.
  17. There's a 2mb size limit per image, I believe.
  18. EZ185 and 187 are Polar and Glacier white respectively I believe. Fleet colour EZ186, will most likely be a white. It's not a Ford specific colour, but rather from a generic book of fleet colours, for use by any manufacturer.
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    AU Falcon ignition assembly

    After programming two new keys, or re-keying the replacement lock barrel... yes. From memory, AU's need two keys for programming. It won't accept just one key.
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    AU Falcon ignition assembly

    Depends if it's Smartlock or Smartshield? Can you swap over the original ign lock sensor, and the lock barrel?
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