Rayinsydney

ok, so I got the handle sorted, it now opens like a brand new door , but not fixed in the way you suggested.
the metal rod was slightly bent, so I slightly unbent it, and it made no difference, inside handle worked perfectly still, outside handle no go, I tried to make it as straight as i could, and it still didn't help.
So i googled something like 'falcon door mech adjustment' or similar, and a video popped up with a guy showing the same issue, he took the latch mech off and bodged a  screw to be glued right next to the metal pin to make the pin 'bigger', so i gave this a go using knead it, and it worked, its perfect.
The passenger rear door was similar , as in awkward to open, but if you were gentle, it always opened, so i did the same thing on it just to see if it wasn't a fluke figuring that its only Knead it so as strong as it is, you can always knock it off if its a fail so nothing to lose, and it worked, with almost no effort, both rear doors are opening perfectly.
Might be worth a try if anyones having door opening issues.
happy days.

ok, so I got the handle sorted, it now opens like a brand new door , but not fixed in the way you suggested.
the metal rod was slightly bent, so I slightly unbent it, and it made no difference, inside handle worked perfectly still, outside handle no go, I tried to make it as straight as i could, and it still didn't help.
So i googled something like 'falcon door mech adjustment' or similar, and a video popped up with a guy showing the same issue, he took the latch mech off and bodged a  screw to be glued right next to the metal pin to make the pin 'bigger', so i gave this a go using knead it, and it worked, its perfect.
The passenger rear door was similar , as in awkward to open, but if you were gentle, it always opened, so i did the same thing on it just to see if it wasn't a fluke figuring that its only Knead it so as strong as it is, you can always knock it off if its a fail so nothing to lose, and it worked, with almost no effort, both rear doors are opening perfectly.
Might be worth a try if anyones having door opening issues.
happy days.

hello, 
 
Final update on this thread,  I picked the car up yesterday, all is good and runs like a dream.
the mechanic checked all systems, fuel , ignition etc and pulled the re-built carb apart again and went though that, put it back together and it runs perfectly, all that he assumes is somewhere along the way when he did the work earlier in the year, he stuffed something up and it led to the issues listed above, so he put his hand up at least and didn't charge a thing, even topped up the aircon at the same time. 
So while it has'nt answered why the car played up , why it had petrol in the oil etc, it has for now been fixed and will get a good run tomorrow.
 
in saying that, cheers for all the pointers, I know what to check out next time in case it gets grumpy again, for now, i'll drive it

cheers, I'll check the plugs etc and report back, 

so,  its still no go, so my mechanic is going to come up one night and have a look ( he's done  a heap of work on this car so knows it well ) , its a mystery but I'll let you all know the results.
 
Fingers crossed, and thanks for your suggestions.

so,  its still no go, so my mechanic is going to come up one night and have a look ( he's done  a heap of work on this car so knows it well ) , its a mystery but I'll let you all know the results.
 
Fingers crossed, and thanks for your suggestions.

so,  its still no go, so my mechanic is going to come up one night and have a look ( he's done  a heap of work on this car so knows it well ) , its a mystery but I'll let you all know the results.
 
Fingers crossed, and thanks for your suggestions.

Good shout that, I'll give that a go as next step, 
cheers, 
Ray

if it fires with a spray of something in the carby top(even WD would do it etc) then it's fuel supply issue. 
can be many causes, check the fuel hoses don't have cracks in them, sucking air instead of fuel is something i've seen a few times on XD to XFs and that was 15yrs ago. 
 

cheers for the suggestions, a new battery has gone in, car cranks over fine now, but that's all it does, crank.
 
Its got spark to the cylinders, but now seems not to be getting fuel, so that's my next mystery.

they are Kings Lows , the thing drives fine, just quite crashy over potholes etc

Cheers for that, front springs are new Kings, I'll have  a look on Ebay for the shocks then,  much appreciated.

My brothers XE Wagon has had the seat rails redrilled to mount the seat further back,

The way i did the tall bloke thing with steering wheel thing is buy a set of scheel esp seats and fit them without the metal racks only cost you 5grand 😬it did work tho.

An update , last night i took out the spacers from under the seat, this has definitely made a difference, as in the actual seating position when in is fine, and slightly easier to get in and out due to a bit of an increase in the gap between wheel and seat, so a win there.
The seat put up a fight to get out, and now seems to not slide back and forth so something else to look at,  the seat rails have some 'punches' that almost look like they are pilot holes to drill and tap and re-locate the rails backwards for more travel, so once the power steering gets put in soon, I'll check that out and see if it makes a difference.
 
With the extra gap I now have, I think that the PS install will make the flailing of arms much less effort, so may be all i need to do to get my wife driving it as well.
 
Will update when done, 
 
cheers, 
 
Ray.

Spoke to my upholsterer on Friday who was doing a headlining for another of my cars, he reckons it’s pretty easy to drop the seat height , by taking foam out, also the rails can be modded with the correct engineering apparently, so it looks like a good project to sort out!

Spoke to my upholsterer on Friday who was doing a headlining for another of my cars, he reckons it’s pretty easy to drop the seat height , by taking foam out, also the rails can be modded with the correct engineering apparently, so it looks like a good project to sort out!