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ok this is how i picked it up,assembled short motor,balanced,ol.m8's oil mod.

my internet is fixed so when I get home from work I will post a few pics from basic bottom end to what I've done in the last few days

I'm a fan of that

same as last clevo the water pump bolts I had to get,its freezing here I couldn't help myself I fitted the oil pump and pick up to the crossy .

also noticed the water pump pulley bolts are a different thread to the ones I have here ? Xe and xf don't fit why would they do that ?

the engine is on the stand and just my luck da cookin dodo internet is down so I'm using the phone will post pics on wed hopefully when they fix it

Thanks for that advice,what about with just a single thermo,i guess i wont no until its in position,or just order the normal non air con one ?

i wonder if ol.m8 at the machine shop could widen the 7 inch rims to 8 or 8 1/2 like some have done to their snowflakes,he has all the cutting equipment,and welding is his specialty,after i finish paying him for the crossy i might ask does he wanna take it on ?

A mate just stopped by and donated a set of 15x7 gold performance wheels ,im stoked cause most of these are of the 14'' size.

also bought the a/c type fan fitting cause i was gunna use the xf plastic clutch fan but deans video convinced me to go a large single thermo or EL set up.i still should be able to use this waterpump as there is no fan going on it at all.

yeah i jumped in quickly when ordering stuff some time ago and got this one

i found the stamped steel alt bracket was in another box yee haa.

this bitch is born to run

yeah with the amount of cash i have already spent on it i may as well just go all out and get the aussie speed headers,and some sort of 3 inch single or dual like sly's ute,as i probly wont have it registed maybe a shortend exhaust allthou i did have a mad max intercepter style zoomies out the right hand sill just b4 the wheel arch but with a six cyl maybe only 3 pipes out one side or the aussie speed headers are actualy semi finished and 2 piece out let i think so that opens the door for 3 pipes out each side,ive been dreaming of this for a while and would look really crazy

yeah i thought maybe 4 or 5hp

The crossy is finished i will be picking it up on monday afo,then onto the stand to start the final assembly,the single rail is also done,ol.m8 did the pushrod length and it turned out at 9.800 which i thought was weird cause the std length was 9.6,i asked him how is that possible after skimming the head and block its a longer pushrod,he said the adj top end will come out much different to the stamped steel bolt on rockers,i would never have thought of that so im glad he did it,anyway plenty to do next week

seems many are using a el fan set up

Me too I neeed a thermo

i suppose some sought of electric fan will have to go on,i will sought that out later on .

another bin job lol

nah i wanted the plastic fan

and im ditching the idea of the clutch fan after deans video ,i have been struggling with this thing for weeks trying to get it apart without breaking it,if you look close some m/f has welded it to the nut so no way of coming off

i cleaned and painted the bigger bracket.

i just watched that video ,never new they ate that much power,the shroud really only comes into play at idle in traffic i think to really suck that air out,cheers dean i really enjoyed that.