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  2. Posted

    Well you'd never believe my luck, I was cruising around on the ozfalcon facebook page and Jake posted a picture of my old half 'cage' for sale!! He's in Perth and that makes things a little more difficult but he's sorting it out and I'll have it back soon! FUCK YEAH!!! That cage has been from Adelaide to Melbourne to Canberra to WaggaWagga to Perth and now back to Melbourne, go you good thing! 

     

    If anyone in Perth can help out with organising shipping do please PM me, I'm not sure Jake thought he'd be organising interstate shipping  (at my expense of course) for the item when he posted it, but he's being a good sport :D

     

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    If you suspect it's the linages hit it with a can of lubricant, toploader did the same a few years back and thought it was toast until someone gave me the tip that they heat up them old boxes and dry themselfs out, ** don't read into that too much, no double meaning there haha **

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    I brought my stuff from Charles in act . It was simple but had massive travel up and down . Air rides not worth it IMO and at the end of the day you can't drive bags low. And who wants to drive around high . I removed the bags went back to springs went lower than I did with bags in the back . But all the time. I could make another kit like mine was if I had interest.

     

    Oh so your the bloke that scored Charlies kit. Yeah I've been torn on the idea for a while, I don't want to drive around at any different height that it is right now, just when its parked I'd like to slam it. What was the lowest that you could get yours when parked with no air?

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    Hi guys,

     

    I'm looking to pick up some Convo Pros and rubber to suit in the near future, I've just about done my nut thinking about sizes and below is where my head is at right now, or it was until I saw a photo of that combo (read on)

     

    * For the front 15 x 6 with 205/60 tyres

    * For the rear 15 x 9 with 275/60 tyres

     

     

    Judge has a set for sale at the moment that is spot on (http://www.xfalcon.com/forums/index.php?/topic/40309-ford-pre-au-convo-pros-with-275-mickey-thompson-street-slicks/) but the rears look so much larger than the fronts, distractingly so. I know the backs are Mickeys so they will look a little different. My calculations say that the diameter should only about 8.4cm different between the front and back, but it looks so much larger than that, it might well be only 8cm but it appears more.

     

    What do you think about mixing and matching profiles to try to get them to look the same? a 275/50 would only be 2.9cm difference, under half the original difference from the 275/60. It sounds like a good idea but I feel like I'm breaking some sort of unspoken rule of selecting rubber.

     

    Thoughts?

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    To be honest man, if you want to put a cage in there for looks dont waste your time..

     

    The build quality will be shit and in the event of a collision (touch wood) the thing will break and hurt who ever is in the car

     

    Im not interested in the functionality of it, really not interested at all, and I'm not kidding myself that it'll save me in any event err... well anything! Its just an aesthetic thing, wish I could find photos from back in the day to explain it, that one above isn't really doing the idea justice.. grrr

     

    That aside, know anyone that could bend some fat tube? and do a tidy bit of welding?

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    I used to have a sort of half cage in my XE, struggling to find pictures but it was a hoop behind the driver seat with plates where it meets the floor and runners to the rear shelf and plates on the ends also bolted through the shelf. It was all looks, but its a good look, and was never meant to be functional. It was bolted in the car when I bought it and I sold it off a few years later so now I'm looking for someone to knock one up for me again. 

     

    Does anyone have a cage guy that would slum it for a more looks than functional gig? Know what it might cost?

     

    I was looking through ebay for something that was close and this is a very piss poor example but its basically the same thing but much lighter gauge material

     

     

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    ok just a quick update on this i have wet and dried the panel and door down brand new bucket and wet and dry and just sprayed them with etch primer and i will try again.

     

    Good luck dude, gotta say the way you asked for advice and took on board what the guys said was great! That's how a forum should work, no keyboard warrior shit, hope it all works out for you!

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    Mite be time to get some pics of your car up including the diff assembly bro...

     

    Shame I hope it all works out for you and don't want any bad shit to come from it for you.

    All good mate.

     

    Back on topic I have emailed a bunch of suppliers a few months back and never got a peep so I shot another email to the guys at Air Ride, will see how we go.

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    I hope I dont appear to be condescending, but in Sedans, only XD came out with Leafs springs, so it isn't an XE.

    As Steve says, it might just be XD with XE front.

    Check you ID tags in the enginebay, it should say.

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    I cant help but think the worst when I see this, You dont know the history, You dont know that only XDs have leaf springs. I really hope someone hasn't done you over and sold you something plated wrong, unplated or reshelled a stat writeoff.

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    Check the plates and let us know

     

     

    Chaise

     

    Plates in the bay say '82 XE Falcon. I've owned the car for 10+ years now so whatever it is it doesn't bother me. I've run the numbers through the online databases and it says nothing too out of the ordinary so don't think its a reshell, but what evs. The only hint that something might be odd is (other than leaf rear) that I purchased what I believed to be an XE front lip and it's about 2inches too long for the front spoiler so it had me wondering for a while now. I thought XE's and XD's had the same front dimensions.. thoughts?

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    From reading what mcfly linked there you need to install a 4link or notch the rails to get it sitting on the sills. But sit it on it's sills I will **shakes fist at the sky** Mine is an XE but its got disc brake leaf, go figure, not entirely sure on the history of the car before I got it, I think it's a "bits-a".

  20. Posted

    Hey guys, I've been struggling with low voltage issues for a while now, the alternator is brand new and seems to be doing the right thing but if I'm at a set of lights with the thermos on, indicator on and the foot on the brake then it's only a matter of time until it turns off. It starts straight back up so I don't believe it to be a battery problem (and its a new boat battery to, big sucker). Not sure if its that same problem but over 100km/h it sometimes stumbles and seems to suffer the same issue, it'll cut out but will fire straight back up, WTF?

     

    I know people say "hmm thermos, theres your problem, go with a clutch fan" aside from the fact that when the blower goes on that wont fly, I have an old magna that has thermos, I can run at night with EVERYTHING on and it doesn't miss a beat, so something is wrong here, where to start? Or is this one of those drive it to an auto elec and just pay to get it sorted moments?

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