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spewing i sold that car, only needed a replacement engine in the end.. had to move, and no mates were keen to take it on even for parts amazingly.
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That interior looks nice, with the EB Ghia seats -
the odo gears often died in the original clusters,(also wasn't hard to swap in another or even reset the kms) you can not really trust them entirely, the best gauge for Kms is often how worn the carpet/mat, steering wheel and seat and arm rests/console lid etc. (assuming they haven't been changed also)
My XF ute had 300,000kms on it, but the interior and cluster wasn't reflecting that, because none of it was original.
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Been working on my AU last couple of weekends got the auto out last Saturday & got my brother to come over & help put the Manual in Sunday. Now just need to cut down brake pedal, get tailshaft shortened & fit it, reinstall starter motor & wires, reinstall extractors & fit to exhaust, modify wiring loom, fit & adjust clutch cable (when engine starts) & get a new boot & proper AU gear knob cos the boot supplied with the conversion is shit & the gear knob i believe is from XF. Will be taking tomorrow off work to try to get most of the rest done Sent from my SM-A057F using Tapatalk -
I use Penrite HPR 30 20W-60, it controls oil consumption well. I add around a 100mls of Lucas Heavy Duty oil stabiliser if it's summer time, and if I do a change in winter, I will wait till the weather warms up a bit before adding it... I have an "S"pack dash, but the one thing I wanted it for was the rev counter, and that was the only thing that didn't work! Apparently dry solder joints are common issues for these types of problems... So i put the original back in, and haven't got around to fixing it... -
The original dash only had 140k on it but it ate a cam so Im thinking that has something to do with it, it was putting the light out with the original dash but the gauge is flashing when idling in gear. Im gonna do an oil change on it and chuck some 20w60 in it to see if that helps -
yeah i'd expected unless there's a computer thingy that would light a dash light from a low pressure reading in the extra panel, it wouldn't have had an oil pressure "manifold" for the sender AND switch on the engine.. I've seen enough engines to know they only come with one or the other.
you could put a T piece fitting in the block and run both,
you also shouldn't be too worried if the oil pressure is on the low side with an engine with close to 300,000kms, I've had them idle with the light flickering or the gauge reading low on several clapped out crossflows, they don't die, they will more than likely easily do another 100,000ks without oil issues.. when they are worn out they usually wipe a lifter lobe or just burn a heap of oil from either rings, glazed bores or worn valve guides etc. (they very rarely failed to run, i fitted a second hand lifter to one of My engines every few months from a wiped out cam lobe before eventually swapping the engine. doing about 800km per week at the time.)
if the gauges reads enough pressure not to flash, or the switch type put the light out, good enough was good enough for a standard daily car. -
Got a sender off ebay that seems to work but my oil pressure situation doesnt look too good so Ill be hooking back up the mechanical gauge to get a better look. I cant figure how the factory light would have been wired with the sender so it must have just omitted it for the ghia aswell.
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you just need an oil sender from a ZL fairlane or S pack XF or even the XE s pack/ghia oil sender will work,
EA to ED (extinct basically will also work but are slightly different range, i can't remember if they read higher or lower oil pressure by a small amount but it's negligable)
there was no oil light on S pack, but possibly Fairlane ZL or LTD FE may have had some extrapolated thing in the trip computer extra gauge on the dash (were 2 types, one was just a bunch of lights, the other a trip computer.. won't fit in a standard dash though..
you could probably tap into one of the unused light positions on the fairlane cluster, i can't remember what they had.. radiator low level was one of them, use that as an oil light spot if you wanted to keep the on/off oil light. may be others also (shine a torch in the globe holders and see what lights up) -
Well shit, got the dash in and when its hot it starts flashing and to top it all off I had to pull the oil pressure light as due to the new sender it wont go out and messes with the readings. Anyone with one of these clusters or a car that came with one know if they came with an oil pressure light? Maybe it was omitted due to the gauge
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