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Ogre's 1984 Ford XE S pac Falcon


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  • 2 weeks later...

Not really an update but now have it in Rotorua.

 

The drive back from Palmerston North on sunday was lush. Man this things drives well and suprisingly not to bad on fuel.

 

Plans at this stage?

 

Fix this. Clutch cable mount is cracked, pretty sure this happens to 100% of manuel falcons.

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Reconnect the heater lines, yet to know why its been disconnected. Hoping its not a busted heater core, which it more than likely is.

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Clean this up and see why its leaking. Mite jjust get a whole new unit. They are cheap enough. loving the fact that i can just get everything new at reasanable prices. Couldnt get shit for the lancer.

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Also, needs some slam. I have been looking at spring options and there are a number, but they all sound like they fuck with the ride quality. I wonna keep the thing the same as it is now, its pretty firm, but not bouncy or anything so im thinking of getting a set of standard springs and choppy chop chop and see how it goes.

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Got a few things done, but not as much as i wanted to this weekend, Revoved drivers seat to fix the rails as it was hell hard to move seat. It took me HOURS. What a prick of a job.

 

Remade the clutch cable bracket, The original is about 1.2mm steel, new one is 4mm, so should be alot stronger. Clutch is alot smoother now, found the clutch cable was fouling with the inside of the tube and had worn the tube away due the the angle changing from being cracked. Took a few trials to get the angle right on the new one. So much better to drive now.

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Also, added a Swap Meat 2013 sticker, as the drunken board meeting was its conception.

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And

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Fixed the heater today. not sure why it had been disconnected as it was just a dodgy heater tap most likely from lack of use.

Im guessing it was stuck on and the owner before me decided it was just easier to disconnect than have a functioning heater.

 

Weird.

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^Yeah ok, turns out the heater was leaking, took 2 weeks till it spewed its guts on the mrs leg while giving it abit of a hoon...leaking heater core that is.

 

Have fixed more things on this:

 

Replaced most of the rear bushes with nolothane.

Installed a new head unit, Alpine CDA-9887 andspeakers.

Fixed a bunch of elctrical issues. One was that the front driving lights wouldnt go. Turned out to be earthed to the plastic bumper. Pretty lol.

 

Lastly, picked up some steel wheels for the rear. 14" ROH centres welded into stepped 15" bands from Lee. They are 10" wide, but there is still a fair bit of rrom left. could run 12" but most of the increase would be on the back spacing, so not much gain to dish anyway.

Now i just need to work out what to do on the front. May be able to fit 8" in the front. Theres not a hell of a alot of room though. Just need to keep an eye out for the some wheels with a similar centre, It looks like they never came out in 15" so will probably have to re-band some with stepped 15". Mite just roll 14s on the front for abit, see what its like.

 

Wheels:

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Slight little update on the old girl.

 

Have been enjoying alot of driving in it. So sweet for long distance driving. Covered over 1800km for the South Island OS Nats.

Not a single issue.

 

I was getting around 11L/100km which im pretty happy about. 

That was with at least 3 passengers and boot load of gear for 90% of the time.

Removing the EGR and some of the emissions crap has made it better on fuel, also drives nicer, idles better etc.

 

Seeing as whenever im driving this thing it seems its full of passengers and gear, i was getting alittle tired of riding the pump stops in the rear. There is a simple modification to increase the rear travel.

Simply, its just increasing the tower top hats, known over in Ozzy as "Megatowers". Pretty much just cut and shut abit of tube in there to make them longer, thus increasing the travel.

 

I used a bit of 75mm long 100x4mm tube, took about an hour to weld, clean up and paint, Not bad.Took it for a good drive out to one of the lakes today, roads pretty bumpy, passengers etc and it was smooooth as. Happy. Doing this also means i can achieve a shit load more slam if need be.

 

Before and after.

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Fitted:

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Have a similar idea for the fronts, but i want to make them so they dont look like all the other shitty ones ive seen. Want to keep things looking stock as possible.

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Well, bit of an update.

 

Ive done a few things to the coon, pretty much destroyed the exhaust on the way back from Cams party in Feilding the other week. Welded up the holes in the mufflers. Looks horrible but no leaks. Will be all good for now.

 

Will be trying some air adjustable shocks in the rear to try rectify the issues with it getting so low with passengers. Its only really become an issue after installing a sub and amp in the boot.

 

So...my mission for today was to rebuild the door hinges. Ive already replaced the drivers door handle after that decided to disintegrate. These doors are hell heavy and the hinge design is pretty poo. You end up having to lift the door with the handle to get it off the jam. hence the reputation of door handle breaking on these things.

 

So, i had these turn up from Ozz, took for freaking ever. But YAY, finally.

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Old hinge disassembled

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At first i thaught that the old hinges were pretty good, looked ok and only had a small about of play, but then after getting the old bushes out. They where knackered.

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Hinges with new pins and bushes

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Removed the gaurds to get at the hinges better, also wanted to check for any rust as its a common area for these. no rust. Thats a bonus.

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While i had the doors off i noticed the drivers door had started to crack around where it bolts to the door, Was no point in leaving it so got to work at fixing. Cleaned up and welded the crack, then also added a plate over top as well. Should be alot better. Twice as thick now. Seen a few guys in Australia repairing these like this, but they do an ugly job, but it seems to work.

 

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Final product. Has turned out ok.

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Another small update.

 

Did a bunch of the usual servicing this weekend. Its had a leak in the rocker cover for ages, was pretty bad really but i just couldn't be arsed doing it. having to take all the intake manifold off etc is never fun. 

 

It started to running a little rough the last week, so decided to jump in and do it, as well as new plugs and all that.

 

This was the offending area of the cover here, hard to see but it was leaking bad, and the reason for the engine running rough was because the spark plug holes where so full of oil they where shorting out. Wow.

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So off came all the vacuum lines, plenum and a few other bits. 

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Ok, so grabbed my allen key to start undoing the rocker cover bolts. Lose as shit bolts all along one side and the front. i would say that out of the 8 or so bolts, 2 of them where barely finger tight, the rest were lose by a good 5 or so threads and one was missing. Not surprised if it has rattled out. Explains the leak huh?

 

Checked all the rockers etc, everything looked nice. Will be awhile before im back in there fingers crossed.

 

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New rocker gasket, intake gasket and it was just a reversal of the disassembly process.

 

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Followed promptly by a good drive and inspection afterwards. no leaks, and idles a lot better. Has much better vacuum at idle. These things are bad with running rough with even the slightest vacuum leak.

 

Small things sometimes make all the difference. Pretty happy.

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