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Fuck I'm in love! That is soooo sweet!

So thought about selling it, couldnt do it! Need to pull finger and start getting some parts sorted out so i can upgrade the brakes,

Ok so i had toyed with the idea of selling this, however i had a minor mishap involving the vehicle jumping out of park and into reverse whilst opening the garage door, and it took off down the door, clipped a couple of trees and then stopped in a couple shrubs/small trees, this resulted in both drivers side doors getting dented where the handles clipped the trees, some grazing on the r/r quarter panel, and a slightly out of shape rear bumper, Luckily insurance company (classic cover) was more than helpful, and part of my policy allowed me to choose my own repairer, the guy i wouldve preferred to use (Craig Thompson, Mooney Brothers Panelbeaters, Avid old car lover) has recently had his workshop bought by the Council to allow for road developement, so was unable to do the repairs, So i used the company we use through work, this however is not a bad thing, Greenpark Panel and Paint. Mike the owner is a bit of an old car nut, and owns "EZPEEL" a Big Black 10sec Ford Galaxie, needless to say the repair is faultless, and im super stoked with the repair, (as usual excuse the photos, Iphone 3 not the best for taking photos): However getting the car back has done away with any ideas of selling it During the time the car was away being repaired, My Wife and I bought a new house and moved in, and luckily for me ive gone from a 18ish Sq/m shed to a 42sq/m shed, so now have plenty of room to play: Since moving to the new house and getting the car home ive only done a couple of little things, firstly ive reset the angle of the float on the fuel sender so hopefully its a bit more accurate now, Secondly ive traced the wiring to the factory temp gauge and found that the gauge on the dash actually works fine, so I plan on removing the aftermarket gauge (cant actually see it whilst driving any way) and run the factory one, all I need is a temp sender and im away! Anyway sorry for the verbal overload, but im up to date now hahaha

Nice coon man! Looks like a good deal for the price you paid! Let us know how you get on with the b front brakes (I'm going to be doing this to my XP wagon soon) Ben

Get a big fuck off cresent, that will do the job, or make a tool, grab a 3/8 drive socket, turn it upside down, and weld it to a long bar/piece of flat metal, that should work a treat

That sounds like a good idea, an a perfect use for the tailgate haha

Sweet so gave the wagon some looooving. Got a clean sheet wof, a years rego and then gave her some slam! 55mm drop King springs in the front, 2.5" blocks in the rear, rides mint no knocks bangs or clunks, couldn't be happier with it, just needs a wheel alignment, sort my sounds then it's off to beach hop we go!

Well it took a bit longer than expected to get my shit sorted, Big cheers to Manu, for hooking me up with the front shock spacers, went 2" in front and about 2.5" in the rear, am stoked how the car looks now, Roll on BEACH HOP!!!! And the best thing is, the ride is still mint!

Yeah I've got a set of Kingspring superlows coming for the front. And the rear I'm gonna put 2" blocks and maybe pull a leaf coz it does have a bit of rake going on. Cheers for the heads up, ill keep an eye on dshaft clearance when I do it.

Cheers guys, am just doing little bits here and pieces to personalise it aye

Sweet F A update, priced up my lowering stuff, superlow kings for the front (probably minus a coil.....or 2) and a 2" block kit for the rear (probably minus a leaf aswell) and will still have enough change from 300 notes to buy a couple of boxes of booze to drink while i do the work.

Awesome man thats appreciated, love the look of your wagon, quick question, before you put the hydraulics in how low did you lower it, and how did it ride,

Yeah 4 stud, 4 drum, unassisted brakes, is quite an experiance haha

Yeah ive seen Manu's one, is effing sick, yeah am looking into lowering at the moment, gonna start with 3" in front and 4" in rear, had it on the hoist at work today and there is shitloads of room in the gaurds for doing it,

im not sure if he was a plumber but i bought it from a guy in wellington, he wanted to focus on his 48 Chevy truck, I picked it up mid november, very happy with it, the only other 6 cylinder XL/M/P wagons on trade me were and are nearly double the price i paid for this, also came with some spare side trims but they are from an XM wagon, so am gonna see what condition they are in, and if they are complete and onsell them probably

So ive been doing a few things to my XP wagon since i posted up on the introduction thread, and figured all though im not doing much to it at the moment, it would be good to start a thread and slowly potter away as i do the little bits and pieces so heres the beast. so i started out first by sorting the Exhaust leak, turns out old matey i bought the car from figured he didnt need an exhaust manifold gasket so just used maniseal, so went to my parts guy $8.12 later new exhaust gasket, half an hours work and hey presto i now have a super quiet car, next on the list was the non functioning fuel gauge, firstly i checked that the gauge itself still operated by removing the wire from the sender and connecting it straight to earth, and boom it shot to full, so i removed the sender unit and found the float full of fuel and acting more like a sinker, so being the Mcgyver kinda guy, i rumbled around in the shed and found an old unused Cork sanding block, cut a section off and speared it onto the float arm, pluged it back in to the wiring, and checked that the gauge moved in relation to the arm, which it did so i refitted the sender unit......however its miles off accurate (when the tank is full it reads half, and when its half full it reads empty, and when its empty i dont know....not ideal) so as soon as i can get to my parts guy and get some cork casket sheet to make a new gasket for the tank sender i will remove it again and tweak the arm, then came the cooling system, the week before Kumeu i decided i wanted to get the cooling system sorted (long ques in and out of the event and climbing temps over 104degC is not my idea of a fun time), so i ripped out the radiator, water pump and thermotstat, Pump and thermostat were mint so i refitted them, the radiator went off to Grant at Pakuranga radiators (top bloke, cant reccomend him enough) only to find out that it was 25% solid blocked, couldnt even get the cleaning rod through it kinda blocked, so i figured that was the end of my chance to take the falcon to Kumeu, However like i said Grant is a super top bloke who just happened to have a spare radiator lying around that i could have, LEGEND!! only thing was it was a manual trans radiator that had no provision for a trans cooler, again luck played a hand here, but as i was fitting the radiator up my neighbour popped his head over the fence to see what i was up to, as luck would have it he had recently upgraded the cooling system in his 406cui 6/71 blown 72 SS camaro to an Aussie desert cooler system and happened to have a Craig Davies Trans Cooler from his old cooling setup that i could have, So got everthing installed crusisng on the road saw temps of around 82degC and queing only saw 94degC max, so Super stoked to have an awesomely functioning cooling system, that brings me to Todays efforts: in preperation for beach hop, i want to personalise the look of the car a bit more to my tastes, So i rang Barry the Whitewall man, again another bloke i cant reccomend highly enough. and got him to come put some 1" whitewalls onto my existing tyres, and finally to satisfy and reward you for all that reading one more photo (bearing in mind that the above photos were taken on a Proper digital SLR camera, and the following one on my Iphone) So before beach hop i want to install a stealth stereo so i can have some sounds to cruise to, and if i can wrangle the $$$ i want to lower it too, I still need to sort out seatbelts for the back for the child seat, but then its mainly cosmetic stuff (old school roof rack, external windscreen visor, maybe spats) then come winter ill look at more mechanical upgrades, brakes, de-loom and paint engine bay, rattle can rebuild of engine, and possibly extractors and send the head off for hardened valve seats (very $$ dependant) Discuss: http://www.oldschool.co.nz//phpbb/viewt ... 18&t=31871

Build thread is here: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=31872 Anywho, im on the lookout for a Roof rack, and external windcreen visor for my XP wagon, and yes i know it needs Plenty of low, am thinking 4" in the rear and 3" in the front,