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Mate - Nice launch for an auto really... Good effort. Did the shift kit escape your attentions (mine really slams into second and sqwarks tires if you do it up a hill)...
And that's with two spare doors, a real full toolbox and some other stuff in the back... With nothing in the back it's about the same but I reckon you loose a bit more going up hills. Much safer with loads in it.. Slows me down and keeps the back firmly attached to the hard stuff... Is the F-Ugly sister a real horny biatch under that plain Jane exterior? Those mags on her have the impression of black, horn rimmed SPECTACLES! |
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Yeah! Thanx Fiend, It was a slightly down hill run from where we were taking off as well. But no shift kit for the lane mate, I have one in the EBII and I really don't like the way they rev out and slam the next gear.....can't be good in the long run.
All I can say on your last comment is WTF 
I was referring to how bad the lane on ebay looked without colourcoded bumpers and door handles and that rear wing is just hideous  Other than that, it has potential and looks pretty tidy......pity he's dreaming on the asking price 
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Give me a yell when you are keen to chuck the 3.45s in Mick. That and the underdrives will get your LWB up and running real good. After that, get some GT40P heads and a good auto friendly cam and it will really wake her up!!
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Slowly getting there Banarcus.
I picked up my ef thermo's today from Mr BuNtEr & met Matt (Trick Flow EL) and received my new set of underdrives (nice bloke) and then headed back home with my goodies. Didn't get to play though as I was on a tight schedule and had to be back in Newie by 3:30 to go to the inlaws for the exchanging of gifts (bloody Xmas). Also missed out on a trip to the playground (pick'n'payless) with BenJ and the boys. He called just as I was leaving Sydney so I'll have to take a rain check on that trip boys. I made it home with 15 minutes to spare
Hopefully I'll get a chance to start pulling the old clutchie out tommorow and throw the thermo's in. Have to wait till I get the water pump pulley machined before I throw the underdrives on. It's progress...... 
Oh! and yes the 3:45 does need to get going....i'll have to start the hunt for a set of upper trailing arms from an EF/EL before it can go in. If anybody has a spare set lying around, drop me a line 
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OK! Who said fitting thermo's was easy.........f**k things are lucky to be still alive
The mob from davies craig didn't help matters either, After getting everything all wired up and fitted, I fired up the Lane to let it get to temp and test the thermo switch........nothing Checked everything again in case I stuffed something up......found the friggin relay loom was all screwed up, i.e. red and blue (Pins 30 and 87 on the relay) were reversed, as was green and black (pins 86 & 85). Pulled the loom apart and corrected that and still nothing  Thought I'd check the fuse holder in the red cable only to find no fuse........WTF 
After I got all that sorted, it all worked electrically, but then found the top hose where the temp probe goes was leaking....bad. Couldn't stop it with changing the position of the hose clamp, plus other various methods, so I bit the bullet and grabbed the tube of silicone, will see tommorow how that went Stupid bloody rubber gromet 
No pictures today....was too busy punching s**t, throwing tools and generally just screaming out naughty swear words God my neightbours must love me
Let's hope tommorow goes better eh! BYW, does anybody have any hints on how to remove the alternator pulley......I had a very special set of swear words for this little f**k, fitting underdrives wasn't much better
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Silicone is most definately your friend when getting the top hose to seal. I have never ever had a thermo switch seal without it!
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{USERNAME} wrote: Silicone is most definately your friend when getting the top hose to seal. I have never ever had a thermo switch seal without it! As I found out the hard way....but thanks anyway mate I'll get there, was just venting I suppose.
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can i ask why you didnt use el fans and el ecu, works great
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{USERNAME} wrote: can i ask why you didnt use el fans and el ecu, works great
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The ugly sister thing... Well, if yours is a hottie (which she is) then the ugly sister ... OKay okay. So the mags weren't as bad as horn rimmed spectacles. But they are kind of like bown baggy corduroy trousers.
Mate - "WTF" should be more reserved for use about parts supplied without fuses and wired back to front! I take it that the bits wired back to front were relays? All I've managed to do on mine lately is change the headlight H4's to super white (almost blue) 5000K's. The left doors still don't lock (or unlock) but at least by unplugging them the rest of the car doesn't know they havn't locked so the other doors are now locking. I am beginning to hate all things involving handles, actuators and electricity. I also found that my thermo fans had forgotten to put their bolt back in and thus could lean back and touch the front of the air con pump with the metal of the left hand fan. This has been creating sparks... Was surprised to note that everything still works 100%. |
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OK, thermo's are in and working perfectly......finally
The silicone done wonders with the leak, and I hooked up the second fan to the AC today and took it for a lengthy test run....and happy to report no more problems. Have the fans kicking in at about 1/4 temp and only ever got to about half after giving it a bit of stick around the local industrial park. a few pic's as usual Relay's and thermo switch all wired up   My lovely silicone job  no more clutchie or fan shroud  All back together again   
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Nice work mate, enjoy it, thermos are heaps better.
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Next will be the underdrives. Castlegreyskull has kindly offered to machine the water pump pulley to fit and I will be visiting a local mechanic to borrow a rattle gun to get the friggin alternator pulley off as I have tried all other suggestions and the mongrel won't budge.
Underdrives ready to go! Well, sort of  The problem child  The water pump pulley needs to be machined out to fit  And I have a new diff to fit in the near future and then it's off to the Dyno I go
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Underdrives done! Well, sort of.
My water pump pulley has now been machined to fit (thanks to my mate smithy) and I have now got them fitted. Still havn't changed the alternator pulley yet, but they are only about 5mm difference in size and the tensioner soaks that up nicely. One thing I found is that the tensioner socket hole had been flogged out, so I found a cheap one on e-bay ($10) and fitted that up whilst I was at it. Amazing what a simple change in pulleys does for throttle responce and acceleration Guess which one's mine  New water pump pulley ready to be fitted  All done!  
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Nice work there mate, it is a very good bang for your bucks mod on a 5.0L.
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