OK, Todays list of things completed.

The most important is that, I shipped my lovely wife off to the USA for seven weeks. She is going to see our daughter who lives in Atlantic City, and is an Apprentice Ballerina.

This of course means that I will miss her terribly..... while modding the hell out of the Wagon!!!!!!

After I got home from the airport, my son Luke and I, with the help of Racedirector who happened to drop by, removed the pedal box and intalled the manual pedal box. I also removed all the EB Cruise Crap from under the dash, along with the TCM.

So I now have a clutch pedal. Yipeeeee

Next was to sort the heater box. I moved the relevant parts from the EB1 heater box to the EB11 unit. Now anyone who has pulled one of these out, should have noted how the foam had gone all powdery. So I made a quick trip to Clarke Rubber and grabbed some high density foam. After a few snips here and there with some scissors, I made replacement foam seals for the heater box.





This should prevent an issue the Red EB is suffering, which is air blowing down in the passenger footwell while at speed.

I also installed the fresh air duct from an EL. It seems that on a lot of cars the vacuum solenoid arms are broken to the fresh air duct, but this one is intact. We will see how long it will last. LOL

Other bits removed include the old EB1 A/C piping, and I also turfed the Auto Gear selector.

Oh, AutoBarn had a special on Degreeser. 99c a can. I bought a box of 12. Figured I would need it all to clean the Wagon engine bay.

I hope to make more progress tomorrow, beginning with putting the dash back in.

Cheers
BenJ

looking good ben. i wish i could sort out the issues my NC is having. its stuck on demister and only blows hot air...

hey benj would u be able to post up of copy of the lpg wiring diagram...just curious to see how youve done yours...

I wonder why it had a safety switch...its not needed on efi systems because the pump is cut by the ecu when it detects a stall...the lpg usually uses the FP relay to open and close the solenoids...

Well, got a few odds and ends done yesterday and today.

Yesterday (Friday) after work, as my son was cleaning out the wheelie bins with the pressure washer, I decided it was time to clean both engine bays. So after a bit of work and a can of degreeser I ended up with this.



Plenty clean enough I think. The ED Ghia looks much the same.


Today, I got an early start.

I put the dash back in and neatened up the wiring under the steering column.

Installed the brake light switch, and when I went to test the brake lights nothing was working properly. So after stuffing around for a bit trying to fix it I asked Snap0964 to have a look as he is visiting, we realised that as the engine is out of the car, the earth is not connected. As soon as I bolted the earth lead down all the electrical things worked. Phew.

Troyman called in to see what progress we were making and came for a quick shopping trip with Snap0964 and myself. We picked up a few odds and ends, like resistors, heater hoses, and transmission fluid for the T5.

While Snap0964 built the loom for the manual conversion, I pulled the BTR off the ED engine, and removed the flex plate. I installed an new rear main seal and a rear welsh plug, before degreesing the engine and hitting it with the high pressure washer.

Then it was time for the flywheel, spigot bearing and clutch kit to go on, and finally the T5 was installed.







It is now 99% ready to go in the Wagon.

I noticed the EB1 log manifold loom was slightly different to the EB11 loom, so in the morning I will swap them around.

Then it will be going in.

If all goes well, my next update will be after I have been for a drive.

Cheers
BenJ

getting there ben..
i might pop around again tomorrow and give you a hand??

Cool, you are most welcome.

BenJ

Wow buddy, lookin bloody good! You are making nice progress there and should be ticking along real soon. I am so jealous of the fact that you are making such good progress AND that you now have a 5 speed

Cheers
RD

looking good ben, i wondered why i couldnt get hold of you since your wife left.. lol will be good to see the wagon up and running again.

what differences are there between the looms?

i would to know some more regarding this air blowing on the passenger footwell while at speed,is it just due to the foam around the air box

correct me if im wrong but i believe it between the air vent in the enginebay section where the air is ducted from and the heater unit itself, pushing itself through and onto the passenger's feet

well if thats the case i think the missus well just have to put up with it

I just love seeing engines on hoists that are going back in.... Ohhh, yeah..... One day I'll be up to that - general consensus would state the week after the EF's ticking turns to clunking - until then it's going to be a test of my new found confidence to even attempt the manual conversion.

You guys are the wind beneath my wings
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Woooo Hooooo

It's aliiiiiiiiiive.

Yes, that is correct. I have test driven the Wagon, with the T5, running on Petrol, and . . . . It is goooooood.

Still have a few things to tidy up, like, put in the thermo fans, centre console, tidy up the wiring under the steering column and install the LPG wiring.

In addition to that, snap0964 installed the EL wagon tailgate setup so the tailgate locks and unlocks with the car.

Re the wiring, the EB1 is very different to the EB11. I had to use the EB1 throttle body and injector loom and most of my morning was spent sorting that out.

We also found out why the wagon wasn't running on petrol. The fuel pump relay base was so corroded and messed up it couldn't connect to the pins on the relays. The solution was to cut the base off and use spade connectors and an aftermarket relay.

Sorry but there are no pics at the moment, but I hope to have some tomorrow.

Cheers
BenJ

Excellent stuff, well done. I look forward to all the pics. It certainly does help to have all the gurus in the various areas to get all the good things done. Am more then jealous now!

Can't wait to see the beast in the flesh....

Cheers
RD

I found that out too, its like ford decided the EB 1 should have the least amount of circuitry of any of the boxcars.