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fairlane6970 wrote: Hey Mick how about we get all us Cardi Red cars together for a shoot?  Sounds like a plan Ross, but who else would be joining us? I seem to be collecting them all here 
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
NCIILANE wrote: fairlane6970 wrote: Hey Mick how about we get all us Cardi Red cars together for a shoot? Sounds like a plan Ross, but who else would be joining us? I seem to be collecting them all here I've got one  You bought my other one, give it back - hahahaha! Would have loved to grab that beasty to have a matched pair. Oh well, the six will have to do a while longer......
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That's good then, two lanes and 2 wagoons so far.
Don't think I could wrestle the keys back off her now, only time I will be allowed anywhere near it myself is to do repairs and maintenance  One thing Mark did warn us about was the drone from the zorst, it is quite head numbing........decision now is whether to go hot dog or standard resonator 
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Very sad to see the wagon go, seriously if Mick didn't buy it I was going to keep it and build a little carport in the backyard for it. I just couldn't drive the kids to day care and school at nearby Cessnock each day with the state of my lower back so the need for a 4x4. The wagon did get a reprieve when I converted it back to auto although it never did perform like it did when it was a 5 speed manual. In the end I didn't have enough driveway space so it was the backyard option or sell it. In a way, I'm glad a fellow fordmods member bought it. I hope the missus is happy with the wagon Mick.
PS. Get the resonator on it!! I'll dig up the original photos of it of when I bought it off carsales back in 2003. |
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after seeing how well mick looks after his lane, i think the wagon has gone to a good home..
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She is very happy Mark, glad I talked her into having a look at it. You were right though, her only complaint is with the drone from the exhaust, but that should be an easy fix.
Any old pic's you can dig up would be great, love to know all about the history of the cars we buy. Only fellow enthusiasts like yourself can appreciate why I buy the cars I do. Already had the few downers who carry on about owning one V8, let alone 2 (won't count the third, it's gunna be gonskies soon )Thanks troyman, no point owning older cars if your not on the ball about keeping up with the maintenance and looking after them. The wagon will be well cared for and a deffinate keeper  Cheers, Mick
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It is a nice car that is for sure.
Jeez if you have downers up there about having a V8 dont send them down this way. There are 3 of the mofo's here all registered and running! Seems strange that it makes more financial sense for us to keep them all instead of either buying something else or getting rid of one. I have found taht fault finding when you have a couple of cars the sam eis easier and cheaper. Just steal the suspect part off the running car to either confirm or deny the problem is that bit. Thats how I worked out the airflow meter fault in the XR. Much cheaper then buying bits to swap around.
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Mostly relo's from the wife's side mate. They just don't get it. Why would I fork out 20K for a car that will lose value and be worthless in 5 years, when I can get a clean boxcar and have a nice cheap car that costs bugger all to maintain and repair
I have a s**t load of spare parts lying around, just better make sure I don't get too agressive selling off the LTD parts, and then find myself needing said part down the track. I'll just keep the bits I know are hard to come by  This EF/EL interior on the other hand, well, that's another story. Not many spares here for that model Not complaining mind you, the missus loves the newer model interior and it seems to be growing on me too.
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I was playing around with the wagon today and noticed that the hose between the TB and the Rocker cover oil filler neck was not installed. Anyone know if this would cause any problems? The throttle body pipe has been capped (and the one on the gas ring) but the pipe on the rocker cover is open and has a fair amount of vacuum pressure. I have a spare hose I can steal off the LTD engine if needed. Might just throw it on tomorrow to see if the idle changes???
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i would say if its LPG then it would be blowing it off or blowing into the rockercover housing causing leaks. so it was removed to stop this happening?
a 1 way valve would be a good investment for the 2 hoses IMO |
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DO NOT DO IT MICK!
If you put the hose from the throttle body to the rocker breather you will end up with a crankcase full of LPG...........BAD. The breather from the rocker cover has to go on the air inlet side of the gas ring. On my Mav it is on a fitting I put in the air inlet tube between the AFM and the mixer. It has to go after the AFM because it makes the car pull unmetered air into the combustion through the PCV. As it is at the moment the car will be getting unmetered air which could cause a grumpy idle and a flat spot on take off and it will be sucking all sorts of airborn dirt and grit into the motor through the rocker cover if it is opened and unfiltered. Best option would be a little trip the the exhaust place and have a steel inlet pipe made up with a small hose barb welded in the side to take the breather hose. Once you do this the idle will change quite a lot for the better. Only thing is it might throw the tune at idle out on the LPG.
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Mine has always been fitted on the NF, but I did take it off for a while and plugged both ends, but the oil filler end was building up pressure so I chucked it back on, didn't seem to make much difference on mine but I'll think about what evil says when I wake up it is 8am on a Sunday ffs!
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EVL098 wrote: DO NOT DO IT MICK! If you put the hose from the throttle body to the rocker breather you will end up with a crankcase full of LPG...........BAD. The breather from the rocker cover has to go on the air inlet side of the gas ring. On my Mav it is on a fitting I put in the air inlet tube between the AFM and the mixer. It has to go after the AFM because it makes the car pull unmetered air into the combustion through the PCV. As it is at the moment the car will be getting unmetered air which could cause a grumpy idle and a flat spot on take off and it will be sucking all sorts of airborn dirt and grit into the motor through the rocker cover if it is opened and unfiltered. Best option would be a little trip the the exhaust place and have a steel inlet pipe made up with a small hose barb welded in the side to take the breather hose. Once you do this the idle will change quite a lot for the better. Only thing is it might throw the tune at idle out on the LPG. Thanks Matt, Hit the nail on the head. I bought it knowing it wasn't running well on LPG, so havn't even bothered with that, but looking at the lane, the breather tube connects to the gas ring on the clean air side, so I will just pinch the hose from the LTD and connect it there for now. Don't plan on keeping the LPG, just a restriction on the airflow IMO! Will just make the missu work more hours to cover the extra fuel cost Don't use the LPG on the Lane either, so nothing has changed really, just the extra boot space from changing the daily from the Lane to the Wagon It does have a grumpy idle anyway from the cam, but it has been cutting out on petrol as well the last couple of days, so this can only help matters. Cheers, Mick
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fairlane6970 wrote: Mine has always been fitted on the NF, but I did take it off for a while and plugged both ends, but the oil filler end was building up pressure so I chucked it back on, didn't seem to make much difference on mine but I'll think about what evil says when I wake up it is 8am on a Sunday ffs! Have a good sleep in princess I can't talk, got up at 10:30 When I put my finger on the breather tube, there is a fair bit of vacuum pressure there, so I could see how it would build up pressure over time if it was capped. When I removed my finger, the noise it made could only be compared to a human holding their breath for too long, and the relief evident when you suck in the much needed air again 
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huggiebear wrote: i would say if its LPG then it would be blowing it off or blowing into the rockercover housing causing leaks. so it was removed to stop this happening? a 1 way valve would be a good investment for the 2 hoses IMO Quite possible Huggie, but won't be f**k around with one way valves, been there done that. Did a similar thing with the intake pipe on the Lane, installed a one way valve I designed to fit into the dogturd junction to stop blowing up airboxes. Worked wonders, but at the end of the day, I wasn't using the LPG unless I was on a long drive down the F3, so I removed the friggin thing and just stopped using LPG all together. Problem solved For now I will probably just shut the gas off at the bottle and remove the mixer. That way I can reinstate it should some d**k greeny politician decide that old cars can only run on LPG
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