Yeah Ash Im f**k hopeless with cars. The disease is well and truely ingrained.
It will be a nice slow casual run back along the freeway in the Mav , the old man is coming with me and riding spotter.
I think it will come out pretty good. It will never be a Clevo but for what its costing and the lack of hassles to sort it all out Im a happy boy.
Huge thanks to Phill (taxi5l) for putting it all in place for this to happen!

It shows how he did the reflector and I think that it is the case in NSW as well, rear reflector is needed.

He was talking about TAIL LIGHTS and REFLECTORS (and REMOVING REFLECTORS) on the previous page... I am pointing out that a lot of countries (and states therein) actually REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE REAR FACING REFLECTORS and was commenting on his good taste in tail lights.

Just how many idiot signs do you have left for sale?....

That's old news! but.....

This is new news....



Good score matey!!!!

Ok I re-read the prevous post, Leave the Factory reflectors it makes the tail lights legal.

Yeah it does need red reflectors in it to make them legal.
But the XH rear bar that I will be fitting when I paint it has the reflectors already in it so they can be disposed of then.

I knew you would succumb to the lure of an 8. Welcome to the club
Brett

I reckon you wont be able to wipe the smile off ya face with fairlane donk in a ute ,it was great in the tank let alone somethink with no weight over the back should be fun.Im happy to help you out matt as it worked out for me too.

cheers phill

Well look what made its way home today........................


After a rather slow start to the morning (as it was bloody freezing here and the electric blanket was on high in bed ) I finally got my s**t together and got up and ready to take off up to Newy. SHower , coffee , breakfast , in to the Mav and go. Well that was the plan. I just didnt add "tend to flat battery in Mav" as I wasnt planning on it. Gotta tell ya clutch starting a 2 tonne 4b with a car trailer on it by yourself aint the easiest thing to achieve!
Had a fairly uneventfull run up the freeway couple of heavy bouts of rain but nothing major , got to Phills work had a chat , did the deal , got loaded up and took off.
Well with the run of luck with all things automotive connected lately I have been having lately I was convinced this is where it would all fall apart. I was expecting the car to fall off the trailer , the Maverick blow up , or quite possibly the whole shooting match to roll over and explode in a ball of flames. The best senario in negativity I could come up with was the dodgy hire trailer would sway like a snake in a hurry for its next feed and the Mav would overheat to buggery so I would be restricted to 60km/h for the whole trip home.
Glad to report that none of it happened!!!!!!!
The worst bit that happened was heavy rain all the way back to the M2.
The trailer pulled straight as a die and the Mav stormed home doing 90-100km/h the whole way.
Had some fun on Pennant hills road in the traffic. The look on motorists faces as the dirty old white 4x4 with a car trailer and a big Fairlane on it wheelspins all the way through first and half of second cause it cant get traction on the wet road is priceless!
Got the Fairy home , unloaded and the trailer returned. Put it up in the driveway ready to clean up tomorrow to put it out the back and my olds rocked up. Well I decided that seeing as though there was someone here to use the camera Id better test out the driveline , just to make sure it was working right.




Seems to be working ok for me!
I reckon this will go quite lovely in the ute!

Most Mums would crack the wobblys about such stupid behaviour , as my old man was taking pictures Mum was standing in the driveway , cracking up laughing and cheering me on and then ringing my bro up to tell her what was going on and asking him when the Burnouts are being done at his place so she can come up to watch!
I cant say enough positive things about Phill with this whole deal. He gave me a sensational deal on the car , organised everything to be picked up at a time when I could get there easily , loaded the car on and strapped it down for me as he has a lot more experience with car trailers then me. He even gave me a call a while ago to make sure I got home ok with it!!!!
Thanks mate I cant thank you enough. Phill is one of the few good people about now days.

The ute will come off the road July 16 and providing I have got the other jobs done on the missus's 4x4 that need doing by then the big strip down and swap over will begin!

I approve of the driveline test method.

Did the neighbours like look over the fence when it was in test phase?

My neighbours like very little about me , which is ok because I dont have to feel bad about hating them then. The neighbours on one side are cool and we get along well , the ones on the other side .......yeah well.

just read this all from the start love everything u've done with it and cant wait to see the the 5L in it

Thanks mate. Its getting there slowly.
I cant wait for the 5.0 myself!

Ok I need some help sorting a issue out here. The issue is getting a speed signal to the auto box.
I would like to keep the ZL star wars dash in the ute but need to get speed signal to the auto computer controler for the gear changes. Is there any way of doing this just by using the gearbox speed sensor or does it have to come from the cluster?
Having a box built to convert the E series speedo out put to the XF dash is the easy bit.
I just need to get the signal to the box. Or will I have to track down a C4 auto and run that?