XB The Money Pit - Page 4

LandauGirl · 08-07-2013, 10:25 AM

What a beautiful job!

what cleaning process did you use on the wipers?

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Jallopy · 13-07-2013, 11:58 PM

For stainless steel I use 1500 sandpaper
For hard to get places I will use fine steel wool.
Finish with Autosol paste polish.(almost useless)

Both wipers and windsreen moulds were done like this.

LandauGirl · 15-07-2013, 10:05 AM

right! that's my job for this weekend. thanks for the advice.

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Jallopy · 25-07-2013, 11:12 PM

Engineer has given it a tick of approval

Went staight thru for the blue slip.
One of the workers was drooling over it, and wanted the ph no of the guy that did the upholstery

Rego all paid now and ready to start burning some fossil fuel

Speaking of fuel I put in a new Rare Spares XB fuel sender unit in this week and checked the shape of the pick up pipe against the one i removed and the new one has a bend in it half way down to lift the filter tip up off the floor of the tank about 2 inches.
Yep.... they had them all made with the bend going the wrong way.

I put it in the vice and bent it back down so it will just touch the floor of the tank when installed with the lock ring.

I have just come back from the wheel aligner this afternoon and cant believe how nice it steers no pulling or tram tracking at all.
I thought I may of had issues because of the wide 265/50/15 tyres it is running up front.

Phil B · 26-07-2013, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Jallopy

Speaking of fuel I put in a new Rare Spares XB fuel sender unit in this week and checked the shape of the pick up pipe against the one i removed and the new one has a bend in it half way down to lift the filter tip up off the floor of the tank about 2 inches.
Yep.... they had them all made with the bend going the wrong way.

I put it in the vice and bent it back down so it will just touch the floor of the tank when installed with the lock ring.

Yeah I got caught with that too, caused me to run out of fuel with half a tank left still! I haven't had a chance to fix it yet though, but that was my plan. How nicely did it bend, and was there much of a risk of kinking? That's what I'm a bit worried about.

Great job on getting it done! Enjoy it

lilmattie · 26-07-2013, 12:11 PM

Where are the completed photos?

Coupes and More · 26-07-2013, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Phil B

Yeah I got caught with that too, caused me to run out of fuel with half a tank left still! I haven't had a chance to fix it yet though, but that was my plan. How nicely did it bend, and was there much of a risk of kinking? That's what I'm a bit worried about.

Great job on getting it done! Enjoy it

thats why i always keep fuel senders i have atleats 3 XA-Xb ones that work plus a couple Xd and xe ones cos they break too lol

Jallopy · 29-07-2013, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Phil B

Yeah I got caught with that too, caused me to run out of fuel with half a tank left still! I haven't had a chance to fix it yet though, but that was my plan. How nicely did it bend, and was there much of a risk of kinking? That's what I'm a bit worried about.

Great job on getting it done! Enjoy it

I straightened the original kink out then bent the pipe like a banana until it was bent down far enough. It went easy no kinking.

Jallopy · 29-07-2013, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by lilmattie

Where are the completed photos?

Here are some photos taken at its maiden run to the ALL FORD DAY at Eastern Creek

These are all forum members cars in this pic I think there were 16 of us there together under the banner "Aus Ford Forum"

/////.....And here is the tinware I won

Back home again.

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