Yes Bradley tell us more about this EL....................

I do believe he is asking me, seeing as this is my thread etc hehe.

Well mate, if it is free or less than $100 bucks then I am interested.

BenJ

Just asking was all

I am looking around for a cheapy so I can take the serpentine system and back brakes...

How did RallyKatty get a pink Ford badge? Anyone?

Am fairly positive they never made a pink one. Maybe PapaSmurf could waste valuable time scrolling through catalogues and confirm that.....?

you are correct fiend with ford only ever making blue badges, all the coloured ones are aftermarket, i remember about 5-8 years ago red ford badges were pretty popular, im pretty sure you can contact one of these badge makers and get them ordered in any colour you wish

Nice work on the badge BenJ, subtle mod.

Is there anything left for you to mod now man?

Cheers

ToranaGuy

guys im pretty sure you can just sand the badge down until its clear then put a sticker on the back...
phat EL did that...

Nah.. PHATEL put the stickers on the top of the badge.

the badge underneath is as it comes standard.
I know as i did the stickers

Well, Friday night was a bust. Literally.

Every Friday the Sydney boys and gals meet at Liverpool to hang out. This Friday, I headed out early to visit bradley4567 and pick up a couple of bits from his soon to be scrapped ED. We were on our way to drop in on SWC before hitting Liverpool for then night, when at a set of lights, I put my foot on the clutch to select 1st and BANG!!!! #^@% @$@%# $^@#%^ Clutch pedal stays on the floor. Bugger!!!!

After pushing the Wagon through the intersection and on to the shoulder a quick diagnosis revealed no clutch at all, and that either the cable had snapped or the rubber dampener, which was now missing, had let go. CRAP!!!!!

We were about 10kms from SWCs place so decided to try to drive there. I figured I could start the car in 1st gear and then change gears by matching revs. Had to eliminate the neutral switch with my previously installed bypass and jumper to get it to crank in gear, but once that was done was able to successfully get to SWCs.

Now SWCs is about 45kms from my place. Luckily the Motorway was not too far away, and once on it I could get near my place and only have a few sets of traffic lights to worry about. So it was decided to head for home, which we did with relative ease. There is no way I could have driven home if I had to use non Motorway roads.

Luckily I knew I had two used, but intact clutch cables at home, but I did not have the rubber dampener. I decided I would drive to a Ford Dealer in the morning and hope they had one in stock. I also had to drop my daughter to work at 8am, and as there was a Ford Dealer near her work, and the route wasn't littered with too many traffic lights, I decided to head that way in the morning.

Saturday morning, I rocked up at the Castle Hill Ford dealership, but they didn't have the dampener in stock, but confirmed that Parramatta did. There was NO WAY I could drive a clutch less car to Parramatta. Luckily I was able to contact 'a-total_tool' offered to go to the Parramatta dealer and pick me up a new dampener. Cheers mate, you are a champ.

While he was on his way, I removed the clutch cable in the car, and found it had indeed snapped, right near the gearbox end.

The offending cable next to one of the spare cables.


The thing is, over the last 10 days, I have had to adjust the clutch cable 3 times. Now I know why. The bloody thing was stretching. LOL.

The spare cable I have in is worn and very heavy. I will purchase a new replacement shortly.

Cars are fun, aren't they?

Cheers
BenJ

Sounds like you had some fun mate

Do you have a heavy duty clutch or a standard one?

bugger....
looks like the aftermarket clutch cable took advantage of you??

with the badge, there was a company years ago called Astor Base Metals in Lebkemba who would do the ford badges in any colour you like and would also make any sort of badge with any lettering you want aswell, but obviously they are not cheap by any ones standards.... good work though.

A mate of mine many years ago got a die grinder and started in on the back of the ford badge and kept going till he had removed all of the blue and then filled it with paint of his choice and left it for a week to dry (very thick as you could imagine) but from memory he had to be real careful around the lettering and border so as to not remove any of the silver, if you have a spare badge it might be worth having a go at.

Better still, have a look at this


Cheers

I believe you can start in the 3d and go (from my experience, Audi were able to do this easily, can not see any reasons why Ford can’t) without changing gears=abusing clutch and gearbox.
Good luck with new cable.

Thanks for the suggestion Yobbo.



TA XR Lane. I did have this link, however I think that $69.95 US + $12.95 US for delivery, is far more than I am prepared to pay for one coloured badge. LOL.




I did try to start it in Second, but it just didn't get the engine rpm needed to actually fire. 1st worked well each time I needed to move from a stop.

Cheers
BenJ