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What a friggin nightmare of a day. Had to go do some shopping first, which included picking up some springs from a guy off ebay, then got home and got started putting the new springs on around 1pm. Guess what. The new springs are too damned short. With the cap on the end of the shock absorber, there was still room to move the spring up and down. $125 down the drain.
 Went to pedders and bought a set of AU XR Super Lows (according to the salesman). They are the red ones in the image. Low and behold, these ones actually did the job. YAY. We finally finished getting the damned things in (after waiting for paint to dry) around 8:15 with light quickly fading. Managed just enough time to get a piccie of the front lowered section to show you all. The lowering of the a*** will occur tomorrow, then I'll be getting a wheel alignment done on Friday and I'll bring Monty along Friday night for everyone to drool over.   Have a lookee: Oh, and I've noted the irony that the units that came out were a red shock absorber with a black spring and gone back in a black shock with a red spring. LOL Attachment: smDSCF2122.JPG Attachment: smDSCF2140.JPG Attachment: smDSCF2142.jpg Attachment: smDSCF2144.JPG Attachment: compare.jpg
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Did I hear someone in the world say YAY?
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the fairlanes are the same.. superlows in a lane are lows in a falcon.. to if i throw ultralows from a falcon into my lane ill be tucking wheel nuts...
bit difficult to see but the front has fairlane superlows in it  and then with falcon superlows  its a good inch to 1.5 inch drop |
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Monty is finally lowered! YAY.
Much easier to do the back shocks than the front ones. LOL. Looks so weird when I look at it though. hehe Here are piccies of the springs for comparison, Monty in its new look and the comparison of before and after. Attachment: sm_DSCF2147.JPG Attachment: sm_DSCF2158.JPG Attachment: final_compare.jpg Tomorrow I'm taking it to get an alignment done so that I can bring it to Liverpool tomorrow night. Next up to be done, probably in this order (neither of us want to do the last one) is The thermo fans, door mirrors and heater core. You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. |
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Very very nice!! That is one hot looking boxcar now that it is lowered, makes me more eager to go out and find one for myself lol. Glad to hear it all worked out mate, bet you're over the moon about the new stance
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{USERNAME} wrote: Very very nice!! That is one hot looking boxcar now that it is lowered, makes me more eager to go out and find one for myself lol. Glad to hear it all worked out mate, bet you're over the moon about the new stance Oh yeah. Its strange, I can't imagine it not lowered now, and it was only lowered this morning. LOL. Thing about photos though, they hide all the scratches that are on it, like under the driver's door handle, upper part of the guard arch etc. Still, it does look damned good in those photos. 
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cam, that car look nice lowered like that,
how much did the pedders springs cost?
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{USERNAME} wrote: cam, that car look nice lowered like that, how much did the pedders springs cost? The Front ones were $180.00 but the rears we bought from a guy in Wollongong for $60.00 for the pair. Do you STILL want the front shocks from EDDY? I will remove them if you do?You could try what I did to Cam's car and go the AU fronts? Springs will cost same or you may find on Ebay for MUCH less. I wouldn't go ULTRA lows. The Super lows that Kings list are what you want. But, you will need to buy Lowered Rear Shocks to work with new Rear springs. We go them from CV Joint Aust @ Auburn |
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I already got the ultra lows an now I don't have a car to put them on lol. Oh well
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I already got the ultra lows an now I don't have a car to put them on lol. Oh well
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It was time to change the head on Monty, I did everything right and when I put the stupid rocker gear on and moved it a little than had to remove again, one of the lifter fell out and, DON'T know where it has gone to
I heard a drop the a little tinkle sound and gone don't know weather it went down the motor or into the Cat Hope it is the latter, Cam will be posting pics soon of the FEEELTHY condition of the OLD head. |
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{USERNAME} wrote: It was time to change the head on Monty, I did everything right and when I put the stupid rocker gear on and moved it a little than had to remove again, one of the lifter fell out and, DON'T know where it has gone to I heard a drop the a little tinkle sound and gone don't know weather it went down the motor or into the Cat Hope it is the latter, Cam will be posting pics soon of the FEEELTHY condition of the OLD head. how hard was it to do?
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{USERNAME} wrote: how hard was it to do? Very easy actually except for me losing the Lifter just fiddly and you will need a ratchet ring spanner to do the back bolts for the inlet manifold on ya EF |
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{USERNAME} wrote: It was time to change the head on Monty, I did everything right and when I put the stupid rocker gear on and moved it a little than had to remove again, one of the lifter fell out and, DON'T know where it has gone to I heard a drop the a little tinkle sound and gone don't know weather it went down the motor or into the Cat Hope it is the latter, Cam will be posting pics soon of the FEEELTHY condition of the OLD head. by the sounds of it the lifter has probably fallen into the engine?? was it a front or a rear lifter?? as long as it hasnt fallen into the timing case, it will be in the sump, you coild try fishing it out with a teliscopic magnet, but dont worry if you cant get it, it cant go anywhere.. you just need a replacement... |
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{USERNAME} wrote: as long as it hasnt fallen into the timing case, it will be in the sump, you coild try fishing it out with a teliscopic magnet, but dont worry if you cant get it, it cant go anywhere.. you just need a replacement... Thanks Troy, that settles our nerves a bit, George was thinking he'd need to remove the engine and pull it apart to get the bloody thing out. He used swear words I'd never heard before.  Incidentally, George says it was a rear lifter. |
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