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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
Another day, another update.
Today I removed the dash and heater box:  Stripped the interior:  Whats left is just sitting there as I have nowhere to put it out of the weather... The K Frame:  And the ABS unit with brake lines attached:  The ABS isn't going back in as the EL system is different and I don't have EL ABS axels or front rotors. Will probably sell the system complete. So the ED is looking a bit sad right now   Plans for tomorrow are strip the engine bay of everything that is left which is mainly wiring plus the brake booster/master cyl (ABS) and a few other bits and pieces. The bay will then be cleaned. Depending how I go I also hope to get the steering column removed, the pedal box removed and alot of the interior wiring gone. Tonight though I will be fitting the ED's fresh air box/vent from it's heater box to the EL heater box as the flap is unbroken. Then I'll renew the foam and she will be all ready to go in. I will also finish up the dash wiring with the door ajar plug. I plan to use some of the ED's wiring to run back to the doors, might as well use it for something! Cheers RD
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
One thing I forgot to add is that the ED's suspension had a camber kit - yay! This of course will be finding it's way onto the EL's suspension before it gets installed. It's only a shim version but better than nothing...
Cheers RD
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damn it... i need that back seat lol... mines still covered in animal hair
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Yours too Huggie? May a suggest a $10 black "mink" style throw to line your cargo area from now on?
Nice efforts there RDude. If you really want holes in your ED at that point in front of the drivers door (does the ED not have a VAC Reservoir there?) then simply get a hole saw attachment for your drill. Will take about 30 seconds to put a hole in and give a quick spray with Newtech rust primer or what have you. Not sure about what you're going to do with the lines running through it at that point, but surely they can be moved over one way or another... How the hell did you manage to get the ABS computer out with all the brake lines still attached, in my humble opinion I think that's a good effort... Although, wait - you did have no engine, K-Frame, Wheels, ....... |
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fiend wrote: Yours too Huggie? May a suggest a $10 black "mink" style throw to line your cargo area from now on? unfortunately its not any hair from me. the origional owner took her dogs along everywhere and they shed on the back seat and destroyed one section of the backing so she covered it in shadecloth  i have the sedan back seats ill be stripping and swapping material over (my dads an upholstrer) then hopefully find a sedan rear bottom section and throw it in to solve the issue but id prefere to swap the lot if possible
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
fiend wrote: If you really want holes in your ED at that point in front of the drivers door (does the ED not have a VAC Reservoir there?) then simply get a hole saw attachment for your drill. Will take about 30 seconds to put a hole in and give a quick spray with Newtech rust primer or what have you. Not sure about what you're going to do with the lines running through it at that point, but surely they can be moved over one way or another... Thanks fiend As for the holes. yup - a 64mm hole saw in my drill is the plan. As for the other wires, if you look at the EL shot you will see another hole just above the big one, that's for the vac line. The side indicator is part of the main loom so it doesn't need a separate hole. Oh, and yes - the vac reservoir still mounts there - same place as the EL. Cheers RD
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
Alrighty, good progress made by 12:30pm:
Dash area now totally stripped:  Engine bay totally stripped:  Wiper area stripped and cleaned:  And this is the mess called engine bay wiring from the ED:  Next task is to wash the engine bay and then the front end is all done, ready to be refitted with everything! More later Cheers RD
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Were you going to put the mounting points in for the EF / EL style seats? Sheez, can't remember if it was you or someone else... Ho hum, suppose I could re-read this thread, but will make up some excuse not to and simply ask you.
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
fiend wrote: Were you going to put the mounting points in for the EF / EL style seats? Sheez, can't remember if it was you or someone else... Ho hum, suppose I could re-read this thread, but will make up some excuse not to and simply ask you. Yup it twas me... see page 7
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im runing EF seats in my fairlane, the guy who done the seats apparently attached the inside EA-ED rail to the seat. works perfectly. not one issue with it
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
huggiebear wrote: im runing EF seats in my fairlane, the guy who done the seats apparently attached the inside EA-ED rail to the seat. works perfectly. not one issue with it I only did it the way I did it because I can now install any EF/EL/NL etc seats without having to modify them every time - bolt in 100% stock. Then again, I had a donor car to use the bits the from.
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
End of the third day update. No pics this time - too damn tired.
Engine bay now shiny clean. Installed a few things from the EL to kick things off: - Engine bay firewall padding. - Wiper motor - wiring is different due to loom - Front brake lines and rear line section to join current line heading to the back - Cabin firewall padding - 3 looms - left hand loom from the ECU into the engine bay. Covers engine wiring plus a few other things, sub dash loom (the one directly under the windscreen) and the right hand loom to inside the engine bay. The remainder will be worked out once I have the friggen big hole cut. - Pedal box in temporarily I also removed the brake and fuel lines from the EL so I can cut bits off to graft into the ED, bits like the fuel line connectors etc. More tomorrow Cheers RD
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for the fuel line issue, when i put the EL ticky motor in the NC, we cut the hose and the fitting off the EL lines, it leaves a nut and the same style joins as the NC/ED fuel rails so all we had to do was push the NC lines onto the fitting and tighten with a clamp like usual. alot easier then trying to adapt the EL lines.
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
I might use that idea yet, still not totally decided.
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Age: 63 Posts: 1584 Joined: 20th Mar 2005 Ride: EDL Fairmont Wagon/AU XR8 Ghia Location: Riverstone |
Just won a hole saw set on ebay so hopefully in a couple of days I can do all the required sawing. Lots to keep me busy until then.
This will probably be the last update for a while, no one seems to give a rats what I am doing anyway. Not the sort of "mods" for Fordmods obviously. Cheers RD
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