EFFalcon

Not as exciting as the SA boys one.. but here goes!

A late trip to Sydney last week meant my car was stuck with stock bumpers while the others were off to get prepped for spraying, on the way home a nice grinding noise greeted me from the air con compressor.
500km's later i got to within 1 km of my gf's house where it seized.

Gave thanatos and psycho chicken a call and they came down to give me a hand to see if we could free it up.
We managed to get it freed up.. with the help of a hammer, cranked it... nice grinding again, i can handle that.
car wouldn't start now.. somethings wrong electronically
Thermo's are staying on.
LPG system seems to have no power.




Moving onto next day.. my car can't make it to heathcote.. dissapointed but i'll live

Morning of heathcote - Must be at Ford HQ (Broadmeadows at 2pm).
12 Mid day
Arrive at psycho chickens to prep for trip to heathcote..
only car in the drive way... psycho chickens car with car missing parts..
sure sign of worry.


12:30pm
Thanatos and Rmyers arrive with much needed parts to reassemble psycho chickens car


1:20pm
On the road, still need to get petrol and day passes.
Might make it to ford if we're lucky...

2:20pm
Western Ring road.. missed ford meet point and lost Rmyers during some unscheduled lane changing. Wait for him to turn up.


4:00pm
Travelling through Heathcote township.. 18km from Track


4:20pm
Arrival to HPR


Now to fix my car!

Pics of cars Racing for the day can be found here:
http://www.effalcon.com/pics/cruises...ote5/index.htm

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1995 EF II Falcon GLi: Heritage Green, 4spd Auto, AUII 17" Rims, Custom BA Front Bar, Lowered, Gas Research LPG, Clear Indicators, JVC MP3 Headunit, Phoenix Gold 6.5" Splits, Coustic 481QE Amp, Clarion 12" sub, Leather Seats, Power Window Conversion, 3.45 LSD, Pacemaker Comp Extractors, 2.5" Exhaust, Mandrel Bent Intake, High Flow Filter, Wade 1004 110 cam.

In Progress: BA XR Side Skirts, BA XR Rear bar, BA Shifter Handle.

 

Dellboy999

Well hope your a/c compressor getting replaced fixed, solves everything incluidng the electrical probs, maybe needs an ECU reset.

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John_xr6

what was rob doing to his car?

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1994 COBALT BLUE ED FAIRMONT GHIA
Next Mod - T5 Manual Conversion
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Thanatos

We were putting my old cam in rob's car...

We would've been alright until one of the rocker bolts seized (got it off by hammering a smaller socket onto it) and then rob dropped one of the lifter's retainer and cap into the sump. So a trip by Rmyers to jolly's for a bolt and ford for a lifter ($40!!!!) gave us the parts we needed to get it running.


I don't think Steve was having a good day, first a bus cleans up his mirror, then he gets lost as we make a four lane change. lol He didn't seem real happy...



Cheers,
Dave

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Kenaz

Good thread I like reading about all these adventures with pics, although it's unfortunate to hear about you car John. I hope it's not too expensive to fix

Ash

Thanatos

John rang a wrecker before and got quoted $230 or something crazy like that!

I'll go pick him up this arvo and we'll go raid jolly's for one...
Does anyone know what they charge?


Cheers,
Dave

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XR6child

SOunds like a fun day was had by all
Great story fellas! hope ya get the car up and running john

-Dan

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EFFalcon

Well the electrical side of the problem is fixed.
i just have a siezed pulley to deal with now.

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1995 EF II Falcon GLi: Heritage Green, 4spd Auto, AUII 17" Rims, Custom BA Front Bar, Lowered, Gas Research LPG, Clear Indicators, JVC MP3 Headunit, Phoenix Gold 6.5" Splits, Coustic 481QE Amp, Clarion 12" sub, Leather Seats, Power Window Conversion, 3.45 LSD, Pacemaker Comp Extractors, 2.5" Exhaust, Mandrel Bent Intake, High Flow Filter, Wade 1004 110 cam.

In Progress: BA XR Side Skirts, BA XR Rear bar, BA Shifter Handle.

MADNC_8

steves mirror was knocked off by a bus wtf!, how did that happen...... damn lucky it wasnt the whole car !~!

bad luck john, least you got somewhat close to home before it stuffed up completley

EFFalcon

the bus was unbeleiveable.
the mirror wasnt broken off, just grinded against the side of it.
bit too close for my liking!

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1995 EF II Falcon GLi: Heritage Green, 4spd Auto, AUII 17" Rims, Custom BA Front Bar, Lowered, Gas Research LPG, Clear Indicators, JVC MP3 Headunit, Phoenix Gold 6.5" Splits, Coustic 481QE Amp, Clarion 12" sub, Leather Seats, Power Window Conversion, 3.45 LSD, Pacemaker Comp Extractors, 2.5" Exhaust, Mandrel Bent Intake, High Flow Filter, Wade 1004 110 cam.

In Progress: BA XR Side Skirts, BA XR Rear bar, BA Shifter Handle.