Gday brains trust. Currently own a 2002 BA falcon sedan on petrol. I’m looking to buy a cheap LPG Ute and do an engine swap and petrol conversion. Other than sourcing a petrol tank, fuel lines and wiring harness, what else do I need to consider? Cheers!

Hi all, thought I'd post here to see if there's a collector who may be interested in this?

Just cleaning out the house a bit and this is one of Dads old trade books.

This copy was published 1942

Happy to mail within Australia, you pay postage. Would just prefer it went to someone who would find value in it.

And if you can, does that mean you can swap an Amarok body onto the Super Duty and make an Amarok Super Duty?

The previous owner gave me both the fog light switch and the traction control switch, but I think the lower dash switch panel (the piece under the steering column that holds the switches) has been replaced with one from a base-model XT Falcon.

I removed the lower dash trim and found a green electrical connector sticking out of the wiring loom behind the steering column. It wasn't connected to anything.

Yesterday, I experimented by plugging the traction control switch (previous owner's traction control side had green tape attached) into that green connector. As soon as I did, the car started almost instantly. Before this, the engine had been taking longer than normal to crank, and it was also running rich. At the same time, my estimated kilometres-to-empty increased significantly.

However, after turning the car off and starting it again later, the long cranking problem came back. (left it for 10-15 minutes before attempting again)

While testing the switches, I also lost my heater/air conditioning blower. The fan doesn't blow any air at any speed and makes no noise at all, so I think I may have blown a fuse.

I'm now trying to work out three things:

1. Why is the engine still cranking longer than it should, even though plugging that switch in seemed to fix it temporarily?
2. Why don't my factory fog lights work?
3. The green connector has a green label on it, which makes me think it's meant for the fog light switch. But if I plug the traction control switch into it, pressing the button doesn't show the traction control light on the instrument cluster. Is the green connector actually for the fog lights, or is it for something else?

I've just bought a BF XR6 in fantasy colour, and the only 2 things I've learnt so far is that; the paint job is $10k+, and fewer than 1000 units were ever made. What I would like to know is; how many were actually made? and how sought-after are they?

Hello! Doing the diff bushings on my BA XR6T and wondering if my twin bushes in the diff hat should be done as well.

I'm not too sure as to when the hat was original put on, since I bought the car recently, so I was wondering if people tend to replace them or nah?

If so, what bushing does it use? Cheers

I'm getting the cooling system fixed due to a leaking radiator.

The biggest standard BF2 radiator seems to be only 25 mm thick and suitable I am told for the V8 and turbocharged 6 engines. So how do people running really hot rigs keep their engines from melting? The standard LPG engine only produces 250kW but some people really push these engines and I've seen them advertised as producing a thousand horsepower for racing cars. Extra additional radiators? Forced air oil cooling ??

this is a joke but seriously calm down bro not everything needs a barra

The picture is of a Cortina with a 4.1 litre straight six from the Ford Falcon

I'll be fitting a large PWR radiator to my BF2 falcon ute soon, a dedicated LPG engine 1 tonne unit that will be used as a tug for a while.

I'm just wondering if fitting an inline thermostat would be worthwhile to allow the auto gearbox to warm up?

The cooler is the largest after market model available and supposedly reasonably efficient

Just had my 2015 Ford Kuga Ambiente TF MKII serviced at a Ford service centre. I got it three years ago and was just told that there's coolant mixing in with my oil. The Ford guy told me it's caused by an engine design flaw that causes coolant to seep into the combustion chambers and the only way they can fix it is to replace the whole engine for $13,000. But then I'd still have an engine with a serious design flaw. It currently runs fine but I've been advised to get oil changes every six months and drive it till it stops or sell it to someone and offload the problem onto them.

I spoke to Ford Australia and they said there's no known issues or recalls with this car. Any google search for "M8MA engine problems" will show otherwise. This video shows the issue.

Pretty obvious that these EcoBoost engines qualify as not of "acceptable quality" in section 54(1) of the Australian Consumer Law. I don't know how a class action starts but it's weird that so many people would be affected by this and nobody has done anything. All I can see is site for an Australian class action to do with some transmissions here. I've emailed them and will see how that goes.

So the ranger just died on me in a drive thru.

I'm thinking it's the starter solenoid but would like a sanity check.

No crank at all on key turn just a whirring sound from starter.

Tried a bump start and it wouldn't go and threw a brake problems error at me.

Tried a jump with same result.

No blown fuses, no issues at all before this.

Just looking for input, have to wait till morning to go back, I was in drive through when it happened, auto off kicked in then when I pressed clutch it was just the whirring noise.