G'day MF,
I wish I could see what this lockwiring looks like. Sounds like an easy solution to the Rover/Masport push ring folly.
There's someone around here with an XH survivor. Very clever of Ford how they disguised that aging XD based ute body shell with the EF nose. It fooled me for quite a while until I looked carefully at the windscreen and doors. That SOHC six is a smoothie. I think they retained the EBII -ED engine on those instead of using the revised EF one or am I mistaken? I'd like to find either the last model with the XF nose or a VR Commodore ute. I understand the Ford can take a pallet where the Commodore of that era can't.
I'll take some pics of some lockwiring I just did on a UHF CB antenna for the XH.
Yeah, the XH is quite a 'bitser', really.
Front panels are modified EF, to mate up to the XD body shell. But underneath, it's all EL front end - K frame, front suspension and steering, engine.
Ford went to coil pack electronic ignition for the EF, then switched back to distributor + electronic module for the EL and XH!
I'm just about to get a quote to get some rust issues [sills beneath the doors] fixed as a cash job by a local panel works.
I've done a fair few upgrades to this one, and it'll last me quite a while longer, as a backup and dirt road car.
It's a 'Longreach One Tonner' model, 6cyl, 5 spd manual. The manuals aren't real common in this model, and even less so in any later series Falcon Ute.
It's had fitted: an extra rear spring leaf; conventional LSD [not the almost un-fixable 'fluid coupling' LSD's the Longreach Outback models had]; OEM Outback engine sump bash plate and EF type alloy front bar; Impco Dual Fuel with a full width LPG tank in the tray; XR6 instrument cluster [that adds voltage and oil pressure gauges].
I do have a 'Donaldson clone' Outback air cleaner for it too, but I'd have to change to a different LPG system to fit that.
It would cost me multi thousands to upgrade to a later Falcon RTV model [those are factory lifted, and have an electric locking diff] ute, and this one has a driveline that's in very good nick - reco engine head and diff within its last 20,000k's.
The OEM shockers/struts were stuffed when I bought it [@ < 200,000km], so they were replaced by Monroe Gas units - still fine at 350,000k.
