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Hi , I am in the middle of making proper tab washers for original crossflow either round or oval air filter housings . These were the tab washers that sat over the filter housing mounting studs on twin choke webber carburettors that held the retaining nuts in place . I couldn’t find any on the market anywhere close to the original Ford ones . I had an original lent to me to be able to copy . I have just got to get them plated now and then fit them to my Mexico . Has anyone else used or seen this type in recent years ? .

In the end I bought the exhaust I was looking at, at that money I thought it was worth a try. The section to go over the axle was fine, everything fitted without any cutting or modifying. I have one long section spare, 4 angle sections spare and 3 joint sections spare. I just need to raise the rear silencer up (bracket ordered) and cut the length back as it sticks out a little to far, otherwise really pleased with it, and the new stainless bumper was a perfect fit too. My car isn't a show car but overall I am happy with how it is slowly coming along as a presentable classic

Bumpers arrived today. Fittied very well, all holes in correct places, very please indeed

To infamy............and beyond!

This issue is normally resolved by removing the steering wheel from your pants......It's ok i'll wait.............

So I came across this Sierra listed as a 1 owner with 14,000km. I wasn't really looking to add another car to the collection but I was too curious to see it and hear its story, which goes something like this... It's 1985 and this gentleman having recently been to the UK was fascinated by the Sierra's futuristic design. So back in Malta, he went to the local Ford dealer and ordered a Sierra. Not one of the basic versions, but a 2.0 Ghia finished in diamond white. He also wanted to have xr4i wheels but those would have costed him an extra 1k so he fitted a set of mille miglia instead which were smaller but similar in design. Fast forward a couple of years and an unfortunate accident at his place of work prevented him from driving the Sierra again, mostly due to its lack of power steering. But he couldn't part with it. So he just locked it up in the garage and did not move it ever since. The Sierra was never meant to be his daily car so it was never taken out in the rain or made use of its huge luggage space. When I went to see it (pictures below taken in previous owner's garage today), the doors were stuck, it was impossible to push (sticky wheel cylinders) and it's engine was last started up in 2007. Original steels and trims tucked away in a corner covered in dust. We got some jump leads and all the warning lights from the trip computer came to life on the ignition. We removed the air cleaner, poured some fuel on the carb and after a couple of misses, the pinto came to life! A deal was struck and it will now be off to the mechanic for re-commissioning.

Vinegar on mine thanks.

Got the 6" variety on mine.

Happy B/Day Fella - Got you a couple of Porthole, bubble windows for the Shagwagon - carrier pigeon is SW bound!

[emoji85][emoji85][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]....I don't know!! [emoji23] Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Not sure how rare this is - and it's not strictly a Ford. It is a Falcon Caribbean, which uses the good ole sidevalve four, but I'd never come across one...

Right. Got ya. Now I see. The clouds have parted, etc.!!

Was decent show easier for me to get to.not bad getting out .definitely room for improvement. One bridge was a bit awkward especially when buying parts .then the rain came .Nice to catch up with a few faces though

Here's mine... Sussed out after 5 years how to add a file....

Love it. I had the exact same car when we needed a 4 door, after 2 kids popped out of my Betty's flower. Bought it tax free when I got posted back from Germany to the UK. Served us really well until a nice old lady decided to park her car into my front quarter and twisted the chassis.

After much searching over here in Canada for a Capri, I eventually found one. Not in Canada though, as all the ones here have rusted away due to all the salt on the roads in the winter. The one I found was in Danville, Indiana, which is just outside Indianapolis. I worked out the cheapest way to get there (certainly not the quickest tho), put my tools in my rucksack and headed to the bus station. I left Toronto at 9pm on Friday night, and made it back at home at 3:30am Monday morning. The car had only been driven 1300 miles in the last 9 years, so taking it over 500 miles in 2 days was bound to show some problems. Here's the story of my American Capri adventure.... I took the bus from Toronto to Buffalo New York, as its much cheaper to fly there. The border guards entering the US weren't too impressed by my plan of buying an old car in Indiana and asked me lots of questions about how I was going to get there, how I was going to get back etc, and why I needed so many tools! :xd: I eventually satisfied them and they let me through. I arrived in Buffalo airport at 1am and slept on a bench until my flight at 6am. A quick stop over in Washington DC and I was in Indianapolis for about 10am, although pretty tired due to lack of sleep but excited about the journey ahead. The Capri is a 1976 Ghia with a 2.8 Cologne. I was originally a California car and hence has a Motorcraft 2100 polution carb, with air pump and EGR and all that other crazy gubbins European cars didn't have back then. The cars current owner met me and my travelling companion at the airport in the Capri and took us to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to transfer the title to my name. After a bit of faffing about trying to get their computer systems to accept my Canadian address it was done and I had a bit of paper with "Temporary Permit" on it to stick on my windscreen so I could drive the car without plates. The cars previous owner wished us luck and pointed us North and we were off. After 5 minutes of driving I decided I wasn't happy with the steering so pulled into a KwikFit type place to get the tracking done. They said go have some breakfast and come back in an hour. We did and they hadn't started. 30 mins later they gave me the car back and told me they couldn't track it as there tracking machine was broken. We headed up the road to another place who said come back in an hour so we went to wall mart and got some Panama hats and Hawaiian shirts. When we came back they hadn't started either, but eventually it was done and we set off, 3 hours later than planned. It was just before setting off I head my first Capri cliche in the US. If you have ever driven a Capri, or probably any old ford for that matter, someone has probably said to you, "Cor, you don't see many of them these days". One of the mechanics at the place that did the tracking said to me, "Hey man, I didn't think there was any of them left". Given that they were never a very popular car, most Americans don't even know what the Capri is. This guy seemed quite jealous I'd found one so near him and he hadn't heard about it. Here we are with the car, all tracked up, wearing our new Panama hats. We set off, heading North towards Detroit as that is where we would be stopping for the night. All was going well and I was getting the feel of the car when disaster struck. There was a loud bang, steam sprayed over the windscreen and the back wheels locked up. We slid across the road and I managed to come to a stop in the hard shoulder. I got out to asses the damage. I was very confused about what I saw. Water and come out of the radiator cap, and the rear drivers side tire was shreaded and all wrapped up in the wheel arch. I was trying to find a connection, thinking something had broken off the engine and punctured the tire. My theory was that the blow out had locked the wheels up as the tire wrapped its self up in the wheel arch, stopping the engine and the pressure had blown the cap. After filling up the radiator I couldnt get the cap back on. On closer inspection it appeared that part of the neck had broken! I managed to bodge it on using some fuel hose clips, then I pulled in at the next petrol station and got some jump leads and used the croc clip to hold the cap in place. Amazingly it seemed to work and we weren't loosing any water! We were back out on the open road again, crusin But then, it happened again. Another blow out. Thankfully this one wasn't as dramatic. Luckily the previous owner had given us 2 of the original wheels as well as the spare, but we only had 2 sets of lug nuts to fit the original wheels, so if we had another blow out we were gonna be screwed, and I didn't fancy out chances of finding some 13 inch tires in the middle of nowhere, so we proceeded cautiously. More cautiously than American bikes who don't wear helmets! After all the hold ups with the blow outs and getting the tracking done it was 11:30pm by the time that we arrived at our hotel for the night. The Detroit Motorcity Casino Hotel. The road coming into Detroit was pretty rough. All the street lights were out and there were gangs of people hanging about in the dark on every street corner. Inside the casino it was nice though, although it was an interesting crowd. Half the guys there were dressed up like huggy bear. We played some roulette and black jack, had a few pints, and went to bed when the bars closed. Here's the Casino by day, massive place: The next morning we got up and I made some calls to try and track down some 205/60/13 tires. It was still a good way to Toronto and I had lost faith on the tires that came with the car after the previous 2 blow outs. They looked good but I think they were just a little old and the high speed long distance drive was finishing them off. Luckily I found a place that had some new ones in stock. I'd never heard of them before, "Tempra" but decided I'd take what I could get. We hurried down there to catch the place as it was closing at 1pm and we only finished breakfast at 11:30. We go there and found that non of the staff could speak english, they were all mexicans. Then the boss came out and he translated for us and set his boys to work putting the new tires on and balancing them. Once the new tires were on and I'd handed over $270US of my hard earned we headed to our next destination, The Henry Ford Museum, so I could make my Pilgrimage to the great man. Its a massive places, filled with planes, trains and cars, as well as all sorts of other stuff. Definitely worth a visit if you are there. Here's some of the more interesting exhibits: The Prototype Mustang This thing is powered by 4 Hemi V8s! This was Henry Ford's attempt at a model T for the skies. The dimensions were set when he said he wanted a plane that would fit in his office. It was too dangerous and hard to fly though and only 3 were ever made. The Car JFK was shot in The above is my favorite car there. A father and son from the south of Chile set out one day in this Model A Ford, with $5 in their pockets and aimed to realise their life long dream of visiting the Henry Ford museum. They set out in 1992 and after 2 years of staying in shelters and taking donations for the drive North they arrived at the museum in this car where it has remained ever since. That must have been one hell of a road trip. The Henry Ford Museum is surrounded by other Ford buildings and factories. The factory tour wasn't on as it was Sunday but I'm going to go back another time and do it. It was really getting late now, about 5pm and we still had to cross the border into Canada, so we headed to the Ambassador bridge: Once in Canada I did all the necessary paper work to import the vehicle, paid the tax and we headed East to Toronto. I really wanted to stop and take a photo with Detroit in the back ground of the Capri, but time was pressing on and I didn't want to come off the high way and get lost so we pressed on. I'll get some better photos when I go back to do the Ford factory tour. The plan was to stop in half way between Detroit and Toronto at London and visit a fellow Capri enthusiast, David. He has a very nice 2.0 mk1 as well as a V6 mk2 which is an ongoing project. Its a very good thing we had this stop coming up. All the way there I was watching the temp gauge slowly creep up. It had been a 1/4 all the way, but in the last 30 mins had risen to 3/4. As we came off the motorway and dropped the revs we heard the engine was not happy and making lots of rumbling noises. We stopped at David's place, turned off the engine, saw coolant pissing out of the hole in the water pump. It must have been leaking out all the way since detroit and thats why the temp was going up. This is where David really saved the day and announced that he had a new waterpump in the garage, as well as a radiator with a good neck on it. We had a couple of beers and got busy. A few hours, a tube of silicone and a tub of swarfega later and we were done! The temperature stayed low all the way back, and the car we sounding much happier. I finally got into my bed at 3:30am, dreading getting up at 8am for work. But I'd made it home in one piece, with the car and without needing to call a tow truck! :woot: Today I took it for a safety inspection. That is a bit like an MOT but it only happens when the car transfers owners. They don't have annual inspections here and the whole thing is a bit of a farce. They told me I need new rear shoes, a wheel cylinder and a new pair of TCAs. I wasn't happy about the TCAs and they seemed fine to me. I challenged the mechanic and he put it up on the ramps and showed me the play. I couldn't see any play and complained. He said "Hey man, they aren't bad, but its the safety you know". Not happy but its not big deal replacing them, just need to find a set. Parts availability here isn't the best as it was never a popular car. Anyway, I'll find some, go for the retest, then I can put plates on it. And then, I can start with the modifications and driving it like I stole it. :xd:

You might get mugged if you near Merthyr

Thanks for the welcome and encouragement. It's an nteresting story on how the guy bought the car and the road trip that followed from the States into Canada, so must have been quite an adventure! I've seen this motor on another site previously and always liked the look of it, being a 2.8 Ghia, with a paint job that really compliments the car in my opinion. I own a MK1 federal Capri, and always on the lookout for a yank Capri ll to keep it company, hence my interest in this particular vehicle...

Thanks for the pictures and input guys - I have found the heater fan switch plug - has the same colours! The genius that made my loom chose not to use Ford wire colours but did it to BS. colours which are alien to me! I'm relying on their pin-out / colour call out to be correct on the stalks but its guesswork on the motor - the dual plug with red and green ford colours are motor connections earth via body. Its maddening when schematic says one thing and the actual wiring (that is working) is different! But i've got something to work with so excellent work chaps!

not sure if mk2 is same as mk1, your wire colours to the heater fan switch are the same as mine though, on mk1, the heater has a constant positive, the switch centre pin goes to the heater, the fast speed side connects direct to earth, the slow connects to earth via a resistor, (on a mk1, this is on the column support) the switch switches earth, not positive your wires have browns in, brown usually resembles earth

Yes electricity isolated two pin

I have also a new springa-flex steeringwheel , they are not very strong , but thats a advantage when you crash and when you are not wearing a seatbelt.,, 😎 I have mounted longer centerbolts becourse the center didn`t stay on , i did grind these 3 heads so the center stay ony very good now and i did file out these holes a little bit. And i also put on a heavier washer. And i did let make the RS center logo for it. But they look cool and give it`s a old skool flavor.

Many Happy Returns of the Day to you Scott (aka Vista). Only 1 more year to the big 50 … make the most of your last year in your 40's! Hope you have a fab day

And again i did something on the dashboard , more than a year ago i bought a 6-dial , the first serie from a 1300 GT. I was working on it , and i want to re-chrome the front , but sunday i did bought another 6-dial a second serie with a RS1600 rev couter and speedo of the first serie, So i bought yesterday another incomplete 6-dial a first serie to make it original and complete. And i did remove the fake woodtrim and it make more sporty. I have more wishes of the interieur but thats comes later.

Happy birthday scott

Happy birthday mate

Claire Grogan......drool.

Another just for you.

That looks really good.

Happy Birthday

hi, here are the pictures i made, you have to up load them, i will put some up and make a comment, later, cheers marcel 2019-06-11.zip

Darn I was going to get him the same but you beat me to it. Genuine Aussie Ford ones too.

Happy Birthday Scott.

I'm curious - why Dry Sump a road car? What benefit do you gain?

Guess how I read this.....😂😂

Thanks Vista. Was good to meet you at CFS. Gave you a hand knocking the gazebo pegs in.....well bending them anyway!!! [emoji106] Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

20ft! You must have the LWB limo version then. Or is that the as found condition? If so add on 47 Scotchlok connectors, and all the extra wire is either red or black.😁

That and it looking nothing like Thunderbird 2! Although, this little gem caught my eye: "Specification includes Green seats with yellow number 2s" Ahem! What?! Obviously selling due to ill health!

This is an old photo, that shite rod at the top hasn't been there for about 2 years. But the setup is 95% the same.

Baught some 7j JBM wheels

Ok kool just wounderd I'm going to camp there I'll let you no if it's any good

I'm not a big fan of 'stangs but this one is just bonkers! Whoever came up with the idea should be certified - its mental and brilliant in equal proportions and the workmanship top notch IMO

It just makes it easier to get your whores in and out of the car. As we all know - whores love nothing more than ease of access, nothing worse than having to get out the car, folding your seat forwards and letting your whores in and out.

I bought one on ebay and it snapped be careful i would bolt it on and really give it a shake.

Well done everyone who made the trek up to Mallory to be on the club stand and well done also to the OSF staff that organised it all.

Yours looks right I would say rich ,here’s a pic of mine

I really like the site, I'm proudly a contributor,I don't post much but read lots . It's a great reference library and soundingboard, the for sale sections don't get as much use as they used to but with ebay and now Retards Club it is understandable. I may not be noticed when I visit as I do not always log in but I'm here! I appreciate your help, and banter please keep it going, I'm sure that we would all miss it not being here Mike