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now sold to a fellow oldskoolforder

cheers Darren hope all is well

will do mate ive got yr number and everything nice one

got another member from oldskoolford coming to view this week who is very keen, sorry if ive been a bit slow getting back to you seaneylad but its difficult to work out sometimes who is trying it on and who is genuine, and we all know how many of our cars are going missing these days, and how many scammers are around, now I know who you are I will keep you posted and thanks for your interest, don't wanna sell it but needs must and all that

mine and my brothers beloved mk1 escort up for sale good spec 2.0 pinto 5 speed shit loads of other bits fully restored inside and out OIRO 10k resto thread on the car on my sig pic location Bedfordshire PM if interested

gotta be done kids, ill put an ad on here also but everything always ends up on e bay anyway, onwards and upwards

1600e im pretty sure should be an English axle, drop the half shafts out and prop off undo the ring of bolts that hold the diff into the axle and out it comes, mind the oil though, as for setting it up properly prob best to speak to the specialists on here ie WPE or ashton mobile, both got there own rooms on here mate

depends how much you have tightened it mate, the correct way is to set up the preload on the pinion bearings with the crown wheel assy out etc but the way I have always changed the pinion seals is to mark the nut, undo it and retighten to the same position, if u haven't crushed the washer any further when u tightened it you may have got away with it, if u can feel a bit of backlash when u rock the propshaft back and forth you might be lucky, especially as u have only done it up with a ratchet

being shorter and thicker and with wider mounting points means you get a heck of a lot less roll

paid one ticket and one stand pass thanking you muchly

Everything seems to be fetching ridiculous money these days, it was a bit of a shed tbh but it was the 1st escort I done, would of done a proper job if I had it now mind you, oh well lol

Lol @ bigfish thanks for your sympathy!!!! That was 2001 as well not that long before everything rocketed in value, it was already pinto'd and had a 5 speed but could have easily put a crossflow back in it, oh well lol

Owning this, a genuine mk2 harrier with history bill of sale the lot, and doing it as a mex rep and flogging it for £800 massive shout of w**ker to me if u please

Shortly after buying my first Mk1 RS Escort back in the early 1980’s, I discovered that there were differences in the Anti Roll Bars that were fitted to the RS range when compared with the standard cars. One of the most noticeable differences being the length from the front cross piece of the bar back to were it mounts in the Track Control Arm, The Twincam/Mexico style bar is about ¾” shorter than the standard one. A guy who had been around Mk1’s for much longer than I, told me that this was because RS’s were fitted with 13” wheels as opposed to the 12” wheels on a standard car. The shorter bar was needed to pull the larger wheel and tyre forward so that they wouldn’t foul or catch on the back edge of the wing or the area of the front footwells. It sounded a reasonable enough reason - and in my innocence I believed him! Sometime later I discovered for myself that the reason he had given was wrong (I’m trying to be diplomatic here). Yes the rearward arms of the bar were shorter but the mounting point was moved further back on the mounting bracket which to the best of my knowledge left the wheel only very little further forward, this had the effect of a very slight increase in castor – or the self centring effect of the steering as it is known. I think the reason for the shorter arms was to increase the effective stiffness of the bar. All of this means that if you are using a standard bar, you must use the standard bracket and if you are using the Twincam/Mexico style bar then you must use the mounting brackets that go with that bar. If you mix these items up you will end up with your steering angles all wrong and a seriously miss-handling car. That’s all well and good, but what if you have a Twincam/Mexico anti roll bar but cant find the proper mounts to go with it – well the answer is quite simple, do what Ford did, they didn’t make one specially for the Twincam/Mexico etc, they just took standard mounts and modified them. *found this on the web explains it better than I can lol*

http://www.rallydesign.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=15434