hi allan1010, i also am new to american cars but my path has also lead me to the agent in ripon, he was a great help when i called in, but he did not seem keen when i wanted to fit the system myself and came up with a real fansy price.
tartarini is the system i bought of ebay and for a couple of hundred i thought it was worth a shot.
every forklift truck at work uses impco and are rated very highly.
again let us know how you get on. bokker.

 

That's good to hear about Impco. Given the choice I'd have gone for tartarini purely because of previous good experience (I had one on a Saab in the 80's). I guess we'd better hand this thread back to it's original purpose now we've finished hijacking it LOL

 

Hi well i'm down the south of England bit warmer than oop north! I have various daily drivers but usually i'm in a 73 toyota crown custom estate or 89 vw caddy truck,also occasionally use my wolseley 6/110 but not my 77 f150 because its all in bits on workshop floor.

 

hey, from the U.S. my daily driver is a 97 f250 heavy duty 4x4 7.5l efi , heavy duty 5spd trans. extended cab with 3.55's in the diffs. my wife's ride is a 05 excursion 6.8l v10 auto. 4x4. i also have three one ton trucks 68,and two 70's drw's 4spds with 360 and 390 power, 78 bronco custom 351m , 4spd and 72 f100 4x4 swb 360 built with np435 trans, np2o5 gear to gear transfer case, hd 9 inch rear , dana 44 front , 4 inch lift 33's a 69 ranger bought new by my grandfather and last but not least a 68 ranger that is rust free ,we saved from the crusher.....just love my fords...

 

1997 Lincoln Town Car Signature Series
1988 Ford F-150 XLT Lariat, SB, 300 ci, AOD, 3.55, 77,000 original miles.
1930 Ford Model "A" Coupe, all original w/rumbleseat.

 

Yep. There goes Larry making me jealous again...

 

Wolf, some of the fruits of retired life!

 

gday all.
i drive a 1979 f100 custom.
lwb 2x4
351 running on straight gas (propane)
14x4 k&n retro filter
power steering
15 x 8 chromes

Not much more has been done to it but the plans are big.
I have two weeks hloiday coming up so in that time i should be able to design and lay down a decent flame job to help lift the paint till i can afford a new spray.

cheers,

jase

 

Sounds good Jase!!!
Do you have some photos of your effie? You should put them in your gallery.

 

Gday Jase
Did you do the power steering conversion?
This is the next 'to do' on my ute ( 79 SWB, 2WD, 351C,C6,9" )
Have been told you can use a 260Z power box but the Z car was much lighter than an old effie so I'm not real sure about this conversion.
Any info would be great

Thanks
Mike

 

That sounds a bit odd to me, the old Z cars had rack & pinion. Could be a real tough swap. Now I can't say for sure, but my '72 has rear steer (the steering box, drag link etc. behind the crossmember) and if yours is the same you'd really have a tough time getting that R&P unit in there...plus, it would be interesting to drive as it would turn the opposite direction you turn the wheels as the Z R&P unit is made for front steer.

Of course, you could be talking about some bizzare Aussie stuff we don't have up here, so I may be way off base.

If so, please disregard and just put me down as yet another Yank talkin' crap!

 

G'day TigerDan
You are right
I had heard the ZCar story from 2 different people, turns out the first bloke told the second bloke who told me and thus an urban legend is born.
The box used is really a ZF box.
Like your idea of a rack that works in reverse. You could really mess with some heads with that.

Mike

 

I had heard (and I could be incorrect) that a Falcon PS box would work.
Don't know - but its something worth looking into.

 

Falcon steering box will work and I believe that is what the boys at ftrucksaustralia use but mine has a 75 series Landcruiser steering box. Mine was factory power steer but when the box wore out the previous woner converted it to a toyota box as that is what was available cheap(more like free from the mines). I have recently had to change the steer pump but couldn't get one of the large resevoir types so had to settle for an XF Falcon pump which seems to be doing the job quite well but doesn't seem as strong as the original pump was. Anyway my truck is an Aussie 80(like US 79) F100 LWB 4x4 with 351C, 435 and 205 with Dana 44 3.5 in the front and 9 inch 3.5 in the rear, has duel fuel setup but I only run on LPG although the LPG is 75c a litre out here now, will convert to straight LPG when I add twin turbos(making the manifolds atm).

 

what i drive is a good ole stock 2004 f250 6.0, gots the sc, sb and is painted white with a silver bottom, one day it will have a leveling kit and some 35,s.

but if i lived in another country besides the USA, i would like to have one of those defender series or a cool nissan patrol.

i don't know what ford type cars are in autralia or other world places or might have listed.

that car on madmax is pretty cool, unusual looking but cool as heck, would throw that in my collection also.