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Old 15-07-09, 21:21
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I'm not permited to leave the farm often so my daily drive is the patrol wagon that apears in a fiew posts. Wife drives a toyota torago which I get to drive if she is not at work otherwise I have to borrow Mum's camery it has a towbar so I need it for recovery work. The patrol has 303,000Km, torago 180,000Km and the camery is aproaching 300,000Km.
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Old 15-07-09, 22:39
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My daily driver was a 1989 Chevy pick up with a 6.2 diesel and a five speed manual. Two weeks ago I sent it for scrap with 560,000 KM. It had some severe rust issues to the under side. My winter car that has become my daily driver is a 1997 Chrysler Intrepid. I miss having a truck already, so I will find another.

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Old 16-07-09, 03:02
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Like Cletrac I have an S-10 with a V6 (1994) with 460,000 km. and a 1990 Chev 3/4 V8 with 585,000 km. The miles add up when a round trip to work is 200 km. "CHEVYS RULE" Neither truck has had the engine opened.
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Old 16-07-09, 04:59
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I drive an old Ford Falcon XG ute.
Like Mike's Falcon I have converted it to LPG dual fuel.
I drive it pretty hard most of the time, it returns 14l/100km (20mpg).
Engine is the fabulous 4.0 litre inline six and is rated at 148Kw (almost 200hp)
Running on LPG means that my 550km week commuting to work costs me around $45. It has around 230,000km on the clock which is F.A. for one of these things...
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Jo's Drive is an old Fairlane, also on LPG.
This is the largest Aussie car in the Ford range & it returns around 11l/100km (26mpg).
A tank of LPG costs around $40 & will get us 450-500km, the engine is a later evolution of what is in the ute & is rated at 165kw (220hp). Also has around 230,000km on the clock
My last Falcon had 450,000km when I sold it, the one before that had 350,000km on it (but the odo did not work for seven years of the ten years we owned it!)
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Old 16-07-09, 05:34
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I drive an old Ford Falcon XG ute.
Like Mike's Falcon I have converted it to LPG dual fuel.
I drive it pretty hard most of the time, it returns 14l/100km (20mpg).
Engine is the fabulous 4.0 litre inline six and is rated at 148Kw (almost 200hp)
Running on LPG means that my 550km week commuting to work costs me around $45. It has around 230,000km on the clock which is F.A. for one of these things...
Attachment 29006 Attachment 29007
Jo's Drive is an old Fairlane, also on LPG.
This is the largest Aussie car in the Ford range & it returns around 11l/100km (26mpg).
A tank of LPG costs around $40 & will get us 450-500km, the engine is a later evolution of what is in the ute & is rated at 165kw (220hp). Also has around 230,000km on the clock
My last Falcon had 450,000km when I sold it, the one before that had 350,000km on it (but the odo did not work for seven years of the ten years we owned it!)
Those XG utes are a mix of two cars . They used the old XD ute back panels and the EF front and joined them together , link here:

http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mell...256D1F001C3CA7

I always wondered why some of those utes have the old 4.1 push rod motor and some like yours have the OHC motor .. I'd love a ute, but they tend to be pricey, the wagons are dirt cheap in comparison. I bought mine from a scrap metal yard ....192K on the clock . Drives like a new car . Parts are dirt cheap too ..super crap auto has stuff like water pumps .
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Old 16-07-09, 12:19
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Those XG utes are a mix of two cars . They used the old XD ute back panels and the EF front and joined them together , link here:

http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mell...256D1F001C3CA7

I always wondered why some of those utes have the old 4.1 push rod motor and some like yours have the OHC motor .. I'd love a ute, but they tend to be pricey, the wagons are dirt cheap in comparison. I bought mine from a scrap metal yard ....192K on the clock . Drives like a new car . Parts are dirt cheap too ..super crap auto has stuff like water pumps .
Actually Mike, the XH ute had the the EF front. The XG was an updated XF. And no they didn't have pushrod 4.1 straight sixes in them. You have probably come across someone who has had an old XD ute and put new front panel work over it.
XG utes had overhead cam engines out of the EB Falcons in them. 4 litre. We called them EB2.
XH utes had a version of the EF engine called the hybrid.
Those were the days. Nowadays the ute has the same engine as the sedan whether it be LPG, standard or turbo version.
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Old 17-07-09, 04:04
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. The XG was an updated XF. And no they didn't have pushrod 4.1 straight sixes in them.
I know the old push rod 6 was used in utes until 1993 ( read the link ) .... whatever model that was ... sounds like the ute was called the XG from 93 onwards and still a XF before 93 ..confusing isnt it . They kept the old push rod motor in the utes for another 5 years after the EA came out with the OHC motor ...is that correct ?

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Old 17-07-09, 03:29
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Those XG utes are a mix of two cars . They used the old XD ute back panels and the EF front and joined them together...
I always thought this, too, until I went to replace the seats. XF seats did not fit... EB Fairmont Ghia seats slipped straight in...
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