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My XF got a new 4.1 donk last year . The Borg Warner autos are long lasting if you dont thrash them . Still lots of XF's on the road around here , they are a favourite BOGAN car  Ford kept that front end from 1960 in the XF's Mike
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Hi Mike.
You'd be old enough to remember the ads on TV for the new Ford Falcon with the 'Million Pound Drive' front suspension. They were spruiking that it had cost a million pounds to develop what was a not very well executed McPherson strut. Within a few years it wasn't that unusual to see a Foul-can (We always called them that, we were a GM family) on the side of the road with a front wheel back underneath the car due to the failure of the fore and aft stabiliser rod. Not impressed. David (Still a GM man)
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Not quite old enough to recall those TV ads  But I do remember the local cops using light blue Ford Anglia's , the 105E model. The first Australian Falcon, the 1960 XK, suffered from weak ball joints , they were not strong enough for the rough country roads . Ford beefed up the ball joints in the XL model and that solved the problem. They used that exact same front suspension design on Falcons right thru to 1987 . My neighbour down the road is a Falcon collector, I will ask him about the stabiliser rods failing, he will know about it .  Mike
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Hi Robert,
Congratulations! We had that great event last year when our oldest daughter turned 18. Cheers,
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Greg's party was last night and one of the guests didn't want to go home until after midnight so she could celebrate her 17th birthday as well. I ended up driving her and another girl without a licence home at 12:15 and arrived home again at 01:15. On the way home a kangeroo I had passed decided it would be a good idea to ram the side of the car, fortunately no real damage was done. Quite a fiew of the guests didn't realise we lived so far out of town and how much wildlife we have to dodge on the road.
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Greg received a phone call today. He is now about to join the working class.
He will be moving to Queanbeyan next month to start a heavy vehicle mechanic apprenticeship.
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Greg, Well Done. My son is a diesel Mech. heavy stream and there is plenty of work out the.
Rick.
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