Well, looking at my X-Flow (and *sniff* saying goodbye to it for a few weeks as I return to the ship), it appears to be an '85 EFI unit, with an 84DA casting. Would this be an XE or an XF unit?
I have a Ford of Australia XF service manual.
This led me to start pondering...what are the year-to-year differences in the X-Flow? Different carbs, injectors, seals, gasket materials, compression ratios...are there better/worse varieties?
I know there are alloy and iron head versions, and that there are 3 flavors of rear main seal, but beyond that, I only know the limited things expressed by the XF manual.
As the XF manual only gives one procedure for rear main seal installation (press in with "special tool"...definitely not correct for a split rope-style which I think the early castings used?) I worry that I might need to buy an XE manual, a "Gregory's" manual which will include more variants, or a real XF engine!
I know it's a lot of ground to cover, but I've been searching for a while and I'd like to hear some thoughts on all this...especially as I am now making my "round two" list of parts needed from Down Under...
Thanks!
Ben
I have a Ford of Australia XF service manual.
This led me to start pondering...what are the year-to-year differences in the X-Flow? Different carbs, injectors, seals, gasket materials, compression ratios...are there better/worse varieties?
I know there are alloy and iron head versions, and that there are 3 flavors of rear main seal, but beyond that, I only know the limited things expressed by the XF manual.
As the XF manual only gives one procedure for rear main seal installation (press in with "special tool"...definitely not correct for a split rope-style which I think the early castings used?) I worry that I might need to buy an XE manual, a "Gregory's" manual which will include more variants, or a real XF engine!
I know it's a lot of ground to cover, but I've been searching for a while and I'd like to hear some thoughts on all this...especially as I am now making my "round two" list of parts needed from Down Under...
Thanks!
Ben