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Good productive day. Organised a lot of bits, and removed quite a bit. A couple of bolts/brackets to go to remove the inlet manifold to fit oil and water lines and gauge tappings etc. Changed fuel reg, map, almost every rubber cooling hose, fitted power steering cooling lines, ordered a few bits from ford, removed turbo again and replaced exhaust side steel line giving me the turbo water return. Tomorrow will be a really good day I hope, will be able to actually start fitting/reassembly. Pretty excited!

Day 3 Orford Breakfast Swansea Wineglass Bay Bicheno Lunch Matt's Place what more is there to say ahhhh I'll try to get a vid up soon - have something like 450GB of footage to go through ...

Pic of braided lines@Puffwagon P clips didn't have big enough holes for the bolts (and were thin enough that they got munched when I tried to drill them out), so had to stick with cable ties for now. Still looks better than one hard line and one braided line I reckon.

You can see the check valve in the bottom left of the photo.

I can find almost no information about a factory check valve but makes sense if it's in the middle of the hose(not visible in normal pics) but did find one post on a stuffed PCV check valve with a pic of a small plastic inline check valve (definitely not the PCV) I'll be heading to the Fraud dealer soon, will see if they have a part# for one. Probably just go ahead and put one in, easy cheap job.

It comes with one from factory. I didn't have one and wondered why it kept pushing the front and rear main seals out. I kept changing pcv valves and it didn't work. Called Ford and it has a one way valve in the middle of the hose.

A bit of oil pooling in the intake manifold runners is 100% normal for these cars. A catch can is the only good solution for this.

yeah, get some LPG ones, as they're cheap and do the same job as the turbo ones.

Yeah, I wasn't exactly looking forward to the assignment side of things...but it's a handy qualification to have and helps get me into the sort of work I want to be doing...plus work's paying for it, so why not!

1st GP tonight. I got Videopass this year its awesome.

Hey mate, Just popped back in after a wee while away and have read your thread from start to finish. Well done and keep up the good work buddy! It'll all pay off in the end and you'll have a nice looking turbo wagon I've been toying with doing this exact conversion to my old BA wagon so you are inspiring me greatly! I converted my old EF wagon to a V8 from a DF fairlane, but I did it the easy way by parking both cars next to each other! You are doing it the hard way and I wish you all the best luck. Keep up the hard work and keep us updated too

Yep I also have aquamist. I have a full install write up on here somewhere. I live in Darwin so it’s hot and humid here. We also had no E85 when I installed it. I had it for a few years now and it’s never failed. Aquamist is very expensive but awesome quality. I agree with everything Sixman said. I also haven’t tuned for my full potential. I’m on just over 500rwhp now.

WIDTMYC Fri night ~9.30 Decided after a few hefty scotches with family (2yo daughter's bday party) that the sooner my rear guards were given a trim the sooner I could fit the new rims. In the driveway with a work light, masking tape, 5" grinder and brotherly/brotherly-in-law (constructive-ish) criticism...result wasn't so pretty but oh well. Mossies were getting fierce and audience had disappeared inside so host's conscience got the better of me after doing one and I went back to scotch and cake. Sat Finished the other guard, fitted all 4 rims, tightened axle U-bolts & other rear bolts, then exhaust manifold, turbo & dump pipe bolts/nuts. Stuck some masking tape strips in the rear guards - half on the guard return edge and half free inside - then took it for a drive. Felt fine, didn't feel any scraping and marks on the tape shows there seems to be enough clearance now. Sun Washed it for first time this year. Had no tyre shine left but comes up alright for a 9.5yo work hack. Am convinced the usual film of dust & grime protects the paint lol Hope all pics show up for once. Will have to get some in a different light, colour of rims doesn't show up that great in the pics.