Love it 👍👍 What exhaust and mufflers are you using? Cheers

Bleed every bubble from your engine from the top of your radiator cap with a Repco Radiator bucket then you know there is zero air pockets in the engine and entire cooling system. And NEVER mix different grades of coolant like you did. The green and yellow coolant are not good for Old School Engines as they have a corrosive inhibitor in them. Use ALWAYS Penrite Old School Classic Radiator Coolant which you mix with water.

Mate you didn't need to go to that extreme. Get your hands on a genuine FoMoCo Radiator for a V8 and all your problems would be solved. Putting in this doesn't look or match the vehicle whatsoever and could have been way easier achieved given I run an XW GT 351 in the NT where its way hotter than where you are based with a 160 thermostat and no issues whatsoever. The only time it gets to 180 is when I pull up and turn it off , then when I start the engine back up it drops almost instantly back to 160. And even at lights in traffic.

I have a ve ss and i cant seem to get the oil life reset it doesn't work

Should of got the SSV

This sounds sweet mate,I'm on the hunt for some new mufflers,can I ask what exhaust set up you've got on this beast? My XW is way too quiet,the previous owner chucked on some cheap shitty mufflers to pass a bluey...

Thats some gritty, mean, old American Power right there i say i tell ya what

🤔 I'm sure the car needs to be level when draining ??

The radio fascia dummy spit is gold hahahahahaha

Put 50 grams of Saxa white pepper in the radiator and warm it up. Will last for years and years

“Timing light on the road, that’s optimistic” hahahahahahahahaha

Well folks, we are 6 months on and that bit of epoxy is still going strong! Get on it!!!

You also need to use the gaskets each side and the problem will go away, found this out about 45 years 😮ago, shit I'm getting older and I do miss my 351's in the workshop.

More than likely the strong additives in the 98 unleaded.

Fair Dinkum!!! hahaha Hola Amigo, from San Jose, California! I have a 1965 Comet Caliente Convertible with a BOSS 302(originally a 289) She is now a resto mod. I originally bought her 22 years ago, then hired my uncle to restore after a bad accident and engine issues. he didn't get to finish the restoration cause he fell ill now I'm trying my best to do all the work and not take it to a mechanic. She's having overheating issues & i'm thinking i need to replace the water pump(or at least take a look at the condition of it) and the radiator. I appreciate your content mate, keep it up! Oh the screws in the doors of the Falcon were hard to look at. Yuck! I wanted to start a channel about my car but I'm not a pro mechanic, I'm more of a watch a YT video 3 times then fuck around and find out mechanic! 😎 🤣

Of course when i tried to reset my engine oil life % it didn't work :(

Why use a 3D printed part on something needing that kind of reliability? If it's not 3D printed then why does it look like it is.

That thing run ordinary fuel I imagine? Just wondering? Could there be any reason to build excess heat? Lean combustion perhaps? Excess heat often wreaks havoc on intake gaskets. Just a stab in the dark.

That is why you cover them in Vaseline. Or Axel grease before you put them on then they are re reusable

Not a gasket, spacer

IN THE BIN 😂😂

Bro I hope u didn't put ngks in that Ford autolites u WILL notice a difference

Get in there boot that bin 😂😂

Nice vid mate i concur or at at least i do until i try the restrictor plate myself. Rebuilding my stroked clevo now which i have been dealing with overheating for many years with different fan, water pump combos until i put on a 16" spal pusher fan coupled with a mechanical engine fan. This combo JUST keeps it driveable up to around 30-35C. FFS i cant believe i didnt find out I was missing the plate till now! It makes total sense, fingers crossed it works for me. So did the factory have a plate in there?

Anyone done this with an 05 v6 statesman or commodore?

"Sorry boss, I'll be late for work. Gotta replace my car key batteries"

If it's a push button start and it womt detect the key, the starter button pulls off and you can put the key in and turn

I use to habe tose keys only change one I 3 years

Feels like I am changing these batteries every second week. Hope this helps anyone with the same key to get the job done quickly and easily! Cheers!

Dont forget the front light bulb change, especially on the wm ....

hi how did you workout what size jets you needed

Thanks for sharing this 👍helps me alot👍

I have an 08 v6 calais. The bugs in the tail lights made me laugh. The amount of spiders, Flys in mine is truly incredible 🤣

G'day missed ya last night ,at work on a break . Cheers 🍻

G'Day mate , FFs your still at it lol Catchya...

"Kinda like my old one" "Beau"

Great video mate! awesome. I had a lot of overheating issues with my Monaro when I first bought it, found the wiring to be very undersized, with yellow joiners with thin wires in between, the yellow joiners were brown! and the earth wire (yes, single one) that went to two AU thermos, was rock hard... haha replaced it all with a much thicker dual twin core, and twin relays my overheating problem went away for good!

Great video brother.

Great stuff! Also, nice pair of XWs you've got there mate. 🤙

Probably the camera angle but it looked like your Alt. alignment was on the piss.

Well done meatball, good explanations mate.

Late falcon XF radiator in copper or even go to alloy 2 row of 1.25 in [each] . Down flow or crossflow does not matter ,,a LARGE surface area exposed to air flow is king PWM fan controller also helps with start up and running amp load plus fan noise

Used a Davies Craig digital controller with a sensor in a Davies Craig plastic sleeve spliced into the top radiator hose. Currently have it set to high 170's so it doesn't go over 180. I still wanted the dash gauge to show temp with the original sensor in place. I also use a dual thermo fan from an EL Falcon I think but had to cut it up and modify a bit for the top radiator inlet. Have an XD triple flow radiator that is a work of art. I use the correct thermostat but 180 degree. Used the heat gun to confirm block stays around 180. Made a custom battery tray to fit as no chance original fits with XD radiator.

Love the car man great job. What is that fan from part number?that

I think I'll be chasing a fan set up like yours. 👍

Top tip if you don’t want to do half of this work just dump all the coolant to make sure you don’t have any glycol in there top up with plain water and add a product called “DEOX-C” get it in power form !!. it dissolves rust completely…… and I contacted the company and they said it was safe on the metals and plastics that are in the system leave it in there for a month it likes heat so drive the car My cars heater started working again!! My blocks coolant jackets were clean The radiator had no scale left in it I also had no deposits in my tefba radiator strainer the stuff works It also allowed me to unscrew the lower block coolant plugs out as they weren’t rusted in anymore I drained then flushed with distilled water then refilled with coolant from my local diesel truck mechanic Edit: I also had a water pump noise on this same Cleveland I did this work to.. it was the built up scale on the impeller scraping on the front timing cover that noise also went away 😊

Just catching your video now .awesome

Nice video champ !, sorry i missed your last live chat.

I had issues with my thermostat on my clevo. Went and asked at the local parts shop for a new one, typed into their system found the part and wacked it in. Gave me heaps of grief. After chatting to a few guys on forums, the correct thermostat is a dayco dt66a. It's worked perfectly ever since.

You pretty much covered it all and are not another flog on the internet. Nice water pump you fitted, and that should stop cavitation issues that Cleveland’s can have with a water pump with a pressed tin impeller. About all you missed was having a good recovery tank and correct radiator cap for the system. Top vid mate. DK