Flipped rear leafs is the bomb

Awesome work dude that looks mint! cant wait for more future vids

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Yeah vids should start coming more often as I’ve kinda got my set up mostly done so it’s time to build lot of cool shit 😝😝

Love the comment about the door handle right at the end 🤣 the struggle is real with XD-XH handles. Love the ute man, good job

@ForrestFab

3 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Kebab haha or man, literally one of the most Australia comments ever haha but no shit I have like 2 spare door handles in the centre console haha Thanks man, cheers for the support

Keep the vids coming 🤘🏽

Great to see someone using a torque wrench.

@daveo3537

4 жыл бұрын

What's that?

Looks mint as keep up the good work bro

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man 🤘🏼🤘🏼

This thing is awesome 👌👌👌

Good job man.Looks killa.

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers man!

Falcon Oath! haha Love these utes!

Awesome mate 🇦🇺😎🤙

Looks good mate

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

thanks dude!! im loving it too aye

Awesome!

That's a TUFF 💪 ute

@ForrestFab

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! I’ll be starting my 67 xr wagon in a couple of months so you’ll have to keep and eye out for it 😜

@adamperre4852

2 жыл бұрын

@@ForrestFab will do love my 60s cars I got a VC VALIANT ute 1966

Looks mint

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

12 gauge 420 thanks man🤟🏼

I used to own a XF, I wish I still had now after seeing this vid

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

Stuff it buy another one haha

@mikeyboy2820

4 жыл бұрын

Just gotta find 1 that isn't rusted out haha

looks awesome mate, quick question did you have to relocate your springs at all for clearance ? I need to do my diff soon but looks like I wouldn't be able to shorten my diff much before the disc brake caliper would be hitting the leaf springs

@ForrestFab

3 жыл бұрын

Hi mate! Nah my springs all stayed in the same place , I took 60mm off each side and I think with that amount it all runs very close to the leafs with the convos having 3.5inch back space , and I have 12mm wheel spacers to poke them out a bit because it’s not tubbed yet, but I don’t think I’d get much more then that, i built the diff to the wheels I wanted to run, so maybe you could get something with a slightly different offset so you don’t have to take as much off the Diff

mean stance. chuuur

@ForrestFab

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers dude 🤘🏼🤘🏼

Fuck yesss. Love ya vids

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

cheers man, love how you always manage to see it first espeacially when im posting this shit at stupid hours at night haha thanks for sticking around man

@beau_xr6342

4 жыл бұрын

Forrests Fabrications just love you’re vids soo much keep it up 👍🏼

Fuck that's tuff m8

Looks mint mate. What width did you make your diff? I have some 8" convos with the 3 3/8" back spacing.

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

Hey man, I took 60mm off each side of a ef -el wagon diff, I don’t have an over all measurement sorry, and we’ll for comparison My wheels are 8.5inch wide and have 3.5inch back spacing, my tyres sit about 15-17mm off the leaf springs and they just slightly rub on the inner of the wheel tubs when it flex’s or I turn a corner hard, but I’m planning to mini tub it anyways :)

@grantjury509

4 жыл бұрын

@@ForrestFab sweet mate and what size rear tire?

Yo if you come to bendigo we should have a Barra swapped xf ute comparison

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah man once all this Covid shit pisses off I’ll be coming for a cruise over there

@justwingit7075

4 жыл бұрын

Oath bro a hole crew of xf’s would look amazing

Damn what’s the exhaust setup

Also post some cruising clips / slot of cruising clips

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s on the cards, I Wana do a bag in edit, I’m just about to do the front wheel bearings and rear brakes because I had a issue with one of the calipers but yeah, illl deff be doing that man! :)

How much shorter did you make the diff housing and did you have to move the leafs at all

@ForrestFab

6 ай бұрын

Nah dude, leaf’s stayed the same 60mm off each side of a el wagon diff

Tuff as fuck!

How’d you get her so low ?

She's looking pretty fuckin' grouse now mate! Not long now before you start bashing some steelies.

And what did you do about the axles

@ForrestFab

6 ай бұрын

Axels where aftermarket billet 28 splines, just the style that are cut to length, I let a local diff guy know how long I wanted them and he did them for me , that part is easy, once you have the housing done with the diff centre in sick a tape measure down the diff tube until it goes in where the axle does and bottoms out, measure from there to where the wheel bearings shoulders up against, that’ll give you the hard measurement of the axel length to the inside face of the bearing, then subtract about 5mm I think for memory , so the axel has clearance inside the diff centre where it slides in so that it’s not bottoming out :) Also if you are going to buy billet axels straight up you can go 31 splines for pretty much no extra cost, just change the side gears in the diff centre Also don’t even bother fuckinh around with resplined axels, they are dog shit

@junkau4822

6 ай бұрын

@@ForrestFab cheers man I’ve got a xf Ute that I’m building and just wanted to see how it was done ect

Ever gonna go bigger engine?

@ForrestFab

4 жыл бұрын

Ewi all kinda dictated buy money man haha these things go good for what they are and aren’t to bad of price but damn man I’d go nuts if I had the money to do so

Yo not sure if you will see this but what is the leaf spring set you run

@ForrestFab

3 жыл бұрын

Codmonster18 F I explained it for another bloke, I’ll copy and paste it for you man

@ForrestFab

3 жыл бұрын

Codmonster18 Luke Guerin hey dude, so I’m also running 1 1/2 blocks , I’ve just put them in when I put the convos on it But in regards to my leafs, when I got the car it was already half done by the previous owner, it looked like he had just taken one of the large leafs out so that it would sag and sit lower(not ideal at all) he may have even had them reset because they were pretty flat,this ended up causing problems for me because when he removed a leaf it made the leaf pack thinner and he just jammed a bit of rubber in the leaf spring pad (the steel cups the diff located on) to compensate, I then threw that bit of rubber in the bin when I was working on my diff one day not realising it was allowing the ubolts to still be done up all the way, once I threw the rubber out not realising what it was doing, when I did the ubolts up the spring pad and the lower shock plate touched meaning my ubolts felt tight but they weren’t actually holding the diff down which meant I had a lot of tramp because the diff was actually rolling back and forth, the car was like this for nearly 2 years and then broke almost throwing me off the road in Geelong, after I realised what had happened I brought 2 more xg full leaf packs , they were fully standard, I took one of the biggest top leaves , and trimmed it a little bit so that I could turn it upside (same way a rainbow looks in the sky ) and sit it on top of my leaf pack while they were still bolted to the car, I then took the pin out which hold the leaf pack together( this means the leafs can all fall apart so remember the order they are in) I then went a Brought 2 m10 high tensile Allen bolts (was the same size as the original leaf pin) I had some little spacers machine to space the bolts up so that it acted as a locating pin for the leaf bushing, once I had the bolts sorted I got some g clamps and compressed the factory xg leaf down on top of my leaf pack, I then grabbed another smaller leaf from the factory xg packs , turned it upside down and with another set of clamps I clamped it’s down onto of the other leaf I had just clamp down, once they are both flat put your bolt threw and do them up, some people don’t like doing this because they think it’s dodgy, it isn’t really if you do it right and it works great because pressing the factory leafs down onto your leaf pack while they are up side down forces your leaf pack to compress its self flat which makes the car lower and means you have forces pressing in both a up and down motion against each other means you have a low ride height but stiff springs that won’t tramp, you can rest your leafs just by themselves but they will be very soft and not good for anything with power, the ride will also be very bouncy I hope this helps

@justwingit7075

3 жыл бұрын

Forrests Fabrications how did you type that quick lol. Will help heaps would it matter if they new or pre used the xg ones that is

@ForrestFab

3 жыл бұрын

Codmonster18 F nah springs are spring man, used will be fine

@justwingit7075

3 жыл бұрын

Forrests Fabrications cheers bro

so how long till turbo

@ForrestFab

3 жыл бұрын

Ghostly Nosy not sure man, I’ll see what life brings in the next few months haha if I had the money I’d do it now but I don’t so I can’t haha