The Resurrection of a BA Falcon EP1

[@bossdog1480]

Mate, my hat's off to you doing that with just one arm.

[@axelfoley1768]

Dude, you're an inspiration. I was too ignorant to fix anything on my car, but now I'm gonna give it a go, bc I surely don't wish to pay a ripoff.

[@MrCole27au]

Mate total props for doing more with one arm than I can do with both, Nice tutorial, thanks.

[@KANGARAIDER]

Just got a 2004 BA Fairmont for my first project car. Your video was very helpful! Cheers!

[@vlt9psi]

Glad it helped!

[@joelmichealrecchia2883]

The most Australian looking ford falcon ever.

[@Pendaws]

With your ramps for the front, you REALLY need to put a vertical piece of wood at the front just in case your car slips a little forward. You wouldn't want to be under the car if it tries to go forward. Job well done anyway matey. :)

[@TLE1977A]

Mate spent plenty of time working in my b series wagons and its fiddly as with 2 hands! Top job!

[@neilbeni7744]

You make the best vids bro really appreciated 👊😁

[@SoreSmokingMariachi]

Good job! Nice car

[@SteveMack]

...Wish I'd known you were local - I paid some ripoff garage last month $600+ to do mine!!

[@vlt9psi]

Woweeee thats crazy man 😲

[@SteveMack]

@@vlt9psi Tell me about it! - KENMORE.

[@EnviXR81]

Love it mate!

[@RypienGT]

Are those thongs approved by Workplace Health and Safety?

[@vlt9psi]

RypienGT absolutely

[@cunklemick]

They look like double pluggers so they should be ok.........

[@mikey3816]

Good for 50.000

[@JohnConstatine-yk1nd]

Where did u put the jack on the back to jack up

[@bellahpetersen1733]

I love how you used some stuff from Bunnings 😂😂😂keep up the good work mate

[@andrewloye7575]

Impressive work there Scott. Wondering if you do any mechanical work for people? I need my diff bushes and centre tail shar bearing done. I am in south Brisbane. Keep up the top videos mate.

[@conservativesniperhunter7439]

Great job Scotty . Fuck man if I lived near ya I’d pay ya to work on my 2004 BA XR6, I reckon you better that most of the bodgie mechanics I’ve been to in the past 20 years here in NSW.

[@RypienGT]

What wreckers was that?

[@vlt9psi]

RypienGT GDM wreckers, coopers plains

[@747fa]

Great video, mate! I suppose you know your right rear suspension bump stop is missing or stuck in the lower frame?

[@Michaelkayslay]

Does the BA have the same handbrake cover/skin and gear stick/knob/selector as the BF? I have a BF and my skin/gearknob is broken and looks shit. Hoping to find one at pick a part

[@skinwalkerskating9068]

Hey Scott... Awesome vid mate - i've gotta do my drive shaft bearing tomorrow. I've done my research and other vids have said to take out the three bolts at the front of the shaft near the gear box but in your's you just slide the shaft out of the btr.... Any drama's getting it back into the gear box ?

[@kalvin.6991]

Can you change the seat height in a 2004 BA XT Ford Falcon? Can't find answers anywhere online.

[@bradfield1175]

Yeah there's a tab/switch on the plastic on the side of the seat near the door panels

[@bradfield1175]

Move up or down.

[@user-sp5bn6ye8y]

He forgot to say this (and its CRITICAL) : You MUST mark the bolts of the tailshaft where it meets the diff (same for the front). Both ends MUST be marked as its balanced and needs to be put back in the order it came off.

[@iamasmurf1122]

No it does not i have removed heaps of driveshafts never had an issue with it being balanced if put back some other way, how can the transmission yoke and rear diff yoke be unbalanced , how does the drive shaft strangely lose its balance the drive shaft is balanced not the yokes on the end

[@PhillipMikeHunt]

@@iamasmurf1122 It's all balanced on the vehicle with these falcons.

[@jaycobmiller1596]

My ba is makes a grinding noise when i drive straight and when i turn left or straight it maked a loud grinding noise

[@happymanasfksubaru2846]

Check that the ball joint have not fallen down on the rota

[@kostakaramanlidis3174]

hey what suspension you running on her?

[@bossdog1480]

You didn't show us how you seperated the shaft.

[@mydogzty]

fuck bro took me awhile too relize your doing this wiht one arm! deinfitly makes me even more motivated beign a apprentice emechanic at 23, about to order and 42 inch maxim toolbox soon. Im at Volkwagonw th Bayford. Tried spray paitning for a year wasn't working out. Great video I love watching the odd things get done in cars ont he streets of australia. im from Melbourne owna Vl calais and vs s pac wa s agertag but put a t5 in it.

[@vlt9psi]

mydogzty good stuff man, good to hear 👌

[@TCFan30]

Doesn't the tail shaft have to be properly balanced when you refitted the new CB? The door lock actuators are a common prob because like most parts, manfactured o'seas in shitty countries (Mexico namely here). BA of that age (same goes for BFs and AUs) would require new sway bar rubbers and bushes, engine mounts and other minor front end susp. work in due course.

[@Mango_McPoo]

but where does the money and the fit GF come from?!!!!

[@krupt79]

My mechanic said the diff and everything has to come out to do the center bearing...🤬

[@vlt9psi]

Negative 😖

[@iamasmurf1122]

Are you sure your mechanic wasnt talking about the centre bearing inside your differential ?

[@meisammozafari2012]

what about you tail shaft. you have to balance it

[@MrKrueger88]

No need to balance the trailshaft when you've only replaced the uni as they are well machined and accurate in weight and balance to the old one .

[@yungdraco9855]

I just bought this car yesterday off ur brother I think

[@63Arnast]

Nice but it would have been better if you actually showed you doing the stuff instead of the before and after shoots

[@mikey3816]

Supercheap/shit stands are no good mate been a recall on them blue ones

[@iamasmurf1122]

Why not buy some proper ramps, steel ramps have a stop so when you drive up on them the front wheels stop before you go over the front of them, ramps are not expensive i have myself driven cars up on ramps a lot and you can fuck up on them big time you want to be safe in future dont play around with cars as if its all a big joke

[@yusuf.alajnabi]

Unsafe and stupid buy proper ramps and those stands are not good buy some Good ones you can't put a price on safety.

[@MrKrueger88]

Those ramps are not unsafe , they cannot collapse and the jack stands are rated at 1.5 tons . Stop the unnecessary trolling and criticism .

[@yusuf.alajnabi]

@@MrKrueger88 I'm not trolling and those ramps are definitely not safe. And you said the safe working load for the jack stands is 1.5 ton well guess what, the car's tare weight is more then that. I have been lifting and supporting vehicles for 17 years. And I only comment because I have seen idiots jack up cars unsafely and I have seen cars and trucks come off the jack and stands because of stupidity or people just don't know what they are doing. Did you know that 19 mechanics across Australia die or get seriously injured because of actions like this. Don't challenge me on something I know a lot about.

[@MrKrueger88]

@@yusuf.alajnabi And I've worked in that trade for over 25 years . Go and read up on the compressive strength of timber and you'll see it's plenty strong enough to take a car . And you should know those stands cannot be sold in Australia without passing approved safety regs . As for weight of the car , yes it's over 1.5 tons but they support the rear end only !! We didn't see if the car was additionally propped up or stabilised by the way but as the guy only had one arm you can bet he wasn't wresting the tailshaft out with two . Idiots that only Jack their car up with one Jack are just that , idiots ... But this guy wasn't being stupid or reckless .

[@Olbucko]

If the car weighs 2 tons, (assuming equal weight distribution), 2 stands placed at one end of the car only have to support 1 ton between them, each stand would be only lifting 1/2 ton. Stands rated at 1 1/2 tons would be perfectly safe.