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thanks guys........fatboy, where are you located?......my father in law is a fitter&turner/bolier maker so I could either take a NOS one and ask hime to ask a fabricator friend or if fatboy is too far away, i could try to cut the good one out and do that and its mirror, assuming there's a difference (the rare spares repro looks to b all of 2 folds).  Once we can find a fabricator who can actually do it, i'll ask him to make plenty!
cheers
Ute-opia

Ken is right but could someone put me out of my misery and instruct me on how to upload photos to paint a backdrop for my queries......I can promise you, the threads will be opened and closed
thanks
Ute-opia

spot on, Ken!  (but would you be able to teach me how to upload the photo which pinpoints the section?)

thanks Ute-opia

sorry, but i'll phrase it differently and hopefully clarify (and i'm still trying to find the authoritative source of subframe member names), i'm after the Front Bracket Assembly "Subframe Member" for the Rear Spring Hanger and not the Rear Bracket Assembly for the Rear Spring Hanger.  Hope that all made sense.  If someone could teach me how to attach a photo I could draw a red circle around the piece i'm after since the Insert Image icon only adds html tags of and I can't find the way to upload or attach the photo?
thanks again and sorry to be a pain in the butt
Ute-opia

Hi!  I was told by my mechanic that I needed to replace my LH inner sill but went to rare spares and the repro piece doesn't have the circles pressed into it.  Would anyone know if there is a more authentic repro available on a retail basis, or should I cut mine out and take it to a fabricator for a one-off?
thanks very much
Ute-opia

g'day,
My FC Ute has a badly rusted one of these and no-one seems to fabricate a replacement section and it was mentioned that these only rusted on utes, so I should look to cut one out from a sedan or wagon donor subframe.  Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of a good one?
much appreciated
Ute-opia

good on you Ken.  Thanks for answering and hope to see you up Hanging Rock way next weekend!

Ute-opia

g'day experts......spoke to Waddintons and AlGeo(?) about this and neither one fabricates a replacement member and one of them (can't remember which?) suggested cutting out a good one from a donor subframe.  Any suggestions?  Happy to go either way if someone knows of a fabrcated member or has a donor subframe that doesn't mind the angle-grinder?

thanks heaps,
Ute-opia

thanks for all of the info! 
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g'day....i have an EK ute which had a motor in it that was buggered, engine number starts with 'L'....I bought another gray and transferred all of the bits, went to put it back in, only to notice that the plates on the engines which take the motor mount are different.....the other engine number starts with 'J'. 
On the 'L' engine, the bolts that go up through the plate are wider apart than the bolts that go down, and on the 'J' engine the bolts that go up through the plate are the same width as the one that go down, but because the 'L' engine plate points forward and the 'J' motor plate points to the rear, the holes into the member in the engine bay are 2" apart.  Hope that was understandable.  Any idea what is the best course of action to deal with this?  Swaps the plates over?, drill new holes in the engine bay member?, make a plate to span the 2"?

thanks if anyone has run across this one before.
Howie McQuarrie
040404-44-33
howie@regcap.com

hi, I'm after a gray motor and transmission that was running 'OK' when it was taken out...doesn't need dist, manifolds, etc, but if easier that's fine.  also would like to collect within cooee of port melbourne.

i don't check this all of the time so please text me if you have one and the asking price
thanks very much
Howie McQuarrie
040404-44-33

Hi!

I need to replace the front & back shock on my 110% original FB ute......(no disrepect to the 350 Chevs)....does the club have a recommendadtion for those who want to slide under their car and see as close to what a mechanic in 1960 would have looked up at?
thanks very much
Howie McQuarrie
040404-44-33

Hi all.....this is a strange one.....I'm trying to contact YOYO1330 from Mildura as he was selling a heap of FC Ute parts from a project that looked like it wasn't going ahead.....I've replied to his/her thread, PM'd, and emailed.  Does anyone know this member and could you slip him/her a message to contact me please.  I'm not precious at all about my real identity (so long as people stop saying that I have never been seen in the same room as George Clooney)

thanks very much
Howie McQuarrie
040404-44-33
howie@regcap.com

thanks for the tip!  talked to Hoppers Stoppers (Ken's old stomping ground) and thy said they could fix me up!  :  )

hi!  i'm a bit slow off the mark, but if the tailgate skin and front guards are still there, i would like to buy them.
thank you
Howie
040404-44-33
howie@mquarrie.org

g'day, my clutch master cyclinder is on its way out and i'd like to just rebuild it and keep my original housing.....Rare Spares don't sell rebuild kits and only have new units for $102 but I'd hate to buy the whole unit just for the seals.....what does everyoneelse do?
thanks very much!
Howie McQuarrie
040404-44-33
howie@mcquarrie.org

hi!  i'd lik to buy it! are you in and around Melbourne?.....i'm in Port Melbourne.
thanks Howie McQuarrie
040404-44-33

thanks FE 4 Me!  got it, and hope to win them
cheers
Howie

Hi!  looking for an FC ute bumper which will be rechromed straight away (i have some 'OK' overriders so if it comes without, all good) and bonnet letters with pins....happy to buy a letter here and there until i have the lot.
i don't log on much so if possible, please text me on 040404-44-33
thank you
Howie McQuarrie

Hi,
I'm after a list of colours for all of the bits on a gray motor and where i might find decals for oil batch, breather cap, etc.....had one of these yonks ago but have misplaced it......possibly listed on the site but cannot find it?
many thanks
Howie McQuarrie
040404-44-33