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"pimped out with obscurity" you have a way with words!

Those of you that have a two piece driveshaft with u-joints ( no guibo) how did you align it?

Thanks, the ones that I have found online so far all have a amber strip on the outer side, the ones on my car don't have that. Do you know of a good source with a wide variation for these?

What year Silverado headlights did Rob use for ihis custom nose for the XR?

Turned out to be a broken starter motor so that the armature extend the gear further out that normal into the fly wheel!

Thanks

How do you all have your clutch set to? I have the DG adjuster. new clutch, pp and t-5.

I've since posted a video on the Facebook Merkur Club group, check it out!

Fired it up on jack stands and have a not nice noise just above idle seemingly coming from the starter area. New flywheel, clutch, pressure plate, pilot bearing, throw out bearing.
Any thoughts? I’ll tried to post a video but the site doesn’t like the .mov file on my phone!

I would still have my Scorpio if it had a manual gearbox instead of that POS A4ld. If you are going to do all this work consider upgrading to a T-5!

You could do what I and many other have done. Remove the stock air box, and pipe the intake through the sheet metal into the space in front of the wheel well - there is room there for a good sized K&N type cone filter. Works great and sounds good too!

What length and shape is the handle?

What length, style etc handle are being used for a T-5 into a XR4? and why do you like it?

I finally got a loaner pilot bearing puller from Advance Auto,but still took some effort to get it in there solid enough to pull the bearing.

Thanks to all for your help!

When I first purchased my '86 XR I thought that it seemed to stop on its "nose" since then I've made a few mods to improve braking, but the first was the most significant and one that I would recommend for all! Here are my mods: 1. Upgrade the rear brakes to discs and bypass or gut the pro...