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Well here's the pictures as of now.
Now for the exciting story. I left my house after coming back from the 160 miles round trip from my parent for the load of engine parts and my tow bar to tow the car home from Mulvane. Got to my house unloaded and headed out at 6:30 ish. Big wreck on the 35 N to Mulvane so they detoured us up the 81 to the 53 wich is the road Mulvane is on. Meet up with him at a set of railroad tracks by the toal booths. From there he took me to his house. He's said your in for a big surprise, i said I'm ready. He opened his garage.....i was like "oh damn" parts disassembled everywhere in the car and outside of the car. The BP was beautiful, clean and neat, everything intact. I also received a full disc brake setup from the same car the half shafts from the passenger side G series trans, a b3 partially taken apart. 14" mazda wheels with some decent tires, protege p/s setup minus the rack and pinion, fuel lines and brake lines from the protege, brake booster, resivoir, and MC. So we filled the truck up, and attached the car to the dolly.
We wrote "in tow" on the back in aluminum tape for i didn't have a trailing light setup, and there was no way to make the tail lights work without alot of fabbing. So i left his house, 12:30am at this time...getting late.
Well first turn we take out of this place my wife sees sparks from the passenger tire but they went away. So i proceed on i get no more than 3 miles from his house making a wrong turn on the k-15 south. My wife says OMG there are sparks everywhere. So i slam on the brakes and pull it over. Whell was on fire!! Rotor cherry red probably 700 degrees or more! I NEED WATER! She hands me a cup of coke from McDonalds and a couple water bottles. Got the fire out and the rotor started to cool. Wheel was cambered in like 3" though it was gonna snap off..that bad. So look at my tool supply...no BJ seperator but the bare essentials to take off all the bolts. No lug nuts for the front spindles on the protege, non in the car. Disconnect the tow bar and head toward Derby to the Wal mart, got and hoodie, and some food, a hammer, a punch. Returned to the sight to try to fix it. Got the tie rod end off with just the hammer and the LCA came off with the punch and hammer. Switched over the the spindles. The protege LX spindle will not fit the lca is to low and the BJ mount is lower too, only the one of the two bolt holes allign to the strut assembly.
I head in search for a hotel its 2am now. Back in Derby going through contrustion zone got pulled over by local police. Great!! He lets me go and gives me direction to the hotel and autozone/oreillys'. Econo lodge had cheaper rooms so i slept there for the rest of the morning.
Overslept till 9am got up and headed for a parts in derby mainly for lug nut so i could limp it back to his house or somewhere safer than the side of the road. Picked up a set a 20 spline drive tuner lugs and a BJ seperator just incase. Back to the site. Bolted on the wheel fits nice, i like the look alot. Put it foward 10 feet, clunk, the other side goes out! F***, i limp it to a dirt road, thing almost rips off now. At this point I'm po'd, old lady says why don't we just rent a 2 wheel dolly. I thought to myself, "Wes how come you didn't of that" Then i smile at my wfie and have to say, "What a great idea!" This guys stops and asks if we need help, this is when i picked up the wheel bearing which had been on my car is now lying on the ground. I sadi no don't need help but can to direct us to the nearest U-haul.
So we're heading to U-haul. It was right next to where i went to autozone :x
The guy didn't have a tow dolly at his location but found one in south Witchita that did, great can i have it. Yes you may. Knowing that U-haul wouldn't let a customer tow anything with a 4cyl truck i lied and said it was a 4.3 vortec. Reserved! I head over to O'reillys and pick up a trailer 4 pin light kit some windshield mouldings i saw that would fit a festiva and some small bolts to go in the bottom hole of the strut assembly. Come out to the truck which had been left running and check gages light came on. Water temp was maxed-out 260 degrees...dammit! Fried the relay...walk back into O'reilly's for new relay and rewired the electric convertion setup. More time wasted. Make it to the other u-haul location, and hooked up and pay no problems what-so-ever. Look at my cell...1pm OMG i have to be in work at 4pm. So i called the 1800 number and called off.
Back to the site.....even though the wheels where both cambered in like 3" and toed in 3" i pushed it on the dolly. Clutch smoking, chuggin up and down hills i made it back home.
These are the only picture i have will get more tommorrow when i finished the rake swap so i can roll it around in my driveway.
While i was on my trip i saw 4 festivas, 2 white ones, his green one, and a teal one.
Sorry if the spelling is bad, and i have typos...I'm a little exhausted, tired, stinky, but happy I have "NUMBER 3" its new name
Now for the exciting story. I left my house after coming back from the 160 miles round trip from my parent for the load of engine parts and my tow bar to tow the car home from Mulvane. Got to my house unloaded and headed out at 6:30 ish. Big wreck on the 35 N to Mulvane so they detoured us up the 81 to the 53 wich is the road Mulvane is on. Meet up with him at a set of railroad tracks by the toal booths. From there he took me to his house. He's said your in for a big surprise, i said I'm ready. He opened his garage.....i was like "oh damn" parts disassembled everywhere in the car and outside of the car. The BP was beautiful, clean and neat, everything intact. I also received a full disc brake setup from the same car the half shafts from the passenger side G series trans, a b3 partially taken apart. 14" mazda wheels with some decent tires, protege p/s setup minus the rack and pinion, fuel lines and brake lines from the protege, brake booster, resivoir, and MC. So we filled the truck up, and attached the car to the dolly.
We wrote "in tow" on the back in aluminum tape for i didn't have a trailing light setup, and there was no way to make the tail lights work without alot of fabbing. So i left his house, 12:30am at this time...getting late.
Well first turn we take out of this place my wife sees sparks from the passenger tire but they went away. So i proceed on i get no more than 3 miles from his house making a wrong turn on the k-15 south. My wife says OMG there are sparks everywhere. So i slam on the brakes and pull it over. Whell was on fire!! Rotor cherry red probably 700 degrees or more! I NEED WATER! She hands me a cup of coke from McDonalds and a couple water bottles. Got the fire out and the rotor started to cool. Wheel was cambered in like 3" though it was gonna snap off..that bad. So look at my tool supply...no BJ seperator but the bare essentials to take off all the bolts. No lug nuts for the front spindles on the protege, non in the car. Disconnect the tow bar and head toward Derby to the Wal mart, got and hoodie, and some food, a hammer, a punch. Returned to the sight to try to fix it. Got the tie rod end off with just the hammer and the LCA came off with the punch and hammer. Switched over the the spindles. The protege LX spindle will not fit the lca is to low and the BJ mount is lower too, only the one of the two bolt holes allign to the strut assembly.
I head in search for a hotel its 2am now. Back in Derby going through contrustion zone got pulled over by local police. Great!! He lets me go and gives me direction to the hotel and autozone/oreillys'. Econo lodge had cheaper rooms so i slept there for the rest of the morning.
Overslept till 9am got up and headed for a parts in derby mainly for lug nut so i could limp it back to his house or somewhere safer than the side of the road. Picked up a set a 20 spline drive tuner lugs and a BJ seperator just incase. Back to the site. Bolted on the wheel fits nice, i like the look alot. Put it foward 10 feet, clunk, the other side goes out! F***, i limp it to a dirt road, thing almost rips off now. At this point I'm po'd, old lady says why don't we just rent a 2 wheel dolly. I thought to myself, "Wes how come you didn't of that" Then i smile at my wfie and have to say, "What a great idea!" This guys stops and asks if we need help, this is when i picked up the wheel bearing which had been on my car is now lying on the ground. I sadi no don't need help but can to direct us to the nearest U-haul.
So we're heading to U-haul. It was right next to where i went to autozone :x
The guy didn't have a tow dolly at his location but found one in south Witchita that did, great can i have it. Yes you may. Knowing that U-haul wouldn't let a customer tow anything with a 4cyl truck i lied and said it was a 4.3 vortec. Reserved! I head over to O'reillys and pick up a trailer 4 pin light kit some windshield mouldings i saw that would fit a festiva and some small bolts to go in the bottom hole of the strut assembly. Come out to the truck which had been left running and check gages light came on. Water temp was maxed-out 260 degrees...dammit! Fried the relay...walk back into O'reilly's for new relay and rewired the electric convertion setup. More time wasted. Make it to the other u-haul location, and hooked up and pay no problems what-so-ever. Look at my cell...1pm OMG i have to be in work at 4pm. So i called the 1800 number and called off.
Back to the site.....even though the wheels where both cambered in like 3" and toed in 3" i pushed it on the dolly. Clutch smoking, chuggin up and down hills i made it back home.
These are the only picture i have will get more tommorrow when i finished the rake swap so i can roll it around in my driveway.
While i was on my trip i saw 4 festivas, 2 white ones, his green one, and a teal one.
Sorry if the spelling is bad, and i have typos...I'm a little exhausted, tired, stinky, but happy I have "NUMBER 3" its new name
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