Waxed it yesterday, today I pulled a head off a Miata at PAP, it's in great shape and only cost $37.
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flex honed my b6, cleaned pistons once more, installed crank and pistons and rings, going good
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On Friday I changed out the fuel pressure regulator on my 93 automatic. Drove it to Huntsville AL and back. Got 25 mpg the whole way there and back. Joy.
youtube.com/neanderpaul 88 festiva LX w/BP G25 MR 5 speed waiting for wiring- 93 Festiva GL auto w/ air, waiting for B6t/G4A-HL - 98 Nissan Quest - 02 Mazda protege 5 wife's DD
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Finished everything on Danny's motor except swapping the motor mount bracket. Barely room to get to the bolt under the intake on a B3/early B6, the later B6 has the heater pipe on the intake even lower, so there was no way I could get a socket on it. Gonna have to use one of my beefy box wrenches on it and hit with a hammer. Ha! Lol.No festiva for me ATM...
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Had another no start scare with the girlfriends white 92 GL. It happened to be an easy fix. Battery died because the brake light switch was left closed when the pedal's brake light switch pad slipped again. Dead battery but swapped in another for now, fixed the pad to turn off the brake lights.
On another note, I'm driving my Festiva again for the first time in what feels like months. $10 for just under a half tank. She missed me-Zack
Blue '93 GL Auto: White 13" 5 Point Wheels, Full LED Conversion, and an 8" Sub
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I got the 626 multifunction switch spliced into the aspire's wiring harness, also hooked up the horn/airbag to the aspires sockets, hopefully I got it right, I'll plug it in tomorrow and see what happens.
also took my minivan in for a front end alignment, it needed it bad since I changed the ball joint. The steering pump is still whining a little bit, not nearly as bad as before, I don't remember hearing it before so I think something is wrong with it, but I don't know what, the haynes manual is MIA for that vehicle.Last edited by zoom zoom; 01-09-2012, 02:46 PM.2008 Kia Rio- new beater
1987 F-150- revived and CLEAN!!!
1987 Suzuki Dual Sport- fun beater bike
1993 Festiva- Fiona, DD
1997 Aspire- Peaspire, Refurb'd, sold
1997 Aspire- Babyspire, DD
1994 Aspire - Project Kiazord
1994 Aspire- Crustyspire, RIP
"If it moves, grease it, if it don't, paint it, and if it ain't broke don't fix it!"
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Think I'll throw on a new head gasket. Pretty sure that's what's netting me ~26 mpg. Lack of compression.
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^ Have you done a compression test? Unless you are dealing with a blown gasket between cylinders (not common but possible on these cars) then you would likely be getting water in the oil, or vice versa. At any rate, I'd do a compression test before tearing into anything. If your theory is correct then two adjacent cylinders should be equally low.No festiva for me ATM...
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Originally posted by htchbck View PostFinished building Danny's steering knuckles with new bearing and rotors today.
1963 Fairlane - future NSS drag car
1965 Mustang Coupe - A-code car, restoring for/with my son
1973 F100 longbed - only 22k original miles, 360/auto, disk, PS/PB dealer in dash A/C
1996 Sonoma X-cab - son's DD
2002 Grand Prix - daughter's DD
2003 Sport Trac - 180k, 130k on replaced motor with new timing chains - F/S soon.
2005 Accord - wife's DD
2008 Mountaineer - step daughter's DD
2015 F150 SCrew - DD
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Originally posted by Larry Hampton View PostIf you rebuild a set of knuckles, that some other knucklehead screwed up the shims on, is there a way to rebuild them with new shims and get it right?No festiva for me ATM...
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