What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[bravekozak]

Installed the clutch lever return spring. No noise when you push down the clutch. I do not miss that spring creaking noise. $1.43 + shipping. I highly recommend this inexpensive replacement. I also installed my dark grey lock knobs. Nice. They will rarely be touched now that I have power locks.

[TorqueEffect]

Ordered the stuff to convert to hood struts. 8)

Peeled the heat-shield off the manifold.

Tried to fight the downpipe bolts, but can't get enough leverage. Just going to remove the manifold from the engine, and fight with em in a vice.

[muleskinner]

Helped Eddie today with his Festy.
It runs fine until he has to accelerate up hills or just speeding up. It wanted to cut out like it was running out of gas or something.
Well, after going through some "process of elimination" it came down to being the vane airflow meter. It was not working properly. We used one I pulled from a JY and it made it run worse. We looked at the contacts and they were corroded bad. So we took the meter out of my parts car Red, which I knew worked, and ta-da!! His car runs great now.

[TorqueEffect]

Went ahead and decided to put the new lower control arms on.

Both boxes had the same part number on it, but after I put 1 new control arm on, I opened the box for the other, and completely wrong control arm was in it.

I ordered these at the beginning of last month so I have no idea if Rockauto will reimburse me, or send me the proper one. I blame Dorman, not Rockauto, because the part number was right, but the part inside the box was not. Why the flipping hell can't Dorman ever put the proper parts in the proper boxes? This happens all the time at Autozone with wrong parts being in the wrong boxes, and most of those parts that happen like that are Dorman. I know I will never buy anything Dorman again, I gave them one shot and they failed.

So right now the Festy sits with 1 new control arm, and one old one with a shot ball-joint. I know the passenger side one was a complete mess after I pulled it out, ball-joint flopping all over the place.

I am going to need to get some lock-tite for the control arm to framebolt, since I tried tightening it down, and one the bolt reaches a certain point, it pops back and is loose again, almost as if the threads in the nut are stripped. I don't see why they would, the bolt came out pretty easy, I didn't have to use allot of force at all.

[TorqueEffect]

Went ahead and ordered a new manual downpipe from rockauto. These things are a bit pricey for just a pipe.

[DrMaxwellEdison]

I replaced the alternator belt, which got rid of the squealing it was doing. Taking my girlfriend out in it in a little bit to teach her driving stick shift, so I finally get to prove her dad wrong.... Lets just say I can be a patient person...

[BlackHeart]

I'll get some pics up - but I have redone the headliner, door panels, and back deck using charcoal speaker carpet and it looks awesome. Also did the visors. Pulled my car out of the stickers thinking it was going to be a head gasket - a whole rebuilt engine, all new struts and bushings - the thing is like on rails and getting a solid 38mpg when I'm driving mad. love my festies. this is my fourth!

[WTFestiva]

Stuck in como...

WTFestiva - Rally prepped bpstiva

[WTFestiva]

My brother had a bad experience trying to get an xr2 transmission. Now sick I'm como. Don't go to a1 automotive

WTFestiva - Rally prepped bpstiva

[Team Lightning]

All we had to do to mine was change the inner tie rods.(We used mine off the Festiva unit). I see no reason that the power steering unit wouldn't swap in just as easy with the only addition of work being the hoses and pump.

[TorqueEffect]

Yesterday we installed the Aspire rack I bought from loknlode on my silver 90. I was thinking that the bushings were bad in the original rack which has 330,000+ miles on it.
When we removed the inner tie rods, we found the left one had loosened about 5mm. That was my issue. Still installed the Aspire rack as it was lower miles than mine.
Today I got it aligned and it drives a LOT better. Oh, we did use red loctite on the inner tie rods and the pin which had slipped out enough that it let the inner turn and loosen.

I'd love to see a power steering setup from an Aspire transplanted into a Festy. I wonder if that is as easy as plug an play, or with minimal modifications.

[defprun]

Ahhh

[Team Lightning]

The problem is we couldn't see it was loose behind the cover/bellows. It wasn't until we removed it that we saw it was loose.

[defprun]

I should double check mine I did not use loctite

[Team Lightning]

Yesterday we installed the Aspire rack I bought from loknlode on my silver 90. I was thinking that the bushings were bad in the original rack which has 330,000+ miles on it.
When we removed the inner tie rods, we found the left one had loosened about 5mm. That was my issue. Still installed the Aspire rack as it was lower miles than mine.
Today I got it aligned and it drives a LOT better. Oh, we did use red loctite on the inner tie rods and the pin which had slipped out enough that it let the inner turn and loosen.