What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[1990new]

Cleaning up steering knuckle to paint.

What did you clean these up with? I bead blasted a set once and then painted them but it took a decent amount of time because I'm only running a 20Gal 1.8HP compressor that can't keep up.

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This is my favorite tool when it's time to clean up metal part in preparation for painting:
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Here is how I prepare the steering knuckles for painting.

1. Use old crumpled newspaper to wipe off any gooey grease (or old rags that you can throw away).
2. Separate hub from the knuckle (I use FestYboy's method) remove the bearings from the hub, remove the old disc rotor and remove the backing plate from the knuckle
3. Use an old stiff paint (or other disposable brush) to brush off as much of the caked on mixture of dirt and grease as possible.
4. Use the wire wheel to remove the remaining crud from the parts. Don't do it on a work bench.. I take mine outside on the driveway and put it on a piece of thick foam padding to prevent it from walking away. Wear a mask and safety goggles because there will be a lot of fine black dust that you dont want to breathe and you also don't want to get any pieces of wire that might come off the wheel in your eyes. I also clean the rotor and strut bolts with the wire wheel. (If you do this inside that black dust will get on every surface around).
5. For the places that I can't get to with the big wheel I use pencil wire brushes (buy these cheap from China on ebay) in my dremmel tool.
6. When all part are wire brushed, I wipe down with acetone soaked rags (be sure to wear rubber gloves or the skin on your hands will dry up and flake off). Do this outside also.. unless you want to get high on the acetone fumes.
7. Then I stuff the center with newspaper, tape off the parts I don't want to paint, hang the parts on a low dogwood tree branch and spray on a couple coats of matte black rustoleum paint and then the next day a couple of coats of black appliance epoxy paint. Then the next day I put everything back together. (I bring the parts back inside the garage and hang them there to dry between coats)

[bravekozak]

I tested almost every grease available in the market.
Esso Unirex EP-2 is the best.

Unirex EP-1 for those in Alaska.

[firebush357]

During this past week I disassembled, cleaned, painted and rebuilt a left and right steering knuckles. Added new rotors also.
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The last pictures is of a Great Blue Heron nest which is right above where I usually part one of the Festivas. Needless to say it will not be parked there again until the birds leave their nest.

In case you are wondering the left one has brown grease in it (used up the remainder of a packet) and the right one has red grease.

What did you clean these up with? I bead blasted a set once and then painted them but it took a decent amount of time because I'm only running a 20Gal 1.8HP compressor that can't keep up.

[1990new]

Steering Knuckle rebuild

During this past week I disassembled, cleaned, painted and rebuilt a left and right steering knuckles. Added new rotors also.
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The last pictures is of a Great Blue Heron nest which is right above where I usually part one of the Festivas. Needless to say it will not be parked there again until the birds leave their nest.

In case you are wondering the left one has brown grease in it (used up the remainder of a packet) and the right one has red grease.

[jawja jim]

Finally got my Federal Formoza Gio 165/65 13s installed on Pedro. They came in Friday evening, so I got to watch them sit in the shop all the holiday weekend. Nice to get the tall tires off and have my speedo correct again.

[Festiver]

I went to the local Junkyard this weekend because it was a 50% off weekend. Ended up pulling Aspire Calipers, Knuckles, Booster and Master Cylinder. I though about pulling the Rear Beam and Brakes but they had the car sitting on the mounting points for the Beam. Everything went pretty quickly because someone had already pulled the Trans out of the car so I didn't have to worry about the Axle Nuts.

These brakes will probably end up on a car that will be built for Towing small trailers and camping. My question is whether it would be worth it to go back and try to get the Rear Beam for braking purposes not lug pattern?

The rear brakes do make a big difference in my opinion

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[firebush357]

I went to the local Junkyard this weekend because it was a 50% off weekend. Ended up pulling Aspire Calipers, Knuckles, Booster and Master Cylinder. I though about pulling the Rear Beam and Brakes but they had the car sitting on the mounting points for the Beam. Everything went pretty quickly because someone had already pulled the Trans out of the car so I didn't have to worry about the Axle Nuts.

These brakes will probably end up on a car that will be built for Towing small trailers and camping. My question is whether it would be worth it to go back and try to get the Rear Beam for braking purposes not lug pattern?

[greywolf200]

Nothing better to do today, except grind and file the corners on my battery hold down bar before taking it to get chromed.
Bling bling.

Nice

[bravekozak]

Nothing better to do today, except grind and file the corners on my battery hold down bar before taking it to get chromed.
Bling bling.

[greywolf200]

I painted my Aspire calipers.
I decided to paint My Dodge Caravan calipers too!

I also started to assemble my hard fuel lines.
You really need a vice with a groove in it to firmly hold the tube while cutting.
I prefer a Ridgid #10 tubing cutter.

The other tools needed are a tube bender and a 37 degree flaring tool.

Nice, as always. Jack Byrd

[bravekozak]

I painted my Aspire calipers.
I decided to paint My Dodge Caravan calipers too!

I also started to assemble my hard fuel lines.
You really need a vice with a groove in it to firmly hold the tube while cutting.
I prefer a Ridgid #10 tubing cutter.

The other tools needed are a tube bender and a 37 degree flaring tool.

[F3BZ]

just a little project but more involved than i expected and a lot of overtime at work leaves little time to work a hobby. all new pieces from 4G. this was changed from a leaded fill pipe without flapper and a metal cap to meet US requirements.

[Greywolf]

Friends and nefarious co-conspirators, I have been away for a while. Let me tell you what I have been doing in the slack time:

1) I bought $159.oo worth of wikkid paint and supplies for the B6T
2) I went on a RAID to Harbor Freight in Memphis TN and grabbed a STUD WELDER and an Inline Sander*
3) I also grabbed another engine stand and some more jack stands
4) I realized I had a quart of Dupont Chroma Base paint that I can shoot on the white car AS I DO the dents and crap.
5) I got eight tires balanced, including four new ones that are bullet proof. The car walks right up and over the speed limit if I am not careful
6) Came to the realization that I have two hatches that have rear window de-fogging installed

(There's more that I am sure I'll remember later)

* Lifting one of the cars with a tractor and a strap bent a perfectly straight body in a shameful way. You know above the windows at the balance point? Yeah... Right there. But I also knew that to pull out the dents in the under door sills I had to have that thing. On several of the cars I could see that someone had bent the crap out of the sills by either letting the cars slip of the jack stands, or lifting them with a forklift or some damned thing... Outboard of the jacking points there are huge dents in the body

I can pull them out now without drilling holes, this is a normally inaccessible area.

The next couple of weeks are going to be a learning experience that I will shoot video of (DOH! Go figure...)

The dent gun (stud welder) was an investment of $99.oo that I have already tried and it is seriously easy to use!


SHOOTING PAINT is a trip, and I hope to post some videos here from a high-end paint company (House of Kolor), not because I want you to spend a whole crapload of money on their products, but because what they teach you in their instructional vids can be applied to any kind of paint that you spray

~ I'm guessing AdvanceDynamix has already been there and done that...




~Wolf out

[Robalan]

New tires and wheel alignment, removed rear seat braces.

Gonna look for some cardboard to make templates to cover the open metal in the boot.


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[TorqueEffect]

Waterpump replaced, and thankfully no leaks or timing issues.
Also my Achilles 122s were delivered today. Hope to get those installed withing the next week.

Now time for some burnouts! :p