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  • Festiver
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    Yesterday unseized my handbrake levers and repacked my rear bearings have some weird pitting the shoes but they still work so they're staying in

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  • eurotiva
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    Drove it...

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  • 1990new
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    Today I cleaned up a throttle body that I had pulled from a 93 at the junk yard earlier this summer.
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  • ryanprins13
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    Originally posted by Justinstees View Post
    Unfortunately some asshole rear ended mine. So i looked at it being its beautiful self ( on the good side)
    That sucks, were your hurt and are you buying another?

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  • Justinstees
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    Unfortunately some asshole rear ended mine. So i looked at it being its beautiful self ( on the good side)

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  • F3BZ
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    my OCD took over again. put a new wash bottle in from 4G in the X but it just didn't look right all nice and white in a grungy wheelhouse sooo. days later. now that's better. i'm taking sort of a "Christine" approach to the refurb on this car. just sprayed 1/2 the wheel well. gotta take out the strut to finish it right.
    i always liked body color wheel wells rather than black. it highlites the other underbody bits and hardware which i find more beauty in than even the nicest polished fender or hood. bummer that i had to cover it up with the splash shield.



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  • Greywolf
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    I'm re-thinking my options. What was going to be a donor car is now looking like a better chassis than the one I bought yesterday (YEP! Bagged it...).

    The one I got yesterday is in worse shape than I realized, and it will be next weekend before it leaves the woods. Front tire doesn't hold air, the damage to the roof is minimal, but something stabbed right into the cowl in front of the windshield lower edge. It was hidden by the pile of leaves on it.

    There is also no ignition key for it, although the title papers are clear and in my safe. This means I have to go out there a couple times this week not least of which to remove the ignition lock so that the steering wheel can be turned...

    But yesterday was a fabulous success! I now have the MX3 in the drive, and it cleaned up really well. Got two dents to fix, and it needs me to shoot a new skin of paint on it - I'm thinking a shade of emerald green that almost resembles Heineken bottle glass. I can probably just chuck the hood and slap another one on - since the underhood supports are separated and the dent on it is in a bad place. The dented fender almost looks like I can pop it with a heat gun. It will need the seats re-done, and dark green velvet plush is my first choice (the color of money).

    Engine turned out to be a 16V DOHC 1600 non-turbo B6-D, rated 107HP.

    The "BENTLEY" (because it's BENTLY and BROKELY) is a complete machine, and I can use every bit of that on the other red car I already have here.

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  • ericsmith32
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    Pulled the 97's master cylinder Friday just need find the time to install. It sure does freak people out though when I tap the brakes twice. Drove it almost 100 miles this week and probably need another week for my hearing to recover. Actually had a offer to buy it also.. as rusty as it is I think he needed new glasses.

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  • fezzy
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    It's not stealing GW, it's a form of "rescuing" !

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  • Greywolf
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    48 hours to go, and then I'll bring home the last of four Festiva's from a collection who's owner passed away at the end of last year. But the bonus car in the mix is an MX3 that I actually feel like I am stealing...

    The property was sold to a next door neighbor who has absolutely no interest or respect for anything smaller than an F-250 truck! When he quoted me $300.oo for both of these cars ($150 EACH), the hardest thing on earth for me to do was to just shut my mouth, think about it, and say:

    "Yes Sir!"



    When someone is so prejudiced against a particular car that they under-sell it, that is the time to say "I'll take that, got anymore?" :highly_amused:

    By this time Sunday - I will have seven cars & trucks, and a Ranger chassis, a trailer, two of the cars run and drive, one car and one truck are highly modified, and the MX3 just might fire off with very little work at all.

    ~Not bad going, considering last year at this time I had no running wheels at all.

    Since January of this year (2016) when I decided that no matter what, I had to drive SOMETHING - I have turned things around 200%.

    What's funny? The looks on peoples faces when I tell them I rarely spend more than twenty bucks a month on fuel...


    True happiness is running 75 MPH with the A/C on full blast, carrying more stuff than most people can in a BIG car
    ~ And not having to park it because you can't afford to fill it up again!
    Last edited by Greywolf; 11-04-2016, 08:53 PM.

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  • fastivaca
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    ...and finished getting the "new to me" winter tires ready for the season. Wheels were repainted and rebalanced (took the weights off to paint the wheels). Cleaned up a set of center caps after picking the best four. I picked these up at PnP last spring... they're Hankook i-Pike RC01 155-80R13 studded tires. $80.00 on rims fo all four with lots of life left in them.



    It's 18°C (64°F) here today so I'll be waiting a bit to install them.

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  • fastivaca
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    Got the oil catch can mounted....



    Now to sort through this box of hoses to hook everything up...

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  • WTFestiva
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    I Painted the wheels red for Spud.
    Then I replaced the Alternator.
    Then I kept having trouble with the rear left drum leaking fluid.
    And today I will likely make a post about that...
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  • mikemounlio
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    Today i will push Lucifer even further away from my garage then it is now. I have to pressure wash my buggy so the car needs to move. Gotta hurry up and get that buggy cash so i can ship my new car here and put the spare trans in Lucifer!

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  • fezzy
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    Thermo Fan melted

    I was driving my 90 year old father around the other day helping out with his errands, when I hear a "clang" noise under the hood.
    Thought, "oh no, fan belt". Checked everything, seemed fine, kept driving.
    5 hours later I smell that smell that comes from wires burning, luckily we got home when this happened. Checked everything again, saw some wires were over heated, removed battery terminal and went to work to try to sort this out.
    Oxygen Sensor connecting wire was burnt, Temperature switch wires slightly hot and a few warm wires, but nothing obvious when tracing back looking for the cause.
    Put it all back together and went home. Got home and took another look and noticed the thermo fan blade was on a slight bend.
    Got the torch and then saw the cause.
    Initially the plastics on the thermo fan disintegrated, causing the fan blade to not spin, causing intermittently electric motor heat to the point of heating up the wire looms.
    Removed the thermo fan, as it had by this time melted from the heat of a electric motor not being able to spin when the switch came On.

    Lucky,

    Replaced thermo fan unit from donor car, good as it gets, no wires burning. Will need to get new oxygen sensor, it's disconnected for now.

    On inspection of both fans, the plastics are not "for life", it will deteriorate sooner or later, some edges can be chipped off like biscuits.

    Spoke to a mechanic friend the next day, he had Festiva as a workshop-run-around-car, and mentioned to him what happened, say's it is a common problem, the quality of the plastic used in them thermo fans is crap, won't last.
    Last edited by fezzy; 11-02-2016, 04:06 PM.

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