Started the Festiva and let it run a bit. pulled it back into the garage.
One thing I could do before I get an engine is fix the rear brakes. They're sticking something fierce. I can't even push it on the smooth, flat garage floor.
Is there enough clearance in there to drill it and use a bolt/screw extractor perhaps? You could try doing it that way... but it'd be a bit of a pain to say the least.
Possibly, but like you said, It would be a pain.
Rear beams are cheap, and a set junkyard springs and shocks shouldn't be too much.
Now this is probably a stupid question, but will the rear springs and shocks from an Aspire bolt up to a Festy rear beam? Or is that one of the big reasons people do the Aspire swap in the first place?
While trying to raise my rear suspension today. (Which failed since these springs have so few coils and such little tension, it made zero difference when wedging coil boosters between the springs.)
I found that the lower rear strut bolt head was sheered off on the driver's side, I think someone in the past was going to change the rear struts, and that happened.
So the ONLY way I can change my struts is to replace the entire rear beam, because there is no way that bolt is coming out.
The deeper and deeper I delve into this car, the more $#!% I find.
Is there enough clearance in there to drill it and use a bolt/screw extractor perhaps? You could try doing it that way... but it'd be a bit of a pain to say the least.
While trying to raise my rear suspension today. (Which failed since these springs have so few coils and such little tension, it made zero difference when wedging coil boosters between the springs.)
I found that the lower rear strut bolt head was sheered off on the driver's side, I think someone in the past was going to change the rear struts, and that happened.
So the ONLY way I can change my struts is to replace the entire rear beam, because there is no way that bolt is coming out.
The deeper and deeper I delve into this car, the more $#!% I find.
Last edited by TorqueEffect; 03-06-2013, 01:26 PM.
Papa Smurf is looking good!!! And the white wheels really set off the white hood!
Thanks, next is white grill and eyelids. Then drive the wheels off of it. I was kind of unsure about the auto at first but I love it now! Gas milage is not too bad either
Inspected my front brakes. I've been getting an intermittent faint high pitched squeal/squeak like the of brake pad wear indicators.
Pads are still good with lots of material left.
Then I dumped a lot of oil on the ground. I was going to move my oil catch can from the PCV line to the valve cover breather. When I opened the catch can, quite a lot of oil came out. I haven't opened it since right after I got it because there was no oil showing on the sight glass. It is obviously working some, so I'm leaving it on the PCV line.
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