What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[scitzz]

Funny, I did an oil change as well!

Changed the oil in Boopstiva, and in Baby Car. Added flush to boop, and let her run for a minute or so, but no ACC belt meant she couldn't run long, but got the good stuff moving through her at least.

Soaked the IAC in BC AGAIN. Still soaking. Cleaned her out of some of the junk collecting in her since Madness. Got up some unidentified ick junk stuff that was in the back floor board. Flushed the radiator. Installed a new blinker fuse. FINALLY got all my fusible links changed out to long leg cartridges, and yes, Arty, that includes the main. I realized later that I had changed that link out for a short leg cartridge a while back in desperation, and never got it done right, thanks for noticing.

Lemmee see....

Cleaned all the windows, and then thought about putting the aspire seats in. I never got around to that though, getting late now, and so I opened a bottle of Epic Brewerys Big Bad Baptist, release number seven, and am sipping on it, catching a nice, mellow buzz

[Oren09]

Oil change.

Installed the Energy Suspension bushings htchback (thanks again! ) ground down for me.
Haven't driven far enough to take some fun corners. We'll see how they do tonight at work.

[Christ]

I will suggest to anyone using the lawnmower/motorcycle battery hack, CLEAN YOUR GROUNDS. ALL OF THEM.

It will make a difference in even the best-able starting systems using less power.

Clean up every connection point, grease it, then insulate it from the elements. You'll never believe how bright your lights get, etc, and you may end up getting slightly better fuel economy from it as well, due to less alternator load.

[Prafeston]

Awesome! I'll have to make not of that when I need a new one. Mine looks old and my connectors are getting pretty corroded.

[sc72]

Links to this lawn mower battery!

Walmart Rafe, mine is a 350 cca and works fine, i didn't plan to do this swap but last winter the Die Hard died, so i have the lawn mower battery in the basement on a batt tender, i bolted it in the Festy and have not taken it out, works great.

[Prafeston]

Links to this lawn mower battery!

[Aaronbrook37]

I needed a new battery so i slapped in a 28 dollar lawn mower battery thats 16 lbs lighter than the one i had. It made a noticeable difference in acceleration ! I can't wait to unbolt the passenger seat and seat belt assemblies once i don't have to haul anyone around :p ...Ran out of things i can unbolt from the engine bay

I have one of these with my B6T and she cranks wonderfully!

[Fester's Quest]

I needed a new battery so i slapped in a 28 dollar lawn mower battery thats 16 lbs lighter than the one i had. It made a noticeable difference in acceleration ! I can't wait to unbolt the passenger seat and seat belt assemblies once i don't have to haul anyone around :p ...Ran out of things i can unbolt from the engine bay

[ericsmith32]

Loaded her up. All the spare tires I had and all the parts laying around. She's headed for the farm this weekend, may let her sleep all winter. Putting the house on the market and even though it probably won't sell I'm not waiting till the last moment to do everything!

[DriverOne]

Re: What have you done to your Festiva today!?

Awesome sunroof!

BEBandit and I grabbed RazorWing's (sshort1986) Festiva from the midstate for some emergency repair. Turns out, it was the oil pan gasket. Long story, but it goes back in tomorrow.

[Prafeston]

Got my windows retinted since I put a new hatch on that had no tint and the tint that was on the other windows was installed poorly.


Also I drove 160 miles round trip after work today to pick up this sunroof. I'm pretty excited! Cost me 60 bucks and 12 bucks in gas. It's brand new and comes with all seals, instructions, and template for cutting the roof! It is a SFC Genesis if anyone is wondering. The outside frame is aprox. 29x15.5in

[bravekozak]

Change it tomorrow. It's going to be record warmth. After that, the weather is supposed to cool down to below normal for the next two weeks.

[jjk1224]

Fixed my crankshaft seal oil leak today after a low oil scare last week. Also sort of fixed my out-of-spec toe alignment but could still use some tweaks. While moving the tie rod end around I managed to rip the dust boot nearly in half... When will it end!!! At least I have spare sitting around but who knows when I'll make the time to put it on.

[WTFestiva]

Have you always had to the 2 Festivas? One for parts?

we just got the little red one about 2 weeks ago, something was wierd with it and it didnt have a title, didnt run, all kindsa stuff so we just took it as a parts car.

[RhodeStiva]

got my speedo w/tach installed and it's working great. i will take pictures soon and post in my build