Saturday I finally got the antenna installed on Thing 1. It was a bear. Instead of using a coat hanger I used the old hood release cable out of the wife's old van. Getting the cable thru the hole was a bear but getting the plastic antenna tube thru its hole was worse. Chewed thru the side of the antenna wire. Black tape fixed that. I also mounted some old 5 1/4" speakers from the Shadow on some old rear speaker panels that someone had put speaker grilles on top of. Didnt want to use my good grilles.
1963 Fairlane - future NSS drag car
1965 Mustang Coupe - A-code car, restoring for/with my son
1973 F100 longbed - only 22k original miles, 360/auto, disk, PS/PB dealer in dash A/C
1996 Sonoma X-cab - son's DD
2002 Grand Prix - daughter's DD
2003 Sport Trac - 180k, 130k on replaced motor with new timing chains - F/S soon.
2005 Accord - wife's DD
2008 Mountaineer - step daughter's DD
2015 F150 SCrew - DD
after 3 months and multiple troubleshooting and electrical problems. the BP swap is running and running healthy.
Car #789
Sponsors: Williams American Construction, Dewaynes Tire service, Roofing Supply Group
1992 Festiva L - BP Swapped, Aspire Swapped, Rally America Sanctioned.
1993 Festiva GL - 4sp Automatic and the bluest car i've ever seen... http://www.facebook.com/warally
about a week i hope, cant drive it much on those tires though
Car #789
Sponsors: Williams American Construction, Dewaynes Tire service, Roofing Supply Group
1992 Festiva L - BP Swapped, Aspire Swapped, Rally America Sanctioned.
1993 Festiva GL - 4sp Automatic and the bluest car i've ever seen... http://www.facebook.com/warally
Went to put the summer wheels & tires on only to discover the LCA on the left side is on its way out and the outer tie rod end on the right was also on the way out. Already replaced the tie rod end and new LCA's are on their way. I ordered Moog for each of these.
Also installed the new spacers and longer studs on the front to give me the needed wheel to strut clearance. This was documented in this thread. All that is done now and I've cranked the coilovers down a bit to lower the car for the summer.
With the spacers at each wheel the front track is now 20mm wider than before. I may install spacers on the back now to widen the rear track too. I have a pair of 4mm and a pair of 6mm spacers that I can try out. Also have a set of longer studs if I need them.
While installing the new LCAs I also plan to remove the Aspire sway bar and go back to the stock Festiva version along with all new bushings of course, Moog for the sway bar to LCA and Nolathane for the sway bar to body. I'm going to pick up another outer tie rod end as well for the left side. After all that's done I'll get it in for a proper alignment.
Ian
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
59 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite
"It's infinitely better to fail with courage than to sit idle with fear...." Chip Gaines (pg 167 of Capital Gaines, Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
Reassembled some of the powdercoated stuff, namely the driver rear of the bay clustereff. Question- does the bottom of the ICM and/or the weird tiny tiny little box held on with one nut need to be grounded?
Buck.
-1993 Ford Festiva GL, ~200k, B6, Aspire rear, Rio front, 5-speed. '87 Prelude alloys. Happy to be back on the route!!!
-1999 Toyota Sienna XLE, 346,000
-1996 Chevrolet K1500 Z71, 350 V8, 198k, hauler
Went to put the summer wheels & tires on only to discover the LCA on the left side is on its way out and the outer tie rod end on the right was also on the way out. Already replaced the tie rod end and new LCA's are on their way. I ordered Moog for each of these.
Also installed the new spacers and longer studs on the front to give me the needed wheel to strut clearance. This was documented in this thread. All that is done now and I've cranked the coilovers down a bit to lower the car for the summer.
With the spacers at each wheel the front track is now 20mm wider than before. I may install spacers on the back now to widen the rear track too. I have a pair of 4mm and a pair of 6mm spacers that I can try out. Also have a set of longer studs if I need them.
While installing the new LCAs I also plan to remove the Aspire sway bar and go back to the stock Festiva version along with all new bushings of course, Moog for the sway bar to LCA and Nolathane for the sway bar to body. I'm going to pick up another outer tie rod end as well for the left side. After all that's done I'll get it in for a proper alignment.
Is there a source stateside for these or do they have to come from AUS?
Is there a source stateside for these or do they have to come from AUS?
All the Moog parts were sourced either here in Calgary or on Rockauto.com. I'm not aware of any North American sources for the Nolathane products; I purchased mine on e-bay.
Ian
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
59 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite
"It's infinitely better to fail with courage than to sit idle with fear...." Chip Gaines (pg 167 of Capital Gaines, Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
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