What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Tommychu]

Rear main seal drips a quart every 3k.. just going to leave it excellent rust prevention.

No, it really isn't. Mediocre at best, otherwise my car would be rust free thanks to it's B3 that according to the PO had been leaking a quart a week since around 1998. Also the places the oil ends up are nowhere near the places that usually rust so that's a moot point.

[walth]

trailing arm to body brackets... 3 bolts on the rear suspension bracket? or the single bolt on the lower control arm? I don't know slang for trailing arm.. isn't a trailing arm the little 4-6" rod connecting to a sway bar / independent suspension style setup?

An impact gun will do the best job or heating up the bolt. others will have better suggestions I'm sure.

[neanderpaul]

Plugs, plug wires, distributor cap, rotor button, oxygen sensor, air filter, passenger side outer door handle. Painted this steelies black, conditioned the bumpers. Tomorrow it's a water temperature sensor and a fuel filter. Madness here we come!

[rbrown]

Tried and tried and tried to get the bolts out of the trailing arm to body brackets. Ain't moving.

[ericsmith32]

Changed the oil filter and refilled. Rear main seal drips a quart every 3k.. just going to leave it excellent rust prevention. Switched out one tire with a spare. Trying to figure out which one is bad.. I'm cursed when it comes to tires.

[Oren09]

I've already installed it. Look at the second picture.
I like it. Much better than my 90s one I painted black.

[Prafeston]

I took the grille and the center bezel (it wasn't broken!).

Keeping the grill? I'm looking for a pre-90 grill like that!

[eurotiva]

^ you need to bring that car out sometime and show it off!!!

Thisweekend is a good weekend to do that. Come to FM6 with us !!!

[avitsefdrof]

little things

Well, after fresh paint on my 89 L .....I put on the bodyside molding in 2" width and put door edge guards on and decided on a 1/4" strip down the body line. Some like ....some don't.....I do. Pics comin soon.

[Oren09]

Washed and waxed yesterday. It's amazing how red this car is when clean.

Today I checked out a new Festiva at the yard.
Black 89 L.
Wrecked on passenger rear.

Pretty colour. Black metallic looks like.

I took the grille and the center bezel (it wasn't broken!).

[TorqueEffect]

It might be similar to what happened to me. The salt water entered from the corner of the plenum and then ran down behind the carpet and along the seam of the floorpan. It originated way up under the dash above where the wiring harness enters the firewall. Check there first.

The body does have over 300K miles on it.
I will go get some pictures of this rusted floorpan. I may just have to cheap out on the repair, clean the rust out, seal it from moisture, and fix the hole with some fiberglass.

How would I go about checking that spot without removing the dash?

[bravekozak]

It might be similar to what happened to me. The salt water entered from the corner of the plenum and then ran down behind the carpet and along the seam of the floorpan. It originated way up under the dash above where the wiring harness enters the firewall. Check there first.

[TorqueEffect]

Found my floor pan is rusting out.

a hole about the size of one of those large jawbreakers, and hole about a quarter of an inch wide and about a foot in length that runs down the edge, making it very difficult to get cut out and a new piece welded in.

[Advancedynamix]

The Norris family used to watch me after school.

[walth]

^^^HAHA are you related to chuck Norris?!