What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[TorqueEffect]

Nothing.

Too hot and humid to do anything.

[fudge]

It was last week but my girlfriend and I painted blue red and white pin stripes on my car and painted the rims blue. Also waxed it real good and made it shinier than ever.

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Last week I got a 10 inch sub with a 300 watt amp installed and it hits real nice. After that I got rear speakers installed and I think they look pretty nice.

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Next up on the car to do list is brakes and suspension

[firebush357]

No.
Speedo cable is just a speedo cable.
Did you check your fuses?

I checked the ones in the dash panel under the steering panel and the 25A Belts fuse was blown so I took the 15A room fuse and put it in it's place but that didn't change anything. My boss told me that the only way the speedo cable would act as a ground is if it had to because some other ground was bad. It was storming last night so I didn't feel like fooling with it to see what going on. There is a possibility that I might have pulled one of the Harnesses loose as well, I didn't get a very good look at it the other day because I was in a hurry.

I did accidentally ground out my 10mm wrench the other day while tightening the Positive battery terminal, it arched a little but I don't see how that could cause any of that to go bad. I'll probably get a chance to look at it today now that I am caught up with school work for a day or two.

[navdoc101]

No.
Speedo cable is just a speedo cable.
Did you check your fuses?

[firebush357]

Reminder that you do NOT have to take the whole speedo gear out of the trans( and risk breaking the tab with the 10 mm hold down). Just unscrew the top part that has a large hex head made on it, 19 mm. I did so much cluster swapping that I cut off a 19mm open end wrench to about 4" long just for that as 19s are usually long and cumbersome in the space there. There is an "ear" on the end of the cable that can be aggravating to line back up with the corresponding groove, but you won't have to worry about crud getting into the fluid while it's disconnected.

I haven't even looked at it since the other night but I will definitely look for what you are talking about because I really don't want to pull the dash apart. Does that Speedo Cable act as a Ground for the Cluster? Because I lost all of the Gauges plus the blinkers and the one seat belt that used to move is now stuck forward (passenger).

[jawja jim]

Thank You Sir. It might be a couple of days before I am able to get to it so a video would be awesome.

Reminder that you do NOT have to take the whole speedo gear out of the trans( and risk breaking the tab with the 10 mm hold down). Just unscrew the top part that has a large hex head made on it, 19 mm. I did so much cluster swapping that I cut off a 19mm open end wrench to about 4" long just for that as 19s are usually long and cumbersome in the space there. There is an "ear" on the end of the cable that can be aggravating to line back up with the corresponding groove, but you won't have to worry about crud getting into the fluid while it's disconnected.

[firebush357]

SECOND THAT MOVE!

If you don't take off the speedo cable at the trans first, you don't have enough slack in the cable to move it more than a half inch. I also recommend that you pull the cable up in the engine bay, and lay it flat along the top of everything else so that you can pull it in and out of the firewall easily (video to come).

Take a good look at the connectors when you do and see if any of the connectors in the plug are loose. (PUSHED CONNECTOR scenario)

Thank You Sir. It might be a couple of days before I am able to get to it so a video would be awesome.

[Greywolf]

SECOND THAT MOVE!

If you don't take off the speedo cable at the trans first, you don't have enough slack in the cable to move it more than a half inch. I also recommend that you pull the cable up in the engine bay, and lay it flat along the top of everything else so that you can pull it in and out of the firewall easily (video to come).

Take a good look at the connectors when you do and see if any of the connectors in the plug are loose. (PUSHED CONNECTOR scenario)

[Meepersly]

So... I found out last night when I went to go leave for the Drag Strip that apparently when I added the LEDs to my Cluster I accidentally unplugged it and now I'm assuming I have to take the dash apart to get it plugged back in. I'm assuming its the Speedo cable. Does anyone have any advice on this?

If it's the speedo cable or any plug yes you take the black plastic thingy in the front off and unscrew the cluster. To make the speedo cable easy to plug it you want to unscrew it from the speedo cable on the transmission.l that way you can give yourself slack on the cable.

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[firebush357]

So... I found out last night when I went to go leave for the Drag Strip that apparently when I added the LEDs to my Cluster I accidentally unplugged it and now I'm assuming I have to take the dash apart to get it plugged back in. I'm assuming its the Speedo cable. Does anyone have any advice on this?

[ottoparts]

My interior is in really good shape. I had some Aspire seat foam laying around. I swapped the foam out on the Festiva seat frames and put the stock Festiva coverings back on. The Aspire foam has the large "R" in the middle. In the picture of the two seats, the passenger one was swapped and the driver was stock.
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[firebush357]

Try adding about a fifty ohm resistor in line to the lights from the dimmer switch. if it's too much, drop it by 25 ohms. if it isn't enough - go up 25 ohms. Resistors can be had in six packs online or from radio shack for about a buck and a half.

You could also install a trimmer pot - an adjustable resistor in a range of about 0 to 250 or 0 to 100 ohms. That way you could dial it right in.
The basic rule with LED's used to be 50 ohms per volt, if that means anything to you.


Myself I just went on the longest confidence test run so far with the 1991. I took a load of aluminum cans to a scrapper in Memphis and bagged about thirty some odd bucks, then I turned right around and ran to O'Reilly's near where I live and got the speedo cable I needed placed on order...

$29.oo even, after discounts. Coincidence? :highly_amused:

I'm wondering now if I can tweek the A/C to make it blow colder.

I get a 30% Discount from Advance Auto Parts from my job. You have to order online and spend over $50 though. The Discount code is TRT30, it will save you up to a maximum of $50 and you also get there rewards program with it to use in store on smaller purchases. It has saved me a lot of money, Had to buy 2 new batteries for my Diesel and saved $46 on each battery htd

[Greywolf]

Try adding about a fifty ohm resistor in line to the lights from the dimmer switch. if it's too much, drop it by 25 ohms. if it isn't enough - go up 25 ohms. Resistors can be had in six packs online or from radio shack for about a buck and a half.

You could also install a trimmer pot - an adjustable resistor in a range of about 0 to 250 or 0 to 100 ohms. That way you could dial it right in.
The basic rule with LED's used to be 50 ohms per volt, if that means anything to you.


Myself I just went on the longest confidence test run so far with the 1991. I took a load of aluminum cans to a scrapper in Memphis and bagged about thirty some odd bucks, then I turned right around and ran to O'Reilly's near where I live and got the speedo cable I needed placed on order...

$29.oo even, after discounts. Coincidence? :highly_amused:

I'm wondering now if I can tweek the A/C to make it blow colder.

[firebush357]

Replaced my Cluster illumination bulbs with a strip of LED's I had laying around because there was one bulb already out and I could barely see my Cluster at night and anything over 50mph I had no clue how fast I was going because it was so dark. They are really bright on the when the dimmer is turned all the way up but I think they will be fine with it turned down, if not I can just add a piece of plastic where the older green one used to go and either scuff it up or tint it or I could just wire in a small resistor.

This is the lowest setting on the dimmer switch.
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[Greywolf]

Trashed one of my speedometer cables (white car) removing the speedo gear to check the fluid level. It just came apart while I was trying to wiggle the gear out.

On the plus side - yeah, it was a couple of pints low on Mercon. No wonder it was whining in fifth, now I have to wonder if it survived the previous owner or if it has internal damage that will get worse.

I think Mr. Skippy here is going to be exploring the wonderful world of transaxle rebuilding soon...