What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Larry Hampton]

My speedo doesn't even work, the odometer does.....

[91mcnasty]

^ that speedo noise absolutely infuriates me!!! Anybody know of a good cable lube? I've tried alot of stuff and it only works for about a week.

[Larry Hampton]

Last night I put new MOOG swaybar end bushings on Fajita. Now it'll get up above 40 without shaking so bad. Problem is now the tops of the doors flap, LOL!!

Also noticed the driver's side tie rod end was missing a cotter pin for the castle nut, it was still tight, dug thru my stuff and found one and installed it.

Now just have to fix the headlight switch and the speedo cluster. I'll probably just swap the steering column instead of trying to remove the multifunction switch. The P/O installed a lighted rocker switch in the dash for the headlights so I'll need to figure out what was hacked. The speedo noise is annoying at speed.

[Charlie1717]

Good work, man!

I slid through a couple of intersections in the neighborhood today. Luckily the main roads were salted and the drive to work was quicker than I expected. I'm sure it'll still take a few more days with snow on the ground before everyone relearns how to drive in it...

My ebrake froze up so I thought I released it and began to drive quickly doing a 180. Fixed now Snow tires going on today!

[91mcnasty]

^ true that. I pulled 2 cars out of a creek at about 10 pm in 40 mph winds......FML

[crazyrog17]

Good work, man!

I slid through a couple of intersections in the neighborhood today. Luckily the main roads were salted and the drive to work was quicker than I expected. I'm sure it'll still take a few more days with snow on the ground before everyone relearns how to drive in it...

[htchbck]

Installed the white tach cluster in Green Car this morning in 20 degree weather and 20mph winds. Good thing I've done cluster swaps enough times that it took less than ten mins

Already finished the throttle bracket for Danny's B6 too, all before 8:30. Shaping up to be a fairly productive day lol.

[htchbck]

Well, yesterday I rerouted (and shortened) the VAF harness to the driver side, moved negative batt cable to pass side, hooked up all the wiring on the back side of the motor including splicing IAC plug, installed starter, installed brake booster crossover tube and some other little odds and ends on Danny's car. Today I'll be making the battery tray and throttle cable bracket using the designs I laid out yesterday. Throttle bracket will be no prob, hopefully the same goes for the batt tray but it will be a little more intense fabrication so we'll see Need to install the positive cable today too.

[htchbck]

Did the HG fix your problem? And did you ever run comp tests?

[200KGPGTP]

Changed the head gasket. Somehow annihilated the timing... took a couple hours to get it right again.

[htchbck]

No problem, looking forward to the end result. If I can get the tank dropped and cleaned today (depending on weather) then I should have it running before the weekend! Need to test that ECU today too.

[kumalaba]

motor swap looking good joseph! tks so much!

[htchbck]

If you rebuild a set of knuckles, that some other knucklehead screwed up the shims on, is there a way to rebuild them with new shims and get it right?

There is a special tool for measuring which spacer to use. I don't know what it is or the part number but there's a couple threads with it on here.

[Larry Hampton]

Finished building Danny's steering knuckles with new bearing and rotors today.

If you rebuild a set of knuckles, that some other knucklehead screwed up the shims on, is there a way to rebuild them with new shims and get it right?

[htchbck]

^ Have you done a compression test? Unless you are dealing with a blown gasket between cylinders (not common but possible on these cars) then you would likely be getting water in the oil, or vice versa. At any rate, I'd do a compression test before tearing into anything. If your theory is correct then two adjacent cylinders should be equally low.