What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[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.

[200KGPGTP]

Think I'll throw on a new head gasket. Pretty sure that's what's netting me ~26 mpg. Lack of compression.

[neanderpaul]

Progress!

[htchbck]

Finished Festivafication of Danny's motor today:



Installed:



Intake piping mocked up:

[zoom zoom]

I got the 626 multifunction switch spliced into the aspire's wiring harness, also hooked up the horn/airbag to the aspires sockets, hopefully I got it right, I'll plug it in tomorrow and see what happens.

also took my minivan in for a front end alignment, it needed it bad since I changed the ball joint. The steering pump is still whining a little bit, not nearly as bad as before, I don't remember hearing it before so I think something is wrong with it, but I don't know what, the haynes manual is MIA for that vehicle.

[crazyrog17]

Had another no start scare with the girlfriends white 92 GL. It happened to be an easy fix. Battery died because the brake light switch was left closed when the pedal's brake light switch pad slipped again. Dead battery but swapped in another for now, fixed the pad to turn off the brake lights.

On another note, I'm driving my Festiva again for the first time in what feels like months. $10 for just under a half tank. She missed me

[htchbck]

Finished everything on Danny's motor except swapping the motor mount bracket. Barely room to get to the bolt under the intake on a B3/early B6, the later B6 has the heater pipe on the intake even lower, so there was no way I could get a socket on it. Gonna have to use one of my beefy box wrenches on it and hit with a hammer. Ha! Lol.

[neanderpaul]

On Friday I changed out the fuel pressure regulator on my 93 automatic. Drove it to Huntsville AL and back. Got 25 mpg the whole way there and back. Joy.

[kumalaba]

[htchbck]

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

[walth]

flex honed my b6, cleaned pistons once more, installed crank and pistons and rings, going good

[Grey Vw]

Welded the diff pin but was too tired to put the tranny back in. I hope this tranny doesn't die.