What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Larry Hampton]

I drove Fajita home (black GL auto I recently bought) from work today, 22 miles, haven't replace the swaybar end bushings yet, but aired the tires up from 12 psi to 45 psi and the front had hardly any shake to it, only got up to about 45mph because of a collapsed HLA.

Pulled the VC and replaced that with a spare. No more ticky!!

Sprayed some orange cleaner under the hood and hosed it off.

[Damkid]

I didn't fire it up, the exhaust isn't connected up front, I was going to do that next but ran out of welding wire

[Oren09]

How's the sound?
With a V6, you can probably get your Festiva to sound like a midsize truck; maybe even a V8 with some exhaust tuning

[Damkid]

I cut my muffler off tonight, i never liked the sound of it, plus the guy who installed it had it hanging down too low and i thought it looked like crap, so since i parted out my Jeep, i had the Flo-pro muffler off it waiting to go on my festiva, it should hopefully get rid of the ricer sound and give it a nice beafy sound buwahaha

Here's the old muffler and you can see the new Flo-pro in the first pic better then the second despite the crappy angle lol



Sorry for the dark pic, i didn't think it was that dark

[ericsmith32]

Drove it to work for the first time in almost 2 months. Having no radio is interesting and you'll find out just how weird you are when you spend 15 minutes talking to yourself. Had to drive to a remote campus for repairs and the funny thing is my boss had to drive it back since it took too long and she had to attend a meeting. She said she hadn't drove a Festiva since had a new one back in the early 90's.

[neanderpaul]

I had seen you spell it that way before that's how I knew what happened.

[mattman]

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...fusible&page=2
Scroll down in that link for a pic Matt. The key to finding it was searching fusible as opposed to fuseable.

and that is exactly what i was doing ...lol.....i went to napa and got the 30/40/30 's a lil bit ago and the guy at the counter was telling me there are a few festiva's that are not tagged a few minutes away he is gonna stop an ask about them for me on his way home tonight .......and my festy is running once again..TA DA !!!

[neanderpaul]

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35765&highlight=fusible&page=2

Scroll down in that link for a pic Matt. The key to finding it was searching fusible as opposed to fuseable.

[mattman]

Thanks Paul N Walth i knew i had saw a thread on it but i wasnt finding one with a pic ( i'm a visual kinda person when it comes to parts ) but 30 . 40 . 30 will do 2 pinks and a green mucho thanks

[htchbck]

Last night once it got really cold and I was still running pizzas my throttle cable started sticking a little if I got up to about 3/4 throttle. It never got completely stuck, but it was revving insanely high during shifts since it wasn't releasing as soon as I got of the pedal. Its because when I modded the B3 bracket to use on the B6 I did it quickly/sloppily with an angle grinder and a pair of channel locks lol. Ended up with an odd angle. I had completely forgotten that it needed to be done during the swap, so after I had everything in and running I was in a hurry to get home lol. So today at work I cut me a nice chunk out of an old backhoe seat bracket that was laying around and drilled a couple holes in it. I haven't installed it yet but I think I got all of the measurements close enough to work with. Didn't have any black paint here at work so I painted it silver. I will probably repaint it again at the house, but at least the silver matches pretty well with the valve cover for now. Its heavy duty, over 1/8" thick so it should hold up no problem, especially since I don't really beat on the car much anyway.

[kumalaba]

[htchbck]

looks good & your prices just went up! after mine of course

HaHa lol thats what I was thinking when I read that lol, I should charge Danny $200 labor just for the front knuckles :lol: Nah, I like helping out fellow festivians, I'm not in it for the money just for a little compensation for the time I spend not working on one of mine I finally bought a new freeze plug for the back of Festevil yesterday. 35mm Dorman, cost me $0.99 lol.

[walth]

they come in a lot of cars. mostly mid 90's to early 2000's cars in general. thunderbirds, cougars, aspire, suzuki esteem (we have one), err, yeah can' remember everything else...just check around, look for the little black fuse boxes

[neanderpaul]

You want to replace the links with "long legged" cartridge type fuses. 30/40/30 pink/green/pink. They fit with no modification. They came in the aspire.

[mattman]

so does anyone know where to find replacement fuseable links the mcparts houses around here had none and i havent got to a dealer yet.......yes what i did was blow my main link due to age not short it just wore out