What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[link5186]

Checked for damage after removing my passenger side mirror with a tree branch last night. Grr. A few scratches, nothing major.

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[Oren09]

Lots of progress on Izzystiva the past few days.
Izzystiva is the car I picked up in Houston for my friend, Izzy.
Removed front seats. They are from another car and the seatbelt buckles do not work with Festiva seat belts. I am going to find the stock seatbelt buckles.
Cleaned rearend. Spare tire well was full of nasty stuff that made lots of bubbles when I hosed it out. Removed and started painting bumpers and grille. Cut busted coolant hose on back of intake manifold to remove it when everything dries. It was too swollen to move the clamp. Rewired radio and got rid of dashboard fan switch. I don't intend to be mean to my friend, but a manually switched fan is too complicated for her. Diagnosed a bad fan relay as the culprit why a previous owner changed fans and wired a switch. Found out neither key that came with the car works on the ignition so it is now locked. Getting a key cut soon. All of my Festiva keys and my Dodge truck key operate the driver's side door, however. The car is 280,000 miles, though. Engine runs great with a little smoke when its been sitting. A/C is still R12 and blows cold. Driver's side front wheel has vertical play- assuming bad wheel bearing. Droning noise when driving as well. CV axle boots are non existent but I'll leave those alone until the axles fail which should be awhile. Steering rack has lots of play and noise. Not sure if inner or outer tie rods but can't check until I get keys to unlock the ignition and steering column. I've rigged a domelight to work with doors open. I have three Festiva domes, but none work properly so I just moved some of the contacts to work when the doors have ground. I have yet to find a working junkyard dome light. My Festiva still has an Aspire dome light mounted crooked to line up with the ground screw. Izzystiva has lots of oil and gunk on the underside of the engine. I wiped it down to try to locate any new leaks. We'll see how that goes. Reverse lights stay on, so I'm thinking reverse switch. Have to locate and diagnose. Found original shifter knob inside the brake light hole. Soaked shifter knob and cleaned it. Replaced shifter bushings with a couple I had in stock. I can now find third gear. That thing was REALLY sloppy. The shifter linkage rivet at the transmission end was replaced with a bolt by a previous owner so that will make replacing those bushings much easier when I get around to that. The clutch in this car is VERY grippy. I didn't stall it, but it grabs once you let it out, no slipping at all.
I have a very very long list of parts to find at a junkard for this car. For example, it needs visors, hatch strut, spare tire cover and carpeting, the vinyl on the back of the rear seat, headlight bulb lock ring, various interior screws (a previous owner never put any hardware back), fan relay, and A/C relay (maybe, the blower is intermittent), wiper stalk and module (replaced by an unknown one and has only one working speed), driver's side autobelt, and can't remember what else.
This car will keep me busy for awhile....

[DriverOne]

Drove Ms. Scarlet today (90 L+, 72,000 mi, restoring at present, wife's car), and ended up driving it home without a gauge cluster. Needs continuity grease. Then, probably an LED upgrade. Pics to come, via MadScientist's 'build thread', when she starts one.

[kumalaba]

no garage here also, but the weather isnt near as bad here. glad you got it running again, if i can help scrounge up any needed parts just lmk. danny

[GenevaDirt]

Got the B3 back in and running....just need to hook up exhaust and axles....will be back on the road.

[GenevaDirt]

That sucks Willie, how come you couldn't get the swap finished up in time?

more parts needed then what originally thought.....car sat for a long time before I could get it to my house to pull the motor and actually start working on the swap....I was/am at the mercy of the weather not having a garage.

[JPT]

Put KYB struts on the back of mine. I didn't know that I knew that many words to call the strut to axle beam bolts.

They would have been a (insert banned word here) to get out, but a little time with a Sawzall took care of them. Afterwards, I got to play with my new MIG.

4 new Boss Audio speakers went in too.

[blacklabels]

Not today but this week! Gotta fix the back of my red car the back tire desided to turn sideways Driving on the highway Yay fishtailing at 65mph. Next day driving on highway and blue one desided to not have brakes yay score... Need new brake lines for that yay...

[woodyvw16v]

it wasnt today, but last week i finally got the short throw shifter from my ol' civic in the fes. replaced the crappy oem shifter bushings with some nice bronze ones. no more slop on either end now. topped off with a gsr shift knob i had, much more natural feeling, just a bit lower than the original. the spring was a PITA, but overall i cant believe i waited as long as i did to finally get that done.

now i just need to get the motivation to repack the rear wheel bearings, replace the drivers side axle and seal, dist. o-ring, cap, rotor, timing belt, tensioner, misc seals, and water pump that are floating around in the basement here- then i can start some fun stuff.

[Damkid]

That sucks Willie, how come you couldn't get the swap finished up in time?

[GenevaDirt]

This is an 1/8" off.

maybe the mount was boxed wrong....isn't there a difference in a Festy versus Aspire mount....I have had Aspire brakes in a Festy box before...

Are you serious ! You're going backwards. I hate rework,

Not more then I do right now....but I need the car on the road for the winter and we just had our first snow....not driving the LX in the winter here...it is getting put in storage.

[neanderpaul]

Yeah, hating that for you willie.

[kumalaba]

put the B6T swap on hold and dropped the B3 back into my car....just have to hook up the wiring and exhaust...oh...and the axles.

[freshtiva]

I put a front motor/trans mount on my buddy's 89 automatic LX. Went to put on the rear trans mount. It didn't fit. too narrow. They only sell the rear mount for the manual. Anybody have a line on a rear trans mount? I'm considering trimming the trans to use the manual trans rear mount.

I ran into that too when I was putting Jerry back togather. Bought all ( 3) the used auto mounts I could find.

put the B6T swap on hold and dropped the B3 back into my car....just have to hook up the wiring and exhaust...oh...and the axles.

Are you serious ! You're going backwards. I hate rework,

[Hot_Wheels]

I put a front motor/trans mount on my buddy's 89 automatic LX. Went to put on the rear trans mount. It didn't fit. too narrow. They only sell the rear mount for the manual. Anybody have a line on a rear trans mount? I'm considering trimming the trans to use the manual trans rear mount. Autozone, O'Reilly's, Advance, and napa only have the rear trans mount for the 5 speed. I also put steering rack boots on it and freed up the pass side parking brake.

do you still have the old mount? when i pulled the motor on my auto the mount separated, we took a piece of sheet meta drilled a hole for the bolt to go through, welded the bolt to the sheet metal and wrapped it around the rubber and welded it, its now a solid mount but im sure it will work fine, and wont have to be replaced again! unfortunately i didnt get any pictures, we just did it last week too.