What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[navdoc101]

Installed my new to me Aspire seats. Fells nice on my bottom! My festy drivers seat was FUBAR!! Its my birthday present to myself.

[boydg1]

.... Yes, it's out of sight. Rockwell (Sonic Crafter) is most likely your next best bet.
.

^^^ Yup, Fein is the original patent holder. They introduced this tool about 10 years ago, but their tool 'system' was around $1k!!!

[FB71]

^^^ Yup, Fein is the original patent holder. They introduced this tool about 10 years ago, but their tool 'system' was around $1k!!!

[Flyin4stroke]

I use the craftsman multi master it's amazing I sanded my whole jet ski with it in 1 battery and it's only a 12v pretty much rips through anything that is 100% fastened. You can actually touch the blade while it's running. Before I grout tile floors I put the grout tool on and go to town takes about half the time and 1/4 of the effort. Great tools highly recommended. If you ever want to see a really nice one look up fein tool.

[walth]

FMLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

The guy who sent me the fubar parking brake cable sent me another.... ALSO BROKEN!!!!!!!!

EGADS! dude that blows!! well at least you now have TWO bad cables haha. that sucks. I have an aspire cable on ebay. it's mint.

and I just put my rusted one in to derust last night! hope it works. I'll PM you its results.

FeistyFesti, that's not a little sander man...look how clean of a cut that made. that's like a big A angle grinder!

Willie, lol when you explained the finger part, I thought "OH NO! not another finger!"

[FeistyFesti]

I've always wondered if those vibrating cutting heads actually work as well as they look on tv without the smoke and mirrors. Thats great to know, may have to buy one now because sometimes a Dremel is hard to use.

[GenevaDirt]

been meaning to post this....I used this tool to cut of the section of oil pan needed for clearance of the axle when using a Festy tranny with a B6T motor....finger is for reference of size of piece (was not cut off with tool or anything else....thought about it but didn't want anyone to think I was trying to compete with kartracer46 (Jay) or motoexpress (Will))...the tool I used was the one in the picture....love it, changeable heads , has a 3/8 ratchet drive I bought and an impact/driver head also.....did I say I love it....

[200KGPGTP]

FMLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

The guy who sent me the fubar parking brake cable sent me another.... ALSO BROKEN!!!!!!!!

[Ford Fester]

About half done with a b8 swap for a co-worker/friend/old festy of mine. He blew a head gasket about 2 weeks ago and wanted me to fix it. He told me to give him some more power if I could. Hehehe....I think he will like it.

[Oren09]

Windy1 made Neanderpaul fix the pictured festiva up to pristine condition with the promise that he would buy it afterward. Once finished, he said he didn't want it anymore. When Windy posts, NP refers to that car. In this case, it was because it was rust-free and he mentioned fixing rust.

Oh, and I'm 17, 6'6", 241lbs.

Gotcha. Thanks.

[walth]

just don't try to cut boards one handed...

[kartracer46]

well i figured out today you can repair a speedo cable one handed, you can change a starter one handed, you can prep and paint a valve cover one handed, but still working on how to rebuild an engine single handedly. no pun intended.

[Basement_Modder]

I still don't get it.
But nice bumpside F series in the background.

Windy1 made Neanderpaul fix the pictured festiva up to pristine condition with the promise that he would buy it afterward. Once finished, he said he didn't want it anymore. When Windy posts, NP refers to that car. In this case, it was because it was rust-free and he mentioned fixing rust.

Oh, and I'm 17, 6'6", 241lbs.

[Oren09]

Are we posting weights now?
I'm ~140.

Today I changed oil and filter.
Inspected front suspension. Weird noises from all over but nothing appears worn and there was no play. My CV boots are torn all the way through and the joints were nasty, though. That would explain the popping/clunking/etc on turns.

Replaced the shifter bushings at the transmission end:

Shifter linkage

The bushings on the riveted part are missing.



Drilled out rivet

I ovaled out the bracket a bit but it turned out to be useful for the new bolt.

This was the closest bolt I could fine. Its a 10mm.
It's long, but does not have any clearance issues. I can go through all the gears with not problems.

Reinstalled.
My shifter still has a bit of play but you can't pull it back to neutral while remaining in gear.

[FB71]

Nice! You must be a pretty big guy.
I was about 180lb when I made the "pick up the festiva rear " video
Closer 195 when I made the "festiva flip" Video.

I haven't been 180lbs since I was 14... 195lbs @ 15!!!!