What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[sc72]

Two weeks back, i bought Aspire struts for the rear, then last week Erik Smith and i went to a PnP in north K.C. and i bought a set of 02 Kia Rio front Struts, last spring i bought the GTX wheels from charlie 1717 the tires are 195/60/14's also while at the second PnP i mentioned to Eric what i was looking for, a little later after i thought i had lost Eric, here he comes with a hand full of center caps with the Ford emblem in the center, i thought they were appropiate, since it truly is a Ford product, well, made by Kia, powered by Mazda and i think it finishes off the wheels nicely. This past Saturday i was in the Kansas City area and stoped in to visit The Festiva Ranch, thats always a good time, Fresh and his wife are always happy to visit and swap Festiva stories.

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The paint dried so I put the pass. Side hubcaps back on..much better than the dingy old scratched and faded look.. i probably spent 2 hours with sandpaper on these to prep them, so hopefully this stuff sticks and don't peel off.

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Also did some research on jackstands/jack combo, I've got 2 hydraulic jacks, both wore out to the point new fluid won't make them jack up like they used to..so I suppose its time for a new one, I think I'm gonna go with auto zones brand, the duralast jacks (on average) last me 2.5 years each, and I think I'd rather have a name brand compared to some cheap harbor freight tool made-to-break, these are tools i use at least a couple times a week, and my life depends on it, if it was something that i rarely use, i'd probably go the cheap route.

[walth]

built my harbor freight 1 ton engine hoist (but upgraded the jack to the 8 ton hehe) and it's butter. pulled the B6 out of the ranger

I just need some longer bolts...the ones I got from the engine aren't even long enough to go through the HF engine stand...that or I'm cutting those mounts down shorter. I'd rather just find some bolts though

[drddan]

Installed a flush and fill kit and flushed the cooling system on the Festy.
It needed it too. After I flushed the entire system till it ran clear, with the drain open and cap off, I would put my finger on the drain to flow water thru top of radiator for a bit, and then remove my finger to let it drain. All the while the garden hose was hooked up and running. When I did...all the water came out the drain looking WHITE. Almost like milk. I think it was just sediment in the radiator. After flushing like that, back and forth from forcing water out the top of radiator, and then bottom of radiator thru drain it started running clear out of the bottom drain again. I figured I had gotten it pretty clean by then.

[navdoc101]

Apparently in the town it is when you have the wrong plate on a car, even though I was transfering the plate to the festiva.

I took the proof of insurance and the registration to there city hall and they threw the tickets out.

Thanks for the info. Thats stupid.

[jbuck1975]

Put 9.5 gallons of gas in it last night. I'm getting quite upset..... Mileage has been steadily falling the last 1.5 months from 40 to this tank... 30 mpg! FAILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I'm feeling the same way. Went from around 40 to 32 in the last 2 months.

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[Oren09]

Apparently in the town it is when you have the wrong plate on a car, even though I was transfering the plate to the festiva.

I took the proof of insurance and the registration to there city hall and they threw the tickets out.

Now that officer has two dismissed tickets on his record. Lol. Why do they even bother ticketing for insurance and registration things. Most of the time people still have them, just not current papers in the car. I've had two or three insurance tickets dismissed because the card in the car expired and the new policy documents were still in the house.

[Joe Dirt]

What in unlawful removal??

Apparently in the town it is when you have the wrong plate on a car, even though I was transfering the plate to the festiva.

I took the proof of insurance and the registration to there city hall and they threw the tickets out.

[200KGPGTP]

Put 9.5 gallons of gas in it last night. I'm getting quite upset..... Mileage has been steadily falling the last 1.5 months from 40 to this tank... 30 mpg! FAILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[neanderpaul]

Good info Willie! I am planning a b6t/festy auto as well. Good luck and post up the results!

[navdoc101]

What in unlawful removal??

[Joe Dirt]

Got pulled over for no real reason. Got a couple tickets for unlawful removal and no proof of insurance gotta love small town police must be that time of the month...

[GenevaDirt]

The B6T is in....temporarily though....







found out that I may have to modify the oil pan to get the axle in. I am using a Festy auto tranny and the pan does not work with it...

[freshtiva]

I buffed up Jerry some. This past Wenesday was his 23RD birthday.

[ericsmith32]

Aired up the tires and cleaned the windshield on the Festiva. 35psi on one side and the other had 30psi on the front.. no wonder it was driving odd. The rears had only 28 pumped them up to 32. Weird the Escape had 25psi on one and 30 in the other.