What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[jcbgrady]

It was too close for my comfort. I don't have any experience with motors and I didn't know how much it was going to move around in there so I thought better safe then sorry. /shrug

[ELUSIVE]

Finished painting my aspire rear beam and machined my polyurethane bushings for the rear bar.

Pics! Pics! Pics! And maybe, pretty please some measurements for said bushings?

[markabelfish]

festiva mechanic needed in Idaho

does anyone know of a mechanic who deals with Festivas in Idaho????

[Oren09]

Today I changed my oil and transmission fluid.
The tranny fluid came out a yellow/gold colour; similar to that of new oil.

I also broke my speedometer cable trying to pull it out of the transmission. Luckily the junkyard just down the road still has the Festiva I took my engine out of. My new cable has three times the mileage of the old one, though, and the needle shakes.
I assume it just needs to be lubricated. What kind of lubricant do y'all use? Any suggestions on how to do it?

[Zanzer]

I had the same issue with mine. You can pull the drive cable from the sheath to clean it and lubricate it with lithium grease. Made mine operate like new.

[Gomez]

C'mon guys we need this to be the first 1000 post thread.

I put in an Aspire m/c replacing my stock one that was starting to go out.

[jcbgrady]

Last night I pulled the rails off of the stock seat to fit my new WRX seats. I need to figure a way to adapt them preferably without modification to the WRX seats themselves. It doesn't look good though. Probably going to have to cut, grind and weld.

[Safety Guy]

I replaced my rear bumper, which had been guardrailed in a winter slide by the PO, with a newer, blackened nicer bumper off an '89LX. Pictures at my build thread here at the link to my most recent page:

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?p=432940#post432940

Karl

[ELUSIVE]

Battery in boot, kill switch installed, LED dash light conversion and tacho dims with dash lights now!

[kartracer46]

I had the same issue with mine. You can pull the drive cable from the sheath to clean it and lubricate it with lithium grease. Made mine operate like new.

x2, I do the same and mine are super smooth.

[Oren09]

Do you just pull it out from the transmission end?

[Zanzer]

^^ I took my cable assembly completely out of the car when I did it so I could spray carb cleaner though the sheath to get the old grease out of it.

[kartracer46]

Pulled Twizted out, got him all cleaned up and fixed a vibration issue. I will finally get to drive him again and keep my fillings in my teeth.

[200KGPGTP]

C'mon guys we need this to be the first 1000 post thread.

I put in an Aspire m/c replacing my stock one that was starting to go out.

Started by me!!




Today, I replaced literally ALL exhaust components. ITS SO QUIET NOW!!! Oh its so nice!!

[juanj0]

yesterday i installed th a/c on my festy and tomorrw i will install the isuzu stylus front bumper