What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[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.

[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.

[Oren09]

Do you just pull it out from the transmission end?

[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.

[ELUSIVE]

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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[markabelfish]

festiva mechanic needed in Idaho

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

[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?

[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

[91mcnasty]

I thought it wasn't necessary to notch the framerail for the alt.? Or did you just do it for a "just in case" situation?

[jcbgrady]

Yesterday I made room for the BP by pounding the firewall in and notching the frame rail for the alternator. Today I primed and lined the interior with bed liner (2 coats, doing three). I also painted the rockers with bed liner. Cleaned the engine bay and put two coats of high temp. engine paint on. Cleaned the wheel wells, painted with primer and then undercoating.

This car is looking amazing!