What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[200KGPGTP]

^please explain lol

Had done a steering intensive maneuver up the driveway, got to beside the house where I park and couldn't get the wheel straightened up quick enough. Lol!

Pulled the head today to replace valve seals. OMG was it dirty. Probably a 16th inch of carbon on pistons and valve area. Got it all cleaned up and am putting seals on tomorrow and head back on Fri morning (borrowing tool from a guy that won't let it leave his house so I have to make trips).

Are you decking the head or block or any other preparations before you put the head back on? Just curious.



As for me, oil pan gasket attempt #1. Better than it was, but still leaking.

[Zanzer]

^^ You can o-rings, washers, pintle caps, and filter baskets to rebuild them on Ebay

[getnpsi]

B8-ME is in and bolted up. New control arms and axles are in. Gauges are wired in. All seats are out because I'm installing '01 Civic interior. Dash is apart, pulled b3 ecu but misplaced my 1.8 ecu lol. Discovered the seaks on all my injectors were rotted to heck and the plastic tips broke off too. Took trip to JY today and I had to buy ones out of the only protege there for 38 bucks. Discovered ford BP injectors in a tracer are totally different; they are real ford ones. Glad i pulled the rail w/them and carried it with me until i found a 92 protege. My only worry is the car I pulled the injectors from had get this 384,xxx miles on it lol. We shall see how it goes in the weeks to come...

[Oren09]

Installed power mirrors, intermittent wipers, cargo cover.

[1990new]

Was my own dumb fault...got in too big of a hurry.
I'll chock it up to a learning experience.

[neanderpaul]

Arg. That bites man. Sorry to hear it.

[GenevaDirt]

Ahhh...I see...that could be an issue....would tick me off.

[1990new]

is that the rack boot? I have to replace them on the LX but I have done it before...only took off each tie rod end though.

That's the boot in the fire wall that the steering column shaft comes thru.
Left and right rack boots were on the rebuilt rack (Kartracer did it for me and did a terrific job.)
Here's a link to all the pictures I took. You can see the boot was in great shape when I installed the rack.
Craziest thing I've ever seen. When I turned the steering wheel full left, it must have been caught somehow on the
inside and just twisted in almost totally in two.

[GenevaDirt]

Junkyard Save:
Installed rebuilt rack, new outer tie rod ends and new moog LCA's.

When you get your rack installed and start turning the steering wheel to check the lineup, don't keep turning the steering wheel if you get resistance.
I did, and here's what happened.
Apparently the edge of the inside of the boot got caught in the universal joint and almost ripped it in half. I got it back around and I'm going to try to seal the boot with something as a temporary fix. Getting a replacement boot for the long term. Trouble is, I have to take everything out again.
But since I've done it once, it will be easier when I do it again in a couple of weeks.

Ole Yeller:
Installed new sway bar bushings. Steering and rest of suspension was good on Ole Yeller.

is that the rack boot? I have to replace them on the LX but I have done it before...only took off each tie rod end though.

[Zanzer]

Started cleaning a cylinder head that I going to rebuild for Taz's 90 (Mabel) and then pulled the motor out of Taz's 89. It has a nice hole in the top of piston #3 :???:

[1990new]

Junkyard Save:
Installed rebuilt rack, new outer tie rod ends and new moog LCA's.

When you get your rack installed and start turning the steering wheel to check the lineup, don't keep turning the steering wheel if you get resistance.
I did, and here's what happened.
Apparently the edge of the inside of the boot got caught in the universal joint and almost ripped it in half. I got it back around and I'm going to try to seal the boot with something as a temporary fix. Getting a replacement boot for the long term. Trouble is, I have to take everything out again.
But since I've done it once, it will be easier when I do it again in a couple of weeks.

Ole Yeller:
Installed new sway bar bushings. Steering and rest of suspension was good on Ole Yeller.

[kartracer46]

Been working on a white 92GL i plan to sell, gonna put a pair of new horns on Lucky tomorrow and get Twizted out and install a new battery and give him a bath.

[walth]

Tinted my rear windows 20% to help with the heat. I didn't expect it to be such a pain to do. Takes forever and they didn't turn out perfect as expected. Anyone have a certain method or tips to help before I do the fronts/hatch?

park under a tree, roll down the windows, get in the hatch and close it and that's what Nate's told me about when he did it.

patience is your next best strategy

[jamesmc]

Tinted my rear windows 20% to help with the heat. I didn't expect it to be such a pain to do. Takes forever and they didn't turn out perfect as expected. Anyone have a certain method or tips to help before I do the fronts/hatch?

[inkswitch]

finished making my speaker mount and put the metal pipe thing that the coolant goes threw<had to get a new one>