What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Gomez]

yesterday evening I was driving my Festy out on some country roads looking for other Festivas, Aspires, Capris, EGT's etc when I came up on this very large mudhole. No water just mud taking 75%of the road. It had been 75*+ all day so I figured it would be hard enough for my little car to get across. Well my left tire started spinning as soon as the whole left front of the car bottomed out when it sank. Luckily it was downhill so it eventually came out.

Long story short I got my Festiva stuck.

[91blufestiva]

^yup got it all figured out lol, at the same time I'll be putting in all brand new EGT tie rods, festy LCA's, automatic aspire rotors, EGT calipers/pads, and LCA bushings. I should be set to go lol. But Jess, you see you have the advantage of non-salted roads haha. I've changed my front struts before, breeze in the park for me. I'm just worried as heck about those lower strut bolts on my aspire axle... :/

[1990new]

^ nice Jess!

I ordered some rear struts and steering rack bellows. and i'm nervous as all heck to replace the struts...

Thanks Josh.

For me the rear struts were easier than the front struts to replace. Been a while since I replaced them but it seem like I had a little problem getting the top nuts off the old ones though. (I have a set of spring compressors and they came in handy.) I'm sure someone here knows a way to do it without them (tiedown straps maybe)?

After I replaced the steering bellows on one of mine, I had an alignment done.
Be sure to mark the exact position of the tie rod ends before you remove to put the new bellows on.

[freshtiva]

^ nice Jess!

I ordered some rear struts and steering rack bellows. and i'm nervous as all heck to replace the struts...

Its all down hill once you get the lower strut bolts off. Start spraying them now.

[walth]

I put my exhaust back together the other day. still leaking somehow...what a pain. but my aspire manifold isn't leaking anymore. I "exhaust putty'd" it. worked really well!!

went to the JY today and found some 80+ dollar raybans! I like em too! lol

also bought a white 626 var int column switch and a complete gray escort console.

[91blufestiva]

^ nice Jess!

I ordered some rear struts and steering rack bellows. and i'm nervous as all heck to replace the struts...

[1990new]

Replaced the front sway bar bushings. Link to Pictures.

[DrMaxwellEdison]

pulled the crank pulleys off to get to the front seal in the oil pump.....

[Oren09]

Mine's from Dec 02 and it has cotter pins on the rear spindles.

Anyway.
Today I got it inspected.
Passed Texas emissions. I was kind of nervous about that, especially with how my car was burning oil for the first few weeks I was driving it.

[kumalaba]

you should drill it like the aspire spindle so it's cotter pinned. huge upgrade

good idea! tks!

[Damkid]

I tweaked my clutch bracket so it's a smoother feel to it

[neanderpaul]

Getting ready to head out to dad's garage. Going to put a fuel pump/float sensor assembly on Jack's latest festiva - a black sport!!! Spoiler and sport interior!

Then doing the full aspire swap on cream puff and a special James Bond trailer hitch. Pics to follow.

[htchbck]

^ I just realized a couple weeks ago that the spare '93 rear beam I had leftover from doing an Aspire swap for another member a while back has the cotter pin setup. I'm rebuilding that whole assembly with all new parts to go on my wife's car, and then I'll put the so-so rebuilt (new bearings and resealed wheel cylinders) beam off of hers onto my white car Oh, and today I tinted the next-to-last window for the white car. May drop the motor and half blown trans in tonight so I can do the HG since I don't have an engine stand lol.

[walth]

you should drill it like the aspire spindle so it's cotter pinned. huge upgrade

[kumalaba]

worked on my daughters festy last night,added new rear spindle,bearings, now need new drum & brakes, will finish up tonight.