What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[neanderpaul]

Red is the worst for oxidizing but the best for popping after a good polish! Nice!

[Oren09]

I finished up the polishing and then waxed it.
Much improved over how it was.

Before


After


I just followed a procedure I found when googling "oxidized paint".
It was basically, use rubbing compound, then polishing compound, then wax.

[jbuck1975]

Changed out the temperature switch. Now my gauge works!

[Oren09]

Got an ignition switch with key from a Mazda MX-6.
Dome light from an Aspire.
Nothing good from the Festivas in Waco.. They were both beat up and tan/beige interiors.

Ordered valve seals.

Buffed it with rubbing compound and polish. Another coat on the hood and front fenders tomorrow followed by some wax.

[fastivaca]

Apologized to the Festiva for yelling at it last night (see earlier post).

Replaced block heater and while doing so discovered that one section of the air intake had partially collapsed so fixed that too.

The Festiva and I are both much happier now :toothy8:

[neanderpaul]

lol

[fastivaca]

^^ Ouch! I had that happen to me once (Jeep Comanche). Just replaced it with a core plug.

You do notice though, the thread is What have you done to your Festiva today!? and not What has your Festiva done to you today!? heheh

Sorry... I'll pay more attention next time

[walth]

^^ very interesting point!

[thered56]

^^ Ouch! I had that happen to me once (Jeep Comanche). Just replaced it with a core plug.

You do notice though, the thread is What have you done to your Festiva today!? and not What has your Festiva done to you today!? heheh

[fastivaca]

The block heater blew out of the block so that coolant pewked all over the road. Fortunately it was cold enough and I was close enough to make it home without too much trouble. Had to stop twice to add water. Will replace the block heater tomorrow!

[Oren09]

Installed a tach. I set my engine idle at 700RPM. I had it at 1100.. haha.
It's kind of rough (steering wheel vibration) at 700, but the cooling fan is always on. New fan switch in the mail.
What is the redline on the B3 engine?
Anything over 4000 in first or second sounds horrible.

[eurotiva]

Just replaced right rear spindle, and bearings. Also replaced passenger widow seal.

[200KGPGTP]

FINALLY finished the stripes(pics tomorrow hopefully) as well as tore out the god awful carpet and bedlinered the rear area. I'll do the floor pan on my next day/s off.

[89newb]

washed mine up to remove the pine pollen, replaced a coil, disty cap and rotor that was tracing between 1 and 4 for some strange reason, and went to set the timing on my motor I just set in and found out who ever worked on it previously must have got the timing off a tooth. I couldn't even get the marks close to the indicator with the disty cranked as hard as it would go. So tomorrow it get's a belt and tensioner and set correctly.

Why don't ya come up here to pa and time my festy while your at it lol.

[Oren09]

In the last week, I finished my Aspire rear beam swap, Modded the Cluster (instrument panel) lights, Repainted the back plastic, Cleaned it up.

Do you have pictures or a write up on what you did to the cluster lights?
They're kinda weak and odd looking.