What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[Prafeston]

OOOohhhhhhhh

[TorqueEffect]

Put on all new brake shoes, and drum hardware, and free'd up the e-brake pivot again. This time I worked some brake lube into them so they don't seize again.

Ebrake works great again. I still can't figure out why the driver's side is grabbing better than the passenger, because I can definitely tell there is more drop on the drivers side when trying to take off with it engaged. It may be because they are two different drums with probably different wear. The PO only did something to the brakes on one side of the car, not the other so that is why they are different. I would get two new ones, but I really don't feel like paying for new bearings needlessly. Don't fix it if it ain't broke.

Going to rig up a toggle switch for the cooling fan tomorrow, thermostat switch was bad, and don't feel like stressing the jbweld by putting a wrench on the housing to get the old switch out. Unlike allot of people, I look at my temp gauge often so forgetting to flip the switch won't be a problem.

[getnpsi]

Autozone sold me the wrong valve cover gasket...I had to wait 3 hours for a backup car to arrive. I installed a tan tracer dome light that i aquired today, added a custom cargo light, rear view mirror from my dodge neon, replaced fuel filter. Then I decided to replace the thermostat...big mistake...I now need a housing, and upon searching these housings are very hard to come by...older kia rio? BP? what are people doing who cant find a festiva or aspire piece at short notice?

wow the member above me jbwelded their housing. I guess that works? LOL!

[neanderpaul]

Finally took my BP/G25MR car to Skeeter's Keeper for finishing.

[TorqueEffect]

Autozone sold me the wrong valve cover gasket...I had to wait 3 hours for a backup car to arrive. I installed a tan tracer dome light that i aquired today, added a custom cargo light, rear view mirror from my dodge neon, replaced fuel filter. Then I decided to replace the thermostat...big mistake...I now need a housing, and upon searching these housings are very hard to come by...older kia rio? BP? what are people doing who cant find a festiva or aspire piece at short notice?

wow the member above me jbwelded their housing. I guess that works? LOL!

Yeah, it could work. Mine is actually jbwelded to the head because I broke a bolt off, but depending on the breakage on the housing itself, you might be able to jbweld it.

About Autozone selling you the wrong gasket, it doesn't surprise me. I work at an autozone, and have only been there a month, and have had many people get the wrong parts because the inventory system blows. They don't even list cartridge filters for the V6 Ford Fusion, only spin-ons which the car doesn't use, they also list the spin-ons for the 2.3l 4 cylinder, which again it doesn't use.

Blame the dumb-$#!&s that do the inventory at the headquarters, not us behind the counter at the one down the street, we have no control over it. Unless you bring the old one in to match, don't be surprised when you get the wrong part.

[getnpsi]

my receipt said the right part, but my box said buick. the part number for the buick wasnt backwards or the similar numbers at all, I guess they stocked them wrong and he didn't check. Also partially my fault for not looking when i left either, and more my fault to look before the car was apart. GRR.

Oh i totally blew this one, It broke along the bolt hole where the buldge is. the thermostat shifted, I did it in a hurry because I was already mad about having to wait and thought I was doing the best i could with my time. should have just showered and gone to dinner with the GF after the autozone return and done VC tomorrow.

[getnpsi]

if that third ear is just floating there do we need it?

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=819129&cc=1210026

I credit my research to tracking down the thermo gasket is used on datsuns, kias and GM s15 trucks

[greywolf200]

Finally took my BP/G25MR car to Skeeter's Keeper for finishing.

That's going to be a really good looking car Paul. See it at Madness?

[bravekozak]

Thanks for the great picture with the fender off. I needed that for retaping and wire loom installation. I will be taking my driver fender off this week to finish the harness install and plug in the power antenna.

[neanderpaul]

That's going to be a really good looking car Paul. See it at Madness?

Hope so!

[getnpsi]

Today i installed a 323 therm housing and s style hose. Im back to where i was wednesday lol. Btw most nissan therm housings thst are the same bolt holes dont clear the distributor, those that do hit the water pipe above the starter, so i have 2 to return to orielys. Should have gone coilonplug right? Im a failure

[TorqueEffect]

rigged up my cooling fan toggle switch.

[johnmt]

Been working on replacing the clutch in my '88LX over the last couple days. Just about had the trans out today when I couldn't get the passenger axle out. I did some prying and jerking on the half-shaft since it needs replacing anyway. I banging on it pretty hard when I happened to look under the car. I had moved the front of the car such the it was very close to coming off the jack stands. After jacking the car up and moving the jack stands under it again, I did what I should have done in the first place, read a few threads about it here and used the rotate and retry method - it took a while but it popped right out.

[bravekozak]

I always use solid 8" blocks of redwood. I will not chance getting under a car without the redwood or Superman. That's the very large screwdriver and tap around like you are ringing a bell method (to center the circlip).

[johnmt]

The jackstands are solid and old, made out of Model T or A axle housing. I was sliding the car on the top plate, a hazard of a really light car, I guess.