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[zocheyado]

Just got the festy~! although 2 things I noticed that were kinda odd, check engine light comes on BUT its only after you have driven it for about 5 or so minutes, and the temp gauge seems to always be on cold (assuming its not working) any idea what the check engine could be? and how hard is it to fix the temp gauge? thanks for any info!

[Zanzer]

Check to make sure the wire to the O2 sensor isn't broken. I've seen that on the last 3 cars I've worked on and it's really easy to verify

Or you could pull the codes and see what it's saying the problem is

[neanderpaul]

Probably a tstat replacement is in order. Does the needle move at all? There is a sticky called for those with barely an heat. You want a two stage tstat. Murray makes one. O'reillys sells it. The number is in that thread I think. I've posted it somewhere.

[zocheyado]

So I went to o'reilly to have them check the obd1 sensor thing but me nor the guy could find the plug in! where is it located on 1992 ford festiva GL? anyone who knows it would be great if you could describe it or show a picture, now back to armor all'ing the entire inside

[Zanzer]

He was probably looking for an OBDII plug. Most cars didn't get that until 96 and later. Ours are OBDI so you have to jump out connectors in the STI plug and then count how many times the CE light flashes.

Here's a link to a thread that helps explain the procedure.

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...ght=pull+codes

[Zanzer]

Here's another with more info and wire colors

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...+trouble+codes

[fastivaca]

Great find! Got it in plenty of time to make it to Westiva 2011. Kalispell to the meet location is only about 7 hours. We'd love to see you there

[zocheyado]

Well apparently the 2 were related, I thought the radiator might be low on fluid making it get hot, and we couldn't tell because of the temp gauge so we looked and it was soooo out of fluid, so we filled it up and I drove it all day and no light! so that was good, got alot of armor all, cleaned and vaccumed, now its time to fix the dent in the quarter panel!