crashed my festiva

[firebush357]

The Bearing goes on first then the Washer, it also looks like you have the bearing on upside down. On a side note, There looks to be a good amount of grit in the bearing grease and that is not a good thing...

[walth]

Andy, pm me your address, maybe I'll come up in the morning and help you out. I'll get up earlier than today.


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[fudge]

hahaha that did the trick! thanks guys. pmed chris. going to class and then more progress later.

[fudge]

Chris and I made some progress today! thanks a ton walth!
I got my car aligned and then took it to a local body shop to get a quote and have them check it out. They just eyeballed it but they think I should just replace the drivers side lca (it's bent) and they think that might be the only problem. they did not see any damage to the frame or anything like that.
That sounds wayyyy too good to be true!
I am going to put my car back together but I dont want to use all these rusty nuts and bolts. Anyone know where to buy the 10mm, 12mm, 14mm, etc hex screws for our cars? Mostly for the front end like the fender, fender guard, lights, and everything. Havent looked around too much but I'm gonna search the web and the forums.

[FestYboy]

I agree, it's too good to be true. If the LCA, which is a thick piece of cast iron, is bent, you can bet so are other things.

[fudge]

festyboy you said earlier that you saw damage to the forward member support, how can you tell?

[ryanprins13]

Im not sure exactly how you crashed but i highly doubt there is no frame damage from the photos you posted.
You cant eyeball frames. The shop is probably seeing a cheap car and all they think you need is for it to have all 4 wheels pointing the same direction.

a modern car can go into a diamond shape just from a hard curb hit to one tire. Thats a pain to pull out and many shops will just get the wheels pointing straight and call it good.

99% sure your frame is out of factory alignment past the salvage inspection tolerances, just up to you if you feel you need it straight.

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[FestYboy]

festyboy you said earlier that you saw damage to the forward member support, how can you tell?

A corner hit with hood misalignment and no damage to the hood usually equals frame shift. Plus all the other outer visual evidence.... It's like how I knew that the bumper support was ruined and the mount twisted from your first pics before you pulled it apart.

Check the squareness of the forward member below the battery.

[walth]

He's coming down to skeeters in the morning and we're going to try to assess it.


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[Skrapbob]

My car had identical LCA. The wheel was pushed back and took the sway bar mount with it. See page 2 and 3 of "hoopty build thread" https://fordfestiva.com/forums/showt...ghlight=hoopty

[fudge]

Dang Bob it looks like you were in a similar situation last year. I read a good amount of that thread and seeing what happened to your car to how good it looks now is really inspiring. Hopefully my car can make a similar comeback to yours!

[Skrapbob]

We are all pulling for you! You have a nice car!

[walth]

Any updates Andrew?

[Greywolf]

RE: Post #85

Did the sway bar survive that?