Help!!! Front End Trouble...

[gothguydante]

okay i got all kinds of troubles... my driver side sway bar bushing crumbled to pieces. also sometimes it sounds like a sewing machine.. did a oil change still makes the sound but not all the time.. lots of smoke when i start it up.. right driver side tire is back about an inch... and i can't find the sway bar bushing anywhere... and it only has 110k miles on it please help me i'm so lost.. i know some but not much...



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1990
Ford Festiva L
Automatic

[worfdog]

if you are talking about the sway bar bushing where it connects at the lower control arm, they can be gotten at advance auto parts. the smoking on start up after sitting a while is possibly bad valve stem seals. the noisy engine is most likely noisy hydralic valve lifters.some one else here can fill you in about those.

[jglutz]

I know NAPA has bushing http://www.napaonline.com
I would not drive the car until the reapirs are made on the sway bar.

The 'sewing maching' noise and burning oil....if tap..tap...tap...and not knock...knock...knock. And, if the noise and buring oil problems go together...probalbly in the valve train, a shot valve guide/seat.

[gothguydante]

it's not the control arm bushing it's the bushing on the sway bar that stabilizes the car. i can't even find one in a junk yard...

[worfdog]

the sway bar has two different bushings, the two that connect it to the body of the car,which are availlible from festiva motor sports, and the ones that connect it to the lower control arms.

[gothguydante]

Wofdog i freaking love you.....!!!!! it's only going to cost me 35 dollars for both!!!

oh yeah i need help setting my idle it's all fuged up if i put it in (N) it revs real high like i am pushing in the gas then stops then starts over then check engine light comes on... and it keeps going on and on...

[worfdog]

might want to check your oxygen sensor, i have read that a bad one can cause a simaliar problem,but i have never owned a running fuel injected festiva, but i am sure someone here will be able to help you diagnose the idle problem.