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I'm doing some horse trading and it looks like have ended up up with another Festy, or maybe two.
I drove one for about a block today, and it made this horrible scraping noise, like metal to metal, or maybe like I was dragging a square metal furnace duct under the car. I've been driving for over fifty years, and never have heard that kind of sound before.
The sound was not grinding (like gears) it was a metal on metal scraping, both going forward and reverse. It's a 1991 five-speed, and when I slipped the gearshift into neutral and coasted, the sound stopped. Shift lever wasn't hard to move, or anything like that.
Any ideas what this might be? Badly failed CV joint, maybe? Wheel bearings?
May be just a coincidence, but I found a ball bearing, (just one) about 10mm, at the end of the driveway.
White color, motor starts and runs fine, smooth, no smoke, odometer shows just 95,xxx has factory air, some underside rust, but otherwise nice straight body with no sign of body or paint work. Has some nice things like cruise control and right side (manual) mirror, so, I'd like to see if I can bring it back to life.
The other one I haven't seen yet, but is a 1989 fuel injected automatic LX I think. Air, split back seat, power mirrors, alloy twelve inch wheels.
Owner says it just quit one day and won't start. Owner says it has spark at the coil, but not at the plugs, timing belt new about a year ago. Any ideas?
Thanks. Any thoughts appreciated.
Onree in Nebraska
I drove one for about a block today, and it made this horrible scraping noise, like metal to metal, or maybe like I was dragging a square metal furnace duct under the car. I've been driving for over fifty years, and never have heard that kind of sound before.
The sound was not grinding (like gears) it was a metal on metal scraping, both going forward and reverse. It's a 1991 five-speed, and when I slipped the gearshift into neutral and coasted, the sound stopped. Shift lever wasn't hard to move, or anything like that.
Any ideas what this might be? Badly failed CV joint, maybe? Wheel bearings?
May be just a coincidence, but I found a ball bearing, (just one) about 10mm, at the end of the driveway.
White color, motor starts and runs fine, smooth, no smoke, odometer shows just 95,xxx has factory air, some underside rust, but otherwise nice straight body with no sign of body or paint work. Has some nice things like cruise control and right side (manual) mirror, so, I'd like to see if I can bring it back to life.
The other one I haven't seen yet, but is a 1989 fuel injected automatic LX I think. Air, split back seat, power mirrors, alloy twelve inch wheels.
Owner says it just quit one day and won't start. Owner says it has spark at the coil, but not at the plugs, timing belt new about a year ago. Any ideas?
Thanks. Any thoughts appreciated.
Onree in Nebraska
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