Some upgrades for Linda Blu

[freshtiva]

First day Ive had off in about a month. Getting to do my favorite thing, adding some upgrades. Im starting to put a dent in the pile on the upgrade table. Some pics from the ranch.




Mystery upgrade below:







Now Im off to route the washer hose. I hate that part.

[freshtiva]

Well Im all done. I swear running the hose up through the car for the rear window washer is the toughest upgrade to do. Ive done it three times now and I hate it. You can stick a fish wire in a hole and it goes into another diminsion in some other world. There must be a maze of channels through the back of the car. One thousand worm holes to different worlds. I finally got one wire to return from the unknown and got the hose ran. What a pain !! Thank goodness its done and it all works. Now to tend to my bleeding fingers.

[b8kedbeans]

I feel your pain bro. I had the same trouble and thought I had it handled but then the hose leaked fluid from the top when I tried the washer out. I had to buy some new hose from the hardware store and replace the old stuff. Good luck tending to your open wounds.

[joebreck117]

that mystery upgrade....
a ground wire for something?

[freshtiva]

^Ding, Ding, Ding.... we have a winner on the mystery upgrade. If you dont have a cargo light latch and want to just use your cargo light manually just plug it in like normal and add this ground jumper where the latch/switch would hook up.

[freshtiva]

Had a little more time this morning to work on the car. Have to be at work at midnight, getting ready for bed now at 2 pm, weird hours. Wish I could work on the festies all day for a living. Got the power mirrors wired up, added some chrome bling to the door handles and window crank ( need one more pair of the chrome window cranks.) Have you seen seat belts with the black plastic ends. I only have one other festiva with this feature, not sure what they are for ??

[SimonTuffGuy]

I believe those black plastic ends were added as a "safety feature"... I don't really know what they do though.

Casper had them on though... And my uncles 92 had them on too...?

[freshtiva]

Mud flaps and dome light today

[25Horseplay]

Nice! Another nicely optioned car in the making!!!!

[freshtiva]

Cargo light latch in. Got it today and it was in the car in 10 minutes. Wouldnt have taken so long except I had to clean it up and lube it real good. That was a hard item to find. Please excuse the noisely hatch strut, dont know whats up with that .

[FB71]

I believe those black plastic ends were added as a "safety feature"... I don't really know what they do though.

Casper had them on though... And my uncles 92 had them on too...?

they were a safety recall. They reduce the possiblity of the tang (male part of seatbelt latch) flexing over, causing the clasp to unlatch the tang, releasing the seatbelt. A small number of incidents of unlatching occured during side-impact collisions.

[freshtiva]

^ You'd think they would have been on all later festivas then ?? The ones I pictured are on a 1990. ??

[FB71]

the recall was on all 90-93 Festivas with passive restraints (motorized seatbelts).

I did a dozen or so when I was in the dealer.

[deathegg]

actually i remember getting a recall notice for my '88; for the same thing i think; never did get the recall done!

I may have to get a cargo light and some struts off of...something....for my hood. Going to the Pick-a-part Saturday to see what i can find!

[rolla4me]

I think i got 2-3 sets of these laying somewhere..