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You have to pull the speedometer cable (pliers) and gear drive assembly retaining bolt (10mm socket) the drive assembly has indicator marks for your oil level. Clean the tranny housing as best you can to avoid debris in your tranny and you'll need a 2' or so length of hose attached to your funnel to fill it.
You need to remove the entire spendle assembly. Lay it on an open vise and with a correct size rod, from the inside, drive the center out until the rotor and outside bearing drops out. Do not disturb the bearing. Remove the four bolts from the rotor, which you can now get too and the rotor will come off. Replace the rotor with a new one and lay the spendle assembly on a hard surface and carefully drive the shaft back into the spendle. If you have a "slide puller" you can actually remove the assembly while the spendle is still on the car.
Replace the speedo head assembly. It is a sealed unit, with no servicable parts. If the speedometer is working, then the cable and the speedo drive gears are working. The failure must be inside of the speedo head assembly itself.
The "Owner's Manual" says to add it through the speedometer drive gear assembly. Remove the speedometer cable from the drive assy. then remove the drive gear assembly and add until just slightly above the nylon gear of the assembly when the car is on level ground. So in essence, you use the speedo drive gear assembly as a dipstick.My Owners Manual states that you can use GL4, GL5, or Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF) Type F in the manual gearbox. I'm not sure which would be the "best" fluid for this manual transmission, but I'd go with GL4, or equivalent. Redline and Amsoil make excellent synthetics that are GL4 equivalent. It's a little hard to find the GL4 but I got some StaLube from my local NAPA Auto Parts.Also, the Owner's Manual says to replace it every 30,000 miles which seems like overkill to me. I do mine every 100,000 miles whether it needs it or not.
You will have to remove the front axle assembly to have enough clearance to remove the oil pan in vehicle.You will have to remove the front axle assembly to have enough clearance to remove the oil pan in vehicle.
A speedometer drive can be installed in the transmission, and the speedometer cable will attach here. You may need a new speedometer as they used a variety of drive ratios. The speedo drive is a standard part for the fh, and is readily available.
The speedometer cable.
The speedometer is cable driven.
Ford did not make a festiva for sale in the us in 1997. They made and sold an Aspire auto trans or straight drive
If it's a manual, you may have to remove the speedometer-drive assembly. That is the check/fill plug on most. It's located on top of the transmission, you can access it under the hood. Be careful, it's often rusted into the transmission to the point that it will need to be bored out
The rotor and hub is an assembly, you need to take the wheel off, remove the brake caliper, use a hex drive to remove the lockout assembly, then there is a special socket you need to use to remove the bolt holding the hub in place.
The complete hub and rotor assembly have to be removed in order to drive out wheel studs to separate the rotor from the hub. So, remove wheel, remove caliper, remove caliper bracket, remove axle retaining nut, remove 4 bolts holding hub assembly to spindle, dissconnect ABS sensor harness, remove hub assembly, remove all wheel studs then separate rotor from hub.