Recent content by 1WildRT

The way to get accurate reading in a bore like that is with a bore attachment... It allows you to reach in the bore & have the indicator read without being at an odd angle..

You can hang the crank off the side of the table to machine it.. But why would you... Snout in the chuck, use a live center in the tailstock to support the flange end of the crank while setting up a steady rest... Remove live center & bore the damn thing.. And yes, now that it's done throw...

Welcome! Nice Dart!!

Accept the OP is discussing block sanding which occurs before paint... What you are describing is color sanding which occurs after paint... If you are trying to correct bad body work with color sanding you are on a collision course with disaster... The car has to be straight before paint.. If...

Really? That may be his opinion but I drive my cars a lot more than that... Always have... I use to enjoy working on them, these days I'd much rather go for a cruise....

Funny thing is even Amazon will ship pretty good spray bombs to Ca.... Neighboring state... If they catch you the fines can get ugly... But they don't seem to pay quite as much attention to paint materials as they do to ammo....

Supposed to since around 2003... I still have some DBU & DBC plus a few gallons of Delstar....

I'm sure you see it to a lesser extent, but out here in California every time you learn to like/trust a product it gets outlawed... I have paints and primers I bought five years ago that the reducer/activator/catalyst can't be sourced anymore... I've brought products back while on business...

I hadn't specified where exactly...

You should have left a deposit...

Can't say what was used on an early A but every B & E body stick car I've worked on had #10 screws... In the case of the shift boot posted there would be three pan head screws with captive washers below the chrome trim ring and three oval head countersunk screws retaining the trim ring..

Yeah, I know it's long, I broke it up into a few segments... Every time I thought I would skip ahead something cool popped up...

Well... It was decoded as W11.... But while close it's not in the correct location to be a W code.... The codes are in alphabetical order... And VX5 would come before W11.... The preceding code is N76 so it's not an N code N11 would precede N76... I'm going with R11 which is an AM Radio.....

Primer designed for aluminum.... https://www.amazon.com/So-Sure-TT-P-1757-Chromate-Primer-0084-348/dp/B0F7HQRL2N/?tag=fabo03-20 That said I agree sand in line with the fins... I also agree as much as I like my blast cabinet you gotta be damn careful blasting stuff that could potentially...