Recent content by Tanker

Well that pretty much sucks. Thanks for the heads up. I still have quite a bit, so I'll have to be careful about how I use it.

I quit using testors tube glue when I was around 13 or 14 since it gives just about any finished model an unprofessional look. Liquid glues that flow like water and evaporate quickly leaving no trace behind are far easier to use and give much better results. As for paints, as others have...

Have you ever seen a good second generation Dodge Ram extended cab short bed kit? I’d buy one right now if I could find one.

I stripped my Duster using a sharp inch and a half wide chisel. The paint was so brittle it came off in tiny little pieces as fast as I could push the chisel.

Are these plates porcelain enamel, or are they just painted?

That's what puzzles me. The insurance companies keep these shops on a pretty tight leash with regards to how much time each job is allowed to bill. I'm offering time and material to do it right, without shortcuts, no time limit and I already have all of the patch panels. One would think this...

As you can see it's been a while since I've posted an update for this car. I manged to remove every last bit of paint from the cars exterior and brought it home to my garage. I need the patch panels welded into place and that's where I've hit a snag. Quite a few body shops in my area refuse to...

If it’s plastic coated and the plastic coating has fine crazing and looks dull, you can carefully sand the dull surface with 1000 or 1500 grid wet sand paper and water, then finish up using a fine polish like brasso or similar. This assumes the plastic is thick enough to be sanded in the first...

What is that trim made of? Can’t it be polished to restore the shine?

I don’t know how relevant this is to your situation, but my Duster was only six years old when I purchased it and it already had corrosion forming under the vinyl top. I had no idea that was an issue with these cars and if an army friend hadn't warned me about the potential I likely wouldn't...

Follow TrailBeast’s advice and put a jumper on the starter relay. That will tell you immediately if the starter is an issue.

Mine are one piece for each side, so they’re definitely available. It’s been too long though, so I can’t remember who made them.

I had this problem on my Duster years ago. The engine has a tendency to come to a stop in the same position when shut down, so when you start it the starter engages the same spot on the ring gear repeatedly. The teeth in that spot on the ring gear got rounded due to repeated use so that the...

This is one of the reasons I decided to leave the headers off and go back to stock manifolds with dual exhausts. In the eight or nine years that I had headers installed I went through several starters that failed because they got thoroughly baked by the headers. I also had a torsion bar snap...

Well that’s the puzzle, isn’t it? If the master cylinder piston is moving as he’s pushing on the brake pedal that fluid is going somewhere, so where is it going?