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Thanks! That's what I need. Are they rubber pads that go under the blocks and on top of the welting?

A few years ago, I bought a '29 roadster body from Brookville for a project started ages ago. I have a question about how the body blocks go in. It came with an assortment of blocks that mount between the frame and body. I'm working with the next to rearmost. The drawing shows it with a slight...

I just found the hardener for the paint I wanted to use. The hardener had hardened into a lump a bit bigger than a golf ball in the can. I wound up using my new paint and hardener but it didn't come out as nicely as the original stuff. (It's gotta be my fault...)

Rotorwrench: Thanks for the heads up on polyurethane and acrylic products! I'll have to see what I have with the stuff I recently bought.

Thanks all! I'm pretty sure I have an idea now. Pete

How critical is it to use the appropriate same manufacturer hardener with paint? I have some paint that I bought locally (expensive) a few years ago and now I have to repair some damage to one of the parts I used it on. I found the paint but I haven't located the hardener. I do have some paint...

For what it's worth, I always drill about an 1/8" hole in the thermostat. Years ago, I had an old GMC pickup and the temperature always would get way up there as the engine warmed up. Then, it would plummet, start rising again and keep repeating the cycle. I attributed this to the thermostat...

I had a ***** block and crank kicking around for ages. I was gonna build an engine but found out what it was going to cost. A guy came through the neighborhood hood picking up scrap. It's gone. (I may have to revise my signature below...)

I know I've read it in the past (I forget where) but original frames were subject to being bent. If a driver has a tank full of gas and a spare tire mounted back there, all of that weight is hanging out there a good distance from the rear crossmember. Traveling at a good speed and hitting a...

Just off the top of my head, if the fame horns are going to be covered by those "frame horn cover pieces", it might be possible to shim the tank up. (Probably a bad suggestion.)

Forgive me for not having read all the texts but my take is that the software that's used for this forum is ancient and it goes back to the the days when memory was expensive. If one has a ton of large format images, it takes a lot of money to store that data on a site that can be accessed by...

What, pray tell, is a BOT?

So sad. I'll miss his posts.

I've been retired for about 16 years now and I hate to say it, but Covid was the biggest help for getting anything done on my Ford. No meetings to go to, no nuthin to interrupt, and car parts and paint were "vital."

aje: Go to Petehoovie's post above your last post, click on his name. That should allow you to email your pictures to him and he would most likely be happy to post LARGE SIZE images here.

I have an old Chevy coupe that I used to drive 7 days 52 weeks a year. And, then it sat in a garage for a long time. I dragged it out, took the body off, refurbished the running gear and put the body back on with shot paint and dirt in the fender wells. Some people tell me to paint but way more...

I've stopped into a couple of big box stores as well as our local parts purveyor looking for the ever popular 1/2" x 9/16" open end wrench. All they stock are combination wrenches. If you have to separate two parts held together with a 5/16" bolt and nut, you'd need two 1/2" combination...

Wow! My questions are answered! Thanks! (I probably won't be getting one but it would be nice to know if anyone near by does this!)

They show it doing all kinds of neat things. Must be expensive!

I see a lot of “reels” on FaceBook showing laser welding. They make it look so easy! Do any of you Barners do laser welding? Comments? Thanks!