The Holidays are approaching. Heck who am I kidding, they are HERE. So even though I've thanked all of you in the past I'd like to do so once again. We can't do this without your support and help. You folks are what makes Autorestomod fun and doable.
I'd also like to thank the staff: Vinnie, Gina, Carra, Carla and Micah for all that they do. Though small, the group is tight knit and we all enjoy each others company. As we grow, I can only hope that the rest of the people we bring on board will enjoy working here as much as we all do.
Have a safe and wonderful Holiday folks. Spread peace and joy where you can.
Jeff Ford
No I mean literally crap.
Today I went out to install the wiring into the trunk of the 1967 Mustang Nightmistress. And found, poop. Bird poop to be exact. W-T-F. Enclosed garage, car hasn't seen direct sun in 9 months and somehow on the three days this year that I flung the doors wide a bird zoomed in and pooped on the back glass of the Mustang. Who knows, maybe I (literally) scared the crap out of it. Or maybe, just maybe, it likes Chevys...
Sometimes we like to do stuff that we don't feel is interesting enough to air. Thus, yesterday we decided to get a head start on the install of the power steering pump brackets for our 5.0 serpentine system. Looks simple enough, right? Ummmneeeeww.
For some reason our lives are filled with "you can't do something without doing something else." The problem? well, with or dual fan set up from Summit Racing installed on our NPD radiator, we found that the bolts won't have enough room to go into the cylinder head unless they are already on the pump. And with a fresh coat of semi gloss black paint from Eastwood on them they were going to be easily nicked until the paint dried.
To top that we need to modify the AC/power steering bracket for our hip, new Classic Auto Air Sanden compressor...and THAT we DO want to film. SO, our solution? Star Trek.
And no I'm not talking about Vinnie.
We have been struggling with the stainless fuel line that goes from the pump to the carburetor on our 1967 Mustang Fastback--a lot. We've wrecked 20 feet of
Summit Racing stainless 3/8-inch line, grumbled and whined whacked it with a rubber mallet, thrown sections and generally not been happy campers.
Until yesterday. Yesterday we got in a tool from
Eastwood that was, at $30ish dollars, well worth the price of admission. That tool is the tubing bender #12435 shown below.
This thing has made the bending process a breeze. We've shown you in the past how we bent lines using a hand bender and a rubber mallet. This thing does it like budda. Good thing too, since we've only got about 3 feet of stainless tubing left...
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