The winter holiday season can be a tough time to pull away from family to work on personal projects. Unless, that is, your project lives at work. When the normal workflow falls apart with everyone’s vacation schedule, there’s usually a little spare time to sneak away to the shop. I […]
Mark just got the Trans Am’s 10-bolt Posi-Traction diff back from a local builder. Unfortunately, the axle housings weren’t exactly as paint-ready as he was expecting. But, with a little rust cleanup first, he got to work refinishing the whole dirty rear end. Watch as he preps the rusty metal, […]
In our last installment, we took the engine and transmission out of the Range Rover’s chassis and separated the two. For now, the transmission is sitting on the floor, but we did mount the engine to a proper stand. Over the course of a couple weekends, we’ve now stripped the […]
Winter is fast approaching, and that means only one thing. No, not Christmas shopping, though come to think of it, I should probably add that to the list. I was actually referring to the slate of projects I plan to tackle during the months without car shows and other events. […]
Our man Cody decided to lower the front end on his Volkswagen Beetle. To do so, he found a set of lowering collars for the front torsion beam assembly, but this required a bit of cleanup first. As with many projects, one thing leads to another, and before we knew […]
As Adam works through his C-10 project, his next job was to design and fabricate a custom cupholder mount. With a rough idea in mind, he sources some cupholder inserts and sketches out a bracket to support them. Using free Fusion 360 software, he formalizes the design and converts it […]
Over the last month or so, we’ve been busy peeling off the components attached to the rusty chassis of our 1993 Range Rover project. And we know, from a distance, this thing looks pretty bad. But the further we dig in, the more we’re surprised by just how solid the […]
Whether you’re overhauling an engine or tearing down a complete vehicle for restoration, keeping track of parts can be challenging. Especially when you’re knee deep in a pile of parts and don’t want to stop for sorting and labeling. It’s easy to tell yourself, “I’ll remember where that came from […]
A particular challenge of restoring a less-then-common vehicle is that not every worn-out part can be ordered from a catalog. Sometimes you need to hold onto your old parts for reference so you can re-make them yourself later. That’s the case with the original steel fuel lines and brake lines […]
