Designed in house by our R&D team the SCT will strip and remove paint, rust,fillers and more. With so many options for drums on our Contour SCT we figured it best to bring you this article to explain what can be done with each wheel. The finishing wheel which is […]
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How to Fill and Shave Chevy C10 Gas Filler Hole
When building a custom vehicle one of the most important things is cleaning up the original design of the vehicle and doing modifications that make it look better, operate safer, and perform better. Because of that it’s no surprise that most pickup trucks with gas filler necks in the cab […]
Bead Roller Buyers Guide
If you’re considering buying a bead roller it’s probably because you’re doing some metal fabrication like making floor pans, wheel tubs, or bomber seats and want to add some strength and style to the metal. Eastwood offers a few sizes and styles of bead rollers so let’s check them out and make sure you get the right one for your job.
How to Check and Adjust Car Tire Air Pressure
Today we’re going to talk about getting your tires properly inflated. This is going to give you the best fuel economy and it’s also going to give you the best tire wear. Most vehicles are always going to have a recommendation in the door or you can check in the owners manual. A tech tip is you want to check the pressure with the tire “cold”. This means the car has completely cooled down and isn’t hot from driving. Measuring that way will give you the best reading possible.
How to Remove a Dent in A Car without Damaging the Paint
How confident are we in the Eastwood paintless dent removal kit? So confident that Ryan hit the quarter panel of his perfectly straight GMC Denali with a hammer just to show he could pull the dent out and make it straight again!
How to Remove Paint Scratches in a 3 Step System
Here at Eastwood people often ask us what’s the best way to polish a car so we asked an expert who laid out two methods using our random orbital polisher. Depending on how much time you want to invest you can use a one-step process that will move swirls and scratches from the paint or you can opt for a more in-depth three-step process which will achieve an even more brilliant finish. Kevin is showing a three-step process in this article. If you want to see the one-step process you can view that tech article here: https://www.eastwood.com/garage/eastwood-chatter/one_step_paint_polish/
How to Polish Paint in 1 Step
Here at Eastwood people often ask us what’s the best way to polish a car so we asked an expert who’s laid out two methods using a random orbital polisher depending on how much time you want to invest you can use the one-step process that will remove swirls and scratches from the paint or you can opt for a more in-depth three-step process which will achieve an even more brilliant finish
How to Make Door Jambs From Scratch- Eastwood Elite Shrinker Stretcher
In this tech article we’re working on a Model T roadster project that started out as a pile of parts. With any type of project like this you’re going to run into areas where there’s just no metal at all and we need to make it from scratch so we’re going to be making a door sill and door jamb area on this vehicle.
How to Do An Under Hood Restoration on A Classic Truck
If you’re looking for specialty paints and coatings you can probably get them at Eastwood. We’re going to show you we restored the entire engine compartment on a 1979 Ford Pickup Truck. We used Eastwood 2k Aero spray coatings a lot in this project so we’ll start of by discussing […]