Laying paint is a pretty simple idea when you think about it. You spray your desired color over something and let it dry and live happily ever after right? Well that may be true if you’re painting a dog house, mailbox, or fencepost! It takes a little more than that […]
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Perfectly Powder Coated Wheels- 10 Tips to Make Your Wheels Look Great
It’s a known fact that a set of wheels can make or break a car. We’ve seen some of the biggest “junkers” become legendary with a nice set of wheels and a ride height adjustment. The opposite can happen when you have a nicely restored vehicle that has dirty, beat-up, […]
Eastwood Project of the Day- Soda Blasting a Valve Cover for Chrome and Powder
Many of us at Eastwood have numerous projects going on at a time. This is great for a few reasons, one of them is the chance to constantly be testing and using our products. This allows us to make our products better and also gives us experience in the use […]
Rebuilding front Suspension with a custom twist Part 2
In the last entry we showed you how to disassemble the front suspension on the S10 chassis that sits under Project Pile House. Once we had it all apart we began fitting the front air suspension. Air bags will allow the truck to drop all the way to the ground […]
Rebuilding the front suspension with a custom twist Part 1- Front air ride on a Chevy S10
After I got the custom rear air suspension built for Project Pile House, I could now move on to the front suspension. The rear was relatively easy since there was a ton of room under the bed, but the front isn’t so easy. After some research on mini truck websites […]
Media Blasting Basics- 5 Tips to make your blaster work better
Media Blasting is a pretty simple process when you break it down into the basics. You mix an abrasive media with high pressure air and shoot it out of a small orifice in a gun/nozzle. Media blasting is extremely effective if you make sure you follow some fairly simple tips. […]
5 New Unique Tools Your Toolbox is Missing- Tips to Make Auto Repair Easier
After disassembling, assembling, fabricating, and tinkering with so many projects over the years, I’ve found that there are a core group of tools that will get most any job done. But there are some tools that just make life so much easier, I decided to put a list together of […]
Welding Project With Eastwood TIG 200- Building Custom Strut Mounts
Anyone that follows our posts here will notice that I am a fan of lowered vehicles. Could it be my fear of heights? Honestly, I’m not sure, but everyone can agree a car or truck that’s “in the weeds” sure looks heavenly! As I get older I want my custom […]
How to Replace A Rusty Lower Door Skin
When looking over Project Pile House we started seeing a lot of spots where we needed to repair rusted panels on the body. When sizing it all up, we found that many of them could be replaced with the combination of some basic hand tools and our new Patch Panel […]