It seems like all we talk about when working on Project Pile House is the rust and body damage it has.. but again today we’re covering the repair of more rust that’s on the truck. This time it’s on the sides of the fenders where the cab mounts attach to […]
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Chopping The Top On A 1950 Dodge Pick-Up – Eastwood’s Project Pile House- Part 3
In the last posts we had quite a mess, the roof was in numerous pieces, A-pillars didn’t line up, doors were in pieces, etc, etc. Fast forward a bit and the roof is one piece again. I decided to use the TIG 200 to weld the seam back up. I […]
Share your welding life with your welding wife!
Introducing our new line of “Lady Eastwood” MIG Welders! Just kidding, but… It might be a little difficult to think of your wife underneath a welder’s helmet, but more and more women continue to get into the field. In Australia, for example, the Queensland government launched a new “women-only” program […]
How to Make a Custom Running Board From Scratch- Project Pilehouse Edition
In one of our last posts we gave you some sneak peaks of the custom running board project we’ve been working on for Project Pilehouse. During the process we documented the full build and shared some of our secrets to help you build a similar project yourself for cheap. After […]
Customizing a Chevy Corvair Van Bumper to Fit Project PileHouse
PileHouse is starting to shape up and we can now envision what the truck will someday look like when it’s “done”. But I still felt that the front end needed “something more”. After staring at it over lunch one day, I decided that the truck needed a custom bumper to […]
Running Board Fabrication, A Front Bumper, and an Engine
In one of our last small updates we hinted at the running board project I had started on Project Pilehouse. Fast forward a little and we have just about completed the passenger side running board, complete with the outer skin we formed with the Eastwood Bead Roller, Electric Metal Cutting […]
Stretching the truck bed of PileHouse
When we last mentioned how we were lengthening the bed of PileHouse we had just cut the bed apart and braced it to fabricate the new panels. This was not an easy task, but it was made much easier after the project had spawned some new prototype products. Many of […]
How to Fill and Shave Unused Holes in Your Project
When building a custom, or resto-mod vehicle one of the most common modifications you can do is to “shave” or fill unused holes in the body of the vehicle. While I was waiting on metal to finish the Custom Running Board Build on Project Pile House, I decided to start […]
10 Tools That Make Auto Repair and Restoration Easier
If you’ve ever gone into a professional restoration or repair shop you’d be amazed by the size of the toolboxes that they have. Some of them are as big, heavy, and expensive as a car! We’ve found that when you ask the pros which tools they use most often, they […]