Older sockets and wrenches often use small type to designate size, making them difficult to read in dim light or with aging eyes. Here’s a tip to put the right tool in your hands a little faster.
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Removing Hardware from a Car Body
When stripping the hardware from a car, it is important that you take the necessary precautions to carefully remove each component. Craig Hopkins teaches you how to use a torch and a few hand tools to find and remove screws and other materials that are holding the hardware onto the body of the car. The…
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Classic Car Maintenance Tips: Priming the Oil Pump
Brent Ackley teaches you how to prime the oil system on a 1956 Chevrolet 150, demonstrating each of the essential classic car maintenance tips and techniques you’ll utilize to get the system properly up and running. He shows you how to use an air wrench to get the oil spread evenly before dropping in a…
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Protect Your Tablet When Working on Auto Repairs
Using a tablet in your shop in order to get information on auto repairs is very common. In this video, find out how to protect your tablet when working in the shop. George Vondriska recommends a product that works well.
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Aligning Valve Cover Gaskets With Bolt Holes
Very rarely do the gasket holes line up with bolt holes when you are replacing valve cover gaskets. Brent Ackley teaches a helpful trick to properly align these holes. Use this method to make sure you have a good seal.
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Once you engrave them paint the engraving. You can use any color you like. Also some fuel proof decals work well too (like used for gas R/C planes).
While I really appreciate the information from this website overall, some of the teaching here is pretty amateur. This one is the worst. While marking things is a great idea, a sharpie is a very temporary solution at best. After one use most of these marks will be gone. Give us something we can use please.
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I think it’s important to keep in mind that there are lots of different people with varying degrees of experience and skills. Having said that spending 47 seconds in this clip is not time wasted. For some people what may seem amateurish is really a revelation. Keep up the good work.
As soon as you get a little oil on there the Sharpie markings disappear. I’ve tried engraving with an engraving pen as well. Permanent but still hard to read.