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I'm painting antique cars (on which a base/clear would be incorrect), farm implements and shop equipment with single-stage urethane. I sure wish I knew of someplace that offered good prices on decent-quality paint. Probably this would be an online store rather than a bricks and mortar one(?)...

I've been spraying quite a bit of epoxy primer, and I had thought that spraying lacquer thinner or acetone between uses would suffice to keep it clean inside. That was wrong. The epoxy paint did build up inside the passages of the gun, despite spraying lacquer thinner each time after I used...

I painted the underside of one of my Mopars with Nason Ful-Poxy 491-12 epoxy primer and then, dangit, life intervened and I didn't top coat it in a timely fashion (48 hours)! To make matters worse, the surface of the underside of the body is very irregular, with many flutes and louvers pressed...

Have you ever used Delfleet to seal the underside of your car after abrasive blasting, and if so, how did you like it? Think it will last for a long time?

Remember these, off '70s and '80s Mopars? Can these be repaired by brazing with brass rod?

Please forgive me, guys, if this question is rather clueless! I'm a newbie to auto glass work. I'm replacing the rear window on my '70s Dodge that has locking-strip type rubber. I intend to use 3M 08509 glass bedding compound to seal the rubber to the body. Where should I place the bead of...

If I just want to remove light surface rust and dirt from sheet metal parts that I have already stripped, prior to priming them, what is the best kind of Roloc disc to use? What disc should I use to make the metal clean and shiny without scratching it too much? Bristle disc, flat disc or edge...

Attached is a picture of the driver's door latch post on my '77 B200 Sportsman SE, which I have owned since new and is in pretty good shape. The latch post is composed of the inner post, a thin plastic tube over the inner post, and a thin wall steel tube as the outer part of the post. My inner...

More on Mopar front door window installs (courtesy of ImperialCrown on allpar.com): You've got to follow the correct order of installation (assuming everything, including weatherstrips, is removed from the door): Lube up the window's end channel that is mounted permanently at the latch end of...

Just suppose that some guy [(not me; I would never do a thing like that) yeah, right!] sandblasted some fenders and then Life Got In the Way so he didn't prime them right away, and they picked up surface rust from sitting around. Would you sandblast them again, go over them with a Roloff disc...

I'm trying to find either a replacement door mirror head, or just the glass, for a Lil Red Express or a Warlock truck, where the glass is rectangular and measures 7" x 5". Would anybody know where to find this? Thanks a lot.

1977 Sportsman SE B200 with a permanent fiberglass camper top. The interior of the fiberglass top is "lined" (finished smooth and glossy). I would like to glue wood cleats to the inside of the top and screw the front panels of the cabinets to them in order to strengthen the way the cabinets are...

I am just about to start replacing the trim on my '62 Valiant V-200 resto-mod which was recently repainted. I never did like the way the trim dug into the paint the last time I installed it, so I was thinking that maybe this time I would install plastic edge trim on the pieces whose edges come...

I had a body shop paint the car because I am not that good at paint and body work. They used Sikkens paint, and I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. It is a lot better than my earlier 20-footer job. They also installed front end braces and front and rear torque plates that tie into...

I recently installed the Auto Body Specialties front and rear torque plate kit in my '62 Valiant V-200 more-door: http://www.autobodyspecialt.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=MP-AR2829 Although the kit is advertised as fitting '63-'76 Valiant and Dart only, I found not only that it...

A few years after I painted my '62 V-200 the paint began to craze, and it got worse and worse over time. It's been about 11 years since then and a re-paint is well overdue. I believe the old paint crazed because the primer and surfacer layers shrank, but I don't understand why they did. I...

I recently bought some restoration parts for my Dodge from a fairly well-known Mopar resto parts specialist who shall remain nameless. They were pretty expensive, but I didn't know where else to get them, so I paid the asking price. When the parts arrived, they were all in plastic bags marked...

Every day I would go out to the shop to block and prime the Toad, and every day I would say to myself, "Today I should be able to spray color!" But every day I was wrong. Every day it needed more blocking and priming. Finally one day I was able to spray the color. It was a good day!

Anybody know where I can get these two kinds of trim clips? They're for attaching the inner fender-to-frame splash shields on a Chrysler body-on-frame vehicle. Any other information, such as the proper names or part numbers of these clips, would also be greatly appreciated.

I'm asking this question here because all the old Dodge truck websites and groups that I've found are pretty lame, and you guys really seem to know your Mopar stuff, so maybe you'd know the answer to this question. What are those plastic or rubber-impregnated cardboard(?) splash shield thingies...

Well, demonsizzler says it's time to rebuild the ThermoQuad on the 440 in my '78 Dodge D-300 dually, so I thought I'd do an engine compartment refresh at the same time (remove and paint the intake manifold and valve covers; clean out the choke heat passage in the right cylinder head; etc.). I...

I'm no great shakes as a body man, but it seems to me that 36 or 40 grit discs on an electric D/A takes the old paint off about as fast as I'd ever want to, plus the discs last a long time and never clog up. It also does a creditable job of removing bondo. When I start to see primer in the...

I have often read that the '60-'62 A body was narrower than the '63 and later unibodies. How much narrower? Are the specifications available anywhere on the 'net?