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Brake Bleeding Made Easy!- Eastwood Brake Bleeding Kit

Dec 30th, 11 / 2 Comments

Normally when I do brake work on a car I dread the moment when I have to ask a friend, family member, neighbor, etc for help pumping the brake pedal. Not everyone gets the same enjoyment out of bleeding brakes and getting a nice firm pedal as we do! It can be a tedious process, especially if the person pumping the pedal makes an error and pumps the pedal with the bleeder screw open, allowing air to be sucked back into the system. This will make you start all over, and cause unneeded extra work.

Eastwood Brake Bleeder

Once again here at Eastwood we worked to make your life easier when completing an often tedious job. Our new Eastwood Brake Bleeder Kit allows you to bleed your brake system simply and without any help from the wife, kids, neighbor, etc! Our bleeder kit allows you to create a vacuum at the caliper or slave cylinder, and pulls air out of the system. This can be easily done at the bleeder without the need to jump back and forth from the pedal or reservoir to the bleeder screw. We know this isn’t a product you may use frequently, so we are offering it at an extremely affordable price. This means it will pay for itself after just one use (just exchanging dinner for a few minutes of pedal pumping from your wife will be more costly!).

Eastwood Brake Bleeder Kit

This brake bleeding kit compliments all of our other Eastwood Brake Tools, and will make even the toughest brake jobs a breeze!

As always, contact us with your product ideas for anything you could use to make a job in your shop easier!

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Whole lot of cutting going on in here

Dec 5th, 11 / 0 Comments

Late last week I spent some time cutting the bed apart to stretch it to give a more “balanced” look when viewing the truck from the side. I know a lot of people aren’t agreeing, but I think in the end it will be hard to tell it was lengthened at a first glance. I took some time with the angle grinder and some thin cutting discs, removing the front portion of the bed right behind the stake post. This spot should be the easiest to blend the new panel into. After stiffening the bed up with some flat bar and rebar, and making some temporary bed mounts, we can now work on making the patch panels as well as beginning work on the permanent bed mounts and the bed floor itself. Lots of work to happen over the next few weeks!

1950 Dodge Pickup Project

Johnny Hunkins and Popular Hot Rodding Magazine Use Eastwood Malibu Sunset Metallic

Nov 21st, 11 / 0 Comments

Johnny Hunkins from Popular Hot Rodding magazine has been using a ton of Eastwood products on his recent 1968 Chevy Nova Project. He sent us over some pics of our Sunset Metallic Orange paint he chose and some early sprayouts of the jambs, trunk, etc, and we think it is going to look great! Keep up the great work and follow Johnny’s progress on his blog. We’re excited to see how this turns out in the end!

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Project Pile House has a Floor

Nov 18th, 11 / 2 Comments

Today is a big day for Pile House. It has probably been 20 years or more since this truck has had a solid floor. Since I decided to choose a less-than-common truck, there isn’t much for replacement panels, and since it is a bit of a “mutt” anyways, I opted to just fabricate my own floors with some sheet metal from our friendly local metal shop.

The floor from first glance didn’t look that bad, I mean most of it was still there, which is pretty commendable for how this truck sat for 20+ years. But what you can’t see well in a picture, is how thin the metal left was. So thin it would start to tear if you put any weight on the floor. Because the cab mounts are tied into the front floors, I choose to weld some new pans in. I made sure to tie it into the parts of the truck that are solid, like the firewall and B-pillar.

After some work with the Angle Grinder and the Versa Cut Plasma Cutter I had the old floor out, and I was fabricating the replacement floor.

After cutting out the metal to fit around the transmission and the back of the engine, I got it all welded in place with help from the Eastwood MIG 175. Now that it is tied into the cab mount plates I made, and the firewall, the floor is much, much stronger than before. Once the final drivetrain is in place I’ll be making covers for the openings in the floor and firewall.

Next I will be burning out the holes in the cab mount plates in the floor and in the cab mount towers so that I can bolt the cab on and off of the chassis, then make bolt-on mounts for the front end. Stay tuned!

1950 Dodge Pickup Project

Parking Lot Gems- A Weathered Mach 1 Mustang

Nov 15th, 11 / 2 Comments

When I was out to lunch today, this is one of those cars, that even from 100 yards across the parking lot, caught my eye instantly. You see, you just don’t see automotive shapes like this anymore. I eventually followed and found it sitting outside of the local supermarket. Believe it or not this looks to be a real ’69 Mach 1 Mustang. Somewhere underneath the bondo, duct tape, etc there is a legendary Ford Muscle car. I was on a tight schedule and couldn’t wait to chat cars with the owner.. but I can only hope they have plans to restore this car to it’s former glory (it would be convenient having the entire Eastwood inventory minutes from where he grocery shops!).