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paint to bond. At this point, a cataylzed, two-part seam sealer is laid over the seam between the new ...

FINISHING FLOORS How to produce a factory finish after installing floor pans The body work is finished on ...

E especially if the car is an early fastback Mustang. Regardless of the make of barn find, nearly all of t ...

The left end of the weld has been ground down; the right area of the weld shows the rough bead and t ...

The grinder used to smooth the weld. The weld ground smooth and ready for a coat of filler. The floor pan re ...

such as the fenders and door, with the application of body filler over the welds. To minimize the amount ...

The dual-action (DA) sander employed in this project. Sanding the filler requires different methods, de ...

Spreading the seam sealer with a brush. Note tape on each side of the seam to direct its applicati ...

The bedliner material is part of a system. Following the directions on the package yields just the look t ...

employed. Since the bedliner material must be sprayed with high pressure, it is very messy an ...

The Mustang body ready for paint. Notice where the black bedliner material was sprayed; the areas of gray ...

SECTION THREE MECHANICAL ...

T IGNITION TIMING Figure 1 here are plenty of things that can go wrong with a traditional automotive ...

degrees of timing can be reported in distributor degrees or crankshaft degrees. Typically, distributor specification ...

The centrifugal timing is a function of the centrifugal mechanism. If it is not correct, it can be fixed by c ...

and the carburetor linkage off the fast idle cam and set to the correct idle speed. After these conditions are ...

LAPPING THE MODEL A Even new babbitt bearings can benefit from lapping process A Ford Model A babbitt bearing b ...

E When it comes to rebuilding a prewar engine, restorers often prefer original babbitt bearings to th ...

method of preparing the surface of babbitt bearings, oil may still pass through the tiny grooves in the bearing sur ...

The Timesaver lapping material used in the lapping process comes in four grits: 40 through 100. It should be n ...