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boop coupe (aka boop coupe) [ View ] [ frank8142@verizon.net ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ] clarksville, Maryland  Frank Jones

When painting a four-piece hood, do you take the side piece rods out and paint and then re-install or do you have to paint the sides with the rod installed?

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Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  05/29/2008 10:33 AM i do them in pieces. tap that pin out a little ways and hook your makita to it. they come out and go in much easier that way. dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by boop coupe  -  05/29/2008 10:59 AM Thanks for th advise. I am finding out first hand that doing what you do is an art. Frank Jones [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] clarksville, Maryland   Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  05/29/2008 11:10 AM aint as easy as some let on huh ? dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by 29robert  -  05/29/2008 12:28 PM I know that takin stuff apart is a lot of work and seems like you're goin in the wrong direction, but you'll be much happier with the results when you're done. I spent a bunch of years buildin my car and it was soooo tempting to just drive it away without final paint. It nearly killed me to blow it all apart for painting , plating, and polishing, but now I'm seein the results and I thrilled. 29robert [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] La Verne, California Charter Member since November 2004   Posted by cr55  -  05/29/2008 01:23 PM Amen to that 29, it's hard putting them together the first time. It's even harder to talk yourself into taking it back apart so you can paint and put it back together again! But it certainly is worth the extra effort....CR I thought that I knew it all , but.. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dover, Delaware   Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  05/29/2008 02:05 PM i only build'em once. screw putting them together twice. dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by flagator79  -  05/30/2008 06:19 PM Frank, take them apart like others have said - u will be much more pleased that way. i didn't know til the other day that these 4 piece hoods were referred to as BUTTERFLY HOODS. you guys probably already knew. makes sense to me. notice no capitalization in this note -- left hand all wrapped up tight - had a fluid build-up in it and the therapists are squeezing it a bit - can't do much with it right now --small price to pay. skeet If the world was fair, the worm would eat the bird half the time [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] West Monroe, Louisianna Charter Member since December 2005   Posted by boop coupe  -  05/30/2008 09:33 AM Installing a newly painted hood has to be the hardest part of puttung back together a streetrod. It takes three good people. The thing is like a crab. Frank Jones [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] clarksville, Maryland   Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  05/30/2008 09:39 AM try it by yourself dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by da34guy  -  05/30/2008 10:27 AM Like bein a 1 armed paperahanger,Huh Shine? Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  05/31/2008 08:50 AM setting dog houses off and on it is insane by yourself but i have no choice . i get pretty inventive sometimes. dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by jimmothershead  -  05/30/2008 09:52 PM You did prefit on car? Jim [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Huntingtown, Maryland   Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  05/31/2008 07:51 AM if it came off it will go back on. unless it is some of the after market junk we have now. if it has a prefit before paint sticker on it i send the junk back. dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by boop coupe  -  06/02/2008 09:13 AM I did prefit the hood. No concerns there. Frank Jones [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] clarksville, Maryland

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