We’re hoping that as you are keeping your social distance these days you have gotten the chance to wrench on your stuff and maybe spend more time in your shop on your projects than you had planned. It’s likely the one thing that is keeping you sane. We know that doing stuff we did not “have time” to do before is one way we’re preventing the urge to go completely native these days.
The crew at QA1 understands that you’re likely wrenching a little more these days and because of that they have made this great video sharing some of their favorite shop tips. This is not the stuff you find in a manual. This is the type of stuff you learn from the smart old dude at your shop or from the guys who have been thrashing on stuff for years and years. There are no old guys in this video but all of these tips likely at some point generated from an elder statesman wrencher.
There are a few tips in here we have heard of but the majority of the ideas shared in this are pretty fresh to us and stuff that we’ll be remembering to use in the coming weeks before we get to go racing again. Heck, you may be able to use some of these tips today!
To remove the rest of a broken axle slide a piece of garden hose up the axle housing then tack weld enough welding rods together to reach the broken piece. Turn the welder on and tack weld the end of the rod to the broken piece and use the rod to pull the broken piece out
cut the plug end , the last 6″ or so , off an old plug wire – use it to remove
and install plugs that are deep / hard to reach .. or longer is you need
clear acrylic spray ( Krylon is great ) will coat and rust proof damn near anything.. is pliable and moves w/heat and cold – cast iron stuff especially