Yeah. If I can I would like to keep sheet metal there. Maybe I will take the hood off and have it “worked”. Maybe flip it over onto a sand bag and shape it out where necessary then roller (I have a coworker with an english wheel), then filler, sand, prime, then paint! Voila!
On my commute home today I tried to keep up with a Hellcat Challenger. Wish I had my camera hooked up, even though traffic was moderately heavy and there was no real room to play I got to open it up a little bit.
I doubt it. When I got on it he or she (tinted windows) got stuck in traffic. The Challenger opened it up after I slowed to wait. I never saw it coming and it blew past me at well over a buck. I was probably at 70 or 75. There were only a couple of openings to open it up. When the challenger blew past there was a stretch it was passing slower traffic and I wasn’t comfortable chasing because any one of those cars could change lanes and ruin my day. I’m 47 years old and I have a lot of driving experience. A lot. I can weave with most, but if your car is moving too much faster than the traffic you are passing it becomes dangerous.
Well. The Daddywagon is blowing blue smoke again. Maybe I will do valve seals and retorque the heads this weekend.
That's a bummer. I must say, it looks pretty good with those steel wheels, dog dish caps and beauty rings.
I'd run fresh oil in it for 1500 mile changes at least for the next few changes, see if the additives clean the rings and restores pliability in the stem seals.