Auto Repair

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The Quickest Way to Install Door Skins When restoring cars and doing auto body work you will likely have to replace a door skin on a vehicle. It tends to be the best way to repair heavily damaged doors as most doors have an inner structure that makes welding in small patches difficult. We’re always […]

Eastwood Soda Blasting Small Job Kit is Great for the Hobbyist Media blasting is a godsend when restoring vehicles and cleaning parts. It really can be great for saving money and time by not having to outsource the work to someone else and you can get the satisfaction of doing it yourself. But the only […]

How to Clean Metal For Powder Coating Powder Coating is often overlooked when it comes to cleaning or preparing the surface before coating. Much like automotive paint you need to clean the parts very well before coating or you may have adhesion issues, finish defects, or premature failure of the coating. We decided to give […]

Which Welder Is Best For Stainless Steel? Stainless steel is one of the best alloys for fabrication but it isn’t as easy to bend, form, or weld as mild steel. We often get asked by customers how they can weld a stainless part together. We decided to help those questions below. MIG Welding Stainless Steel […]

Here at Eastwood we’ve always worked to bring industrial and professional quality tools at a DIY price and because of that we get questions from beginners or hobbyists looking to step up their welding and fabrication skills and tools. While it may be a simple answer for someone working in the fabrication trade or a […]

When you’re building a custom car or restoring a classic you may have to make or replaced entire panels that you will need to recreate original fastener holes in. Using a drill can tend to be slow and labor intensive if you have a lot of holes to put in a panel. For instance a […]

Rotted out exhausts is a problem we fight on our classics as much as our daily drivers. With modern cars it can be as easy as clicking a few buttons on a website to order new exhaust parts but for a classic car it may require an expensive custom made or aftermarket performance exhaust. If […]

A Finely Tuned Machine- Eastwood Employees Make Us Tick We want to share the great Eastwood staff with you, our customers! We have asked them to fill out the first five questions, and then pick 5 random questions from a “Wildcard” section of questions. We allowed them to answer these however they’d like. You’d be […]

Custom Paint with the mystery taken out! In this day and age standing out in the crowd with your custom car is getting harder and harder. No matter how many colors you have someone always wants something different and we’ve come to the conclusion we’ll never have enough paint colors to make everyone happy. But […]