Thanks Martin.
Easter weekend......
Plan was to go to Wheels Day and enjoy the rest of the weekend away from the truck with Nicola.
Clocks went Forward today, so we are now formally in summer time.
Did a bunch of house stuff this morning and by 2pm there was nothing left to do.
So I sneaked down to the garage to clean up the filler and breather caps for the valve covers. Paint was in mind as I am not prepared to pay the monies that those sexy finned ally pieces cost out there.
My very good friend Bret in Austin, Texas gets the blame squarely for this latest progression........
His engine.
So looking at my valve covers, it needed to be addressed.
Cleaned up.
Then of course I started to clean up the cast ally covers........ What a PITA of a job !!!
I usually chat to my buddy in St Louis, Missourri through the day checking out his work and of course showing him my pitiful progress.
He can paint and wrap a NASCAR race truck in 24hrs so his progress is always fast.
When I moaned about polishing the ally covers, he shot me a couple of pics of some new, unused covers from one of his Sprint cars with a silly Buy it Now and collect later and get a beer price. Price was perfect, but I decided in the end to stay traditional until I go Big Block with silly internals.
Three hours later, hand polished (I did try use my buffing wheels but they failed too)
Nicola also made us an awesome lamb roast for Easter, in the mean time I masked up the covers after they had been polished silly, then washed with Amonia based detergent and then dry cloth buffed again.
The new air filter cover masked as well.
Paint tomorrow.
So off to get some etch primer and fresh Chevy engine block red in the morning.
Happy Easter all.