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02-16-2013, 10:14 AM
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valve cover dent repair
A couple months ago a buddy of mine came over with a bumper filler panel off a 61 Starliner he's putting together as a 70th b-day present for his dad. He was using my media blast cabinet to clean off the paint and was planning on spraying some Krylon and reinstalling. Well, I had him strip the paint, I smoothed out some dings with the hammer and dolly, and here's how I finished it, using some of my Imron rather than his Krylon...
Well I stopped by to check it out after he installed it, and noticed the valve covers looked like someone had changed out the intake and dropped it a few times on the valve covers. So he dropped them off for some dent repair this evening...     All of these tools were used this evening at one point or another...   Dents were worked with various implements of destruction, filed to find the high spots, and low spots bumped up, then repeat.   As they will be painted, we'll leave off with the following.... Sandblasting and some H/K epoxy primer will take care of any remaining defects...      
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02-16-2013, 10:17 AM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
Here they are all hot tanked, sandblasted, and ready to go....
  Here's the official 2 x 8 valve cover paint fixtures...   A couple coats of H/K epoxy and a guide coat and couple days of cure time before wetsanding....   
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02-16-2013, 10:35 AM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
And here's where we are as of last night. There were a couple sand-throughs on the valve covers, so some epoxy was mixed and reduced 10% to use as a sealer....
  Here's the paint code for the early 60's Hi-po 390... Used acrylic enamel.  Finished up, looks quite a bit smoother than before....     No filler used, just wet sanding the epoxy primer.
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02-18-2013, 08:06 AM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
Absolutely beautiful work... metal manipulation is an art.
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02-21-2013, 10:54 PM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
Reminds me of my SBC cover. Except yours looks awesome!
And mine is well.....not. 
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02-21-2013, 11:17 PM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
That doesn't look like it would take too much to straighten it out..
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03-21-2013, 09:34 AM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
As a follow up to the valve cover repairs, the owner has the car just about ready, just needs some tune up work...
   
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03-21-2013, 09:44 AM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
Very nice job!!
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03-21-2013, 11:35 AM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
Beautiful work and a very nice looking car. I bet that thing moves well!
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03-21-2013, 03:15 PM
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Re: valve cover dent repair
Looks great. I have a set of the script chevrolet valve covers shown earlier in this thread that have some dents that I will be smoothing out.
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