October 26th 2026 Back to the Eelco Weiand spark plug covers. They do press against the valve cover flanges so I placed "stand off" hex nuts on the studs with Threadlocker Red. After that set up, installed the plug covers with Threadlocker Blue on the acorn nuts. They are tight but not pressing on the valve covers now.
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Broke down the '57 nailhead generator bracket into its two component pieces and cleaned the flash rust off with Scotchbrite buff in the Dremal motor tool, PRE Paint prepped them and gave them a rattlecan coat of Eastwood's Self-Etching Primer Gray. After the required two hours, gave the bracket pieces a wet sloppy coat of Eastwood's Under Hood Black. The spraybomb was old and a heavy coat was the only way. OOPs, missed a few spots and it got a touch-up coat afterall. Put everything back together after the paint dried. Damnation! Found a few more spots the paint missed. Sprayed a puddle of Under Hood Black in the rattlecan lid and finished touching up the missed spots with a Q-Tip.
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Applied '54 Buick Fireball V-Eight decals to the valve cover's embossed areas. These were vinyl peel-and-stick so I didn't have to mess with a soapy water transfer process. Beer of the day is Lucky Bucket Brewing Company's Festbier Oktoberfest Lager. Background music was The Doo Wop Box Set.
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