{"id":8812,"date":"2010-03-24T22:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/?p=8812"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T18:40:15","slug":"hot-rod-fixed-its-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-fixed-its-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Rod Fixed- It&#8217;s about time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fhot-rod-fixed-its-about-time%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F03%2Fhot-rod-weekend-8.jpg&amp;description=Hot+Rod+Fixed-+It%E2%80%99s+about+time%21\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[8812]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-fixed-its-about-time\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-fixed-its-about-time\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Hot Rod Fixed- It\u2019s about time!\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-fixed-its-about-time\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Hot Rod Fixed- It\u2019s about time!&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-fixed-its-about-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hot-rod-fixed-its-about-time\/\" data-text=\"Hot Rod Fixed- It\u2019s about time!\" data-desc=\"You don't have to look that closely to see the dust piling up. My friends never let me forget what I already know. That ain't right. Good news is,\u00a0 MyRideisMe.com is growing, but it's at a cost to why I made it: The fun of driving and working on cars. No regrets, but just the same, I'm glad to\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-8.jpg\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-8.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8812]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8813\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"hot rod weekend - new header install\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-8.jpg\" alt=\"hot rod header install how-to ceramic coating\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-8.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-8-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-8-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-8-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to look that closely to see the dust piling up. My friends never let me forget what I already know. That ain&#8217;t right.<\/p>\n<p>Good news is,\u00a0 <a title=\"hot rod and custom car community\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MyRideisMe.com\">MyRideisMe.com<\/a> is growing, but it&#8217;s at a cost to why I made it: The fun of driving and working on cars. No regrets, but just the same, I&#8217;m glad to have Bonnie, my <a title=\"Hot Rod 1927 Ford Roadster\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Garage\/pikesan\" target=\"_blank\">1927 Ford Roadster<\/a> back on the road. So what was wrong?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General laziness\n<ul>\n<li>Get out there son!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stripped out threads for 1 header bolt\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve never done a Heli-coil before<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sounds even more pathetic when I write it down.<\/p>\n<p>Backing up some&#8230; A friend had a gift certificate for ceramic header coating that he couldn&#8217;t use, so knowing I&#8217;m a fellow car dude, he offered it to me. I needed to do something! If you&#8217;ve been following the build\/update progress of my roadster for a while, you saw this post (Click to read it):<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"Custom header coating for hot rods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/home-built-header-finish-atf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Home-built Header finish-ATF!<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>After applying the ATF (and after the smoke cleared&#8230;) the header was an amazingly cool gray-blue. I loved it and you couldn&#8217;t beat the cost! It looked pretty good for a while but after just a touch of rain, it needed another coating. Before long, the cool color turned to mostly a dull black. Perfect for Bonnie, but it never looked &#8220;coated&#8221; again. Enter <a title=\"1st trip to Speedweek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/catching-salt-fever-at-bonneville-speed-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">2009 Speed Week<\/a> and my joyous rides on the salt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Totally Happy:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Speed-Week-2009-Hot-Rod3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8812]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8818 alignnone\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Speed Week 2009  Bonnie on the Salt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Speed-Week-2009-Hot-Rod3.jpg\" alt=\"Speed Week 2009 Hot Rod salt, bonneville speedweek roadster\" width=\"572\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Speed-Week-2009-Hot-Rod3.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Speed-Week-2009-Hot-Rod3-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Speed-Week-2009-Hot-Rod3-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Speed-Week-2009-Hot-Rod3-400x304.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Compared to:<strong> Weathered and Sad<\/strong> &#8211; Salt is bad for untreated metal.\u00a0 Ya think? Compare that to what it <a title=\"cheap header coating\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/home-built-header-finish-atf\/\" target=\"_blank\">looked like when it was new<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-101.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8812]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8825\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Untreated Header after a salty Speed Week in Bonneville\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-101.jpg\" alt=\"Untreated Header after a salty Speed Week in Bonneville\" width=\"575\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-101.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-101-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-101-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-101-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ll be back on the salt this year, I needed to do something with my header, so the timing of the freebie ceramic coating was great. When I removed the header, I found one of the header bolts just over finger loose and it wouldn&#8217;t tighten back up. Crap. I knew about Heli-coils, but I&#8217;d never used one. For some reason I used that as an excuse to put it off for WAY too long.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-10.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8812]\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8827\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Can you see the yellow?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-10.jpg\" alt=\"hot rod header install how-to ceramic coating\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-10.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-10-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-10-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-10-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a>I thought about writing a tech piece on how to do a Heli-coil, but I found a couple easy to follow videos on youtube that I couldn&#8217;t improve on. Simply, you just drill a hole, tap it with a special tap, screw in the Heli-coil and you&#8217;re done! I had to grind off a tiny bit of the coil because it sat above flush with the head. Two seconds with a grinder and that was done. It all worked great and was way easier than I thought.<\/p>\n<p>The new header&#8217;s in the top picture. I asked for flat black and the only black they had was this semi-gloss that has a funky yellow or gold-like tint to it. It&#8217;s almost like a yellow pearl in the black. I hope that burns off. Can you see it?<\/p>\n<p>To cap things off with some tech, if you&#8217;ve ever tried tightening header bolts. It can suck.\u00a0 Grab 2 or 3 wrenches of the size you need:<br \/>\n<a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-7.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8812]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8826\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Tools for a header change\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-7.jpg\" alt=\"Tools header change hot rod ceramic coating\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-7.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-7-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-7-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hot-rod-weekend-7-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These wrenches aren&#8217;t a great example, but most times, the open ends will have a slightly different angle. When you&#8217;re to a point where you can only turn one flat of the bolt at a time, flip the wrench over and try again. If that doesn&#8217;t work, use a different wrench. That couple degrees of angle change on the head may be all you need to nudge the bolt over and grab it with the another wrench. Rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>A pretty simple tip, but if it weren&#8217;t for my dad teaching me, I wouldn&#8217;t think of that. Also, as I discussed with some other members, there&#8217;s alot more novices out there than experts. All are welcome here! If you&#8217;re an expert, let us know! 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