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The Shop Truck #1 — Air Conditioning Repair

Welcome to the first installment of “The Shop Truck.” In this ongoing series that signals the launch of Blast Cars, we are repairing and restoring a 1987 Dodge W150 Power Ram pickup truck that we found...

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The Shop Truck #2 — Buying It

Let me tell you something you already know: Buying a car sucks. Shopping sucks. Dealing with salespeople really sucks. (The fake “supervisor” that the guy talks to, I mean, seriously?) Knowing that...

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The Shop Truck #3 — Status Report

Kevin had The Shop Truck for almost 90 days, and in that time he replaced a lot of parts and did way more work than he could ever have anticipated on a truck that is, as we both noted, shockingly...

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The Shop Truck #4 — You hear that ticking? We think that’s a bad lifter

It’s a cheap piece but could be costly to install You hear that? Use your noggin to filter out the pulleys and the fan noise and you’ll hear a rhythmic ticking. It’s a dreaded sound that is often...

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The Shop Truck #5 — Cleaning Out the Doors

This is Zep 505 cleaner. I love it. Car restoration is glamorous right? A guy gets his hands dirty, uses a ratchet and some wrenches, maybe gets cut a few times. Women in the area get turned on. (Or a...

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The Shop Truck Update: Marvel Mystery Oil didn’t work for lifter tick

Obviously, not every product works exactly the same way for exactly the same problem. But, sadly, we have to report that Marvel Mystery Oil did not do the trick for our Chrysler LA 318 engine’s lifter...

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The Shop Truck #6 — What’s that coming out from underneath..ohhhh crap…

Son of a bitch. Yeah…it overheated As Corey introduced earlier this week, Blast Cars visited the Little Foreign Car Garage in Waltham to catch up with my old friend Ken “Skipper” Hull, who has been in...

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The Shop Truck #7 — How to wash your engine bay

Corey expertly covers the air cleaner/carburetor and the distributor cap. Just go for it, right? Wrong. After our trip to Little Foreign Car Garage to see Skipper Hull went, well, swimmingly, we were...

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The Shop Truck #8 — Seafoam!

Every gearhead seems to love this. Maybe it’s just the smoke, but something about Seafoaming an engine hearkens us back to the very roots of our car-loving, car fixing, car breaking beginnings. Seafoam...

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The Shop Truck #9 — Let’s “do” the exhaust

This portion of The Shop Truck restoration was made possible by Summit Racing Equipment. For over 40 years, Summit Racing Equipment has set and reset the standard for fast shipping, customer service,...

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The Shop Truck: Why would I want exhaust headers?

Ever since we ran our exhaust replacement story in the fall, we’ve been asked (and have started debating) why exhaust headers are such a good thing, given the price, installation difficulties, and...

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