Ace-Garageguy

You might want to reevaluate your diagnostic procedure. What year and make truck? What other symptoms do you have? What is the compression in each cylinder?

...the Dunning-Kruger effect will show all those annoying know-it-all folks a thing or two...

Draco, a wild turbine-powered one-of-a-kind STOL aircraft built by ace designer / fabricator Mike Patey, was destroyed a few weeks back in a crosswind takeoff incident. She'll be rebuilt, better than ever.

That design was originated by Ted Halibrand and widely referred to as "kidney beans" because of the bent ovoid shape of the slots. They've been around since the mid 1950s, used on pretty much anything imaginable: drag cars, road racing cars, Indy cars, dry-lakes cars, and street rides. Similar styles are still in production, one current one being from American, called "Salt Flats".

Yup...and "fairing" is an interesting word. "Fair" means pretty when it's applied to a woman, but it also means smooth or streamlined when it's applied to a boat hull, an airplane, or the surface of a car. There is a verb "to fair", that literally means "to smooth" or "to streamline". It was originally a nautical term, and a very slick hull would be called "fair". So, "fairing" can be a verb meaning the act of making smooth or streamlining. You don't see the word used much as a verb anymore though. But "fairing", as used here, is a noun that refers to any part that's used to help achieve a wind- or water-resistance cheating shape that helps with streamlining. You can have helmet fairings,or mirror fairings, or wheel fairings, or wing-root fairings, etc. EDIT: To this day, there's still boat-hull "fairing compound", which is much like bondo, but made for making boat hulls slick and smooth.

Just an FYI that's sorta on-topic...one of my go-to primers as well as being a super dooper flat black is SEM self-etching black. IF you get lucky and it doesn't craze the plastic you're working with, it flows out as smooth as a baby's backside, with no orange peel. It sticks like the dickens, and is usually totally impervious to any topcoat. As a final finish (if you're going for the primered look and can't sand and polish a peely finish), because it flows out so smooth, it's perfect. BUT YOU NEED TO TEST IT ON PLASTIC AS WELL AS OVER ANY OTHER MATERIAL BEFORE USING IT ON A MODEL.

See above.

What's a "display cabinet"? All I have experience with is "workbench" and "storage for in-progress projects".

Send in the National Guard...

Very nice. Back in 2007, there was an actual Shelby-connected '32 built : "For the 75th anniversary of the 1932 Ford, Carroll Shelby was asked to oversee the building of a prototype roadster with the “Shelby” touch, in what was to be a limited production run of 100 vehicles. The prototype build was awarded to Hot Rod magazine’s “Detroit Dream Factory,” Special Projects Inc. (SPI) and Ken Yanez, together who, Hot Rod wrote, “are among the few in the world with the skills and resources to turn a pile of raw materials into a complete functional automobile…with the finest show quality detail.” The Great Recession of 2008 caused the production company to fail, but the prototype lives on as the only Carroll Shelby Edition 1932 Ford roadster. With an all steel body, power roll-up windows and a fully disappearing Haartz convertible top, this car is a driver’s dream. In the Shelby/Ford tradition, it is powered by a 4.6 liter, 585 HP DOHC supercharged Ford V-8 engine, with a 5 speed manual transmission. The car is supported by a Jaguar independent rear suspension with inboard disc brakes. This unique automobile displays all the styling cues associated with the famous Shelby Cobra roadsters including the paperclip roll bar, external quick fill gas cap, front cowl vents, front oil cooler and hood scoops, Halibrand knock-off alloy wheels and taillights. The cockpit is also evocative of the Cobra, with the added flourish of an engine- turned aluminum dash signed by Carroll Shelby. Additional provenance includes the pre-build design renderings, photographs of Carroll Shelby and Ken Yanez with the prototype, and the June, 2009, Hot Rod magazine article, “Detroit Dream Factories” in which this automobile is featured." SOURCE: Mecum Auctions

Let's just cut to the end: drawings on cave walls made with berry juice and coals from last night's fire...

Replacing that dinosaur with these. That should eliminate 99.5% of anyone being able to do anything (laughs hysterically).

Among those with functioning brains, I believe it's already a done deal...

Not if we go with this...

Oopsie doopsie...

Faw down go boom...

But he couldn't solve the crime in time because his dog ate the keys to the Peugeot...

Yes sir...I couldn't have said that any better myself. It takes me real self-discipline to stay on track once they're past a certain point.

Thank you again, sir. Really.

Me too. Thanks for your interest. Thanks for your interest and comments too. Yes, I believe you're correct about the source of the rolled pan...

Thanks for your interest and comments. Thanks Tom. I'm tryin'.

Thanks for your interest. I was trying to post more of a response, but got 404'd.