E79 Fixing Oil Canning and Leveling the Roof! 1956 Chevy Bel Air Restoration

[@donchoate13]

No one could ever accuse u of being lazy your determination is phenomenal. Keep up the good work.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

I appreciate that!

[@bradreeves7534]

Have you ever watched Sylvesterscustoms KZbin channel. Good reference for things you are working on. Used to use water bake in the 70s pre mig. Good luck to you.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

I've seen a video or two of his. Good stuff!

[@richardchretien7412]

I like your can do anything thinking. That’s when things get done. Chevy looks great.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

Thanks! I'm just trying to keep making positive progress!

[@kidjeff4304]

glad you got over to Japhands' channel!

[@RestoringChristine1956]

That dude is insanely good!

[@kidjeff4304]

@@RestoringChristine1956 he offers a metal shaping class a couple times a year--I'm considering taking it.

[@DavidMueller-kp7sy]

I love your videos, you do great work. Watching reminds me of everything I did wrong with the cars in my past.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

I've definitely learned from mistakes that I made on past builds, back in the days before KZbin channels were available to show you a thing or two. Glad to have you along for the ride!

[@greggonzalez7396]

The roof came out great. I like the fact that you admit you've never attempted this type of repair before. It seems pretty risky but your confidence kicked in and made it happen. Great video and looking forward to the next phase of work to be completed on Christine.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

I wish I video'd the other two. I didn't ding it with the hammer first. I let the torch rise a blister and then tapped it down without stretching it. It seemed to work quicker and better.

[@sheet-son]

Cool trick 👍

[@RestoringChristine1956]

Thanks!

[@mazeurbanski]

It's a lot of tedious work when restoring the cold vintage car. It takes a lot of time and patience but the results in the end will be well worth it . Keep up the good work 👏

[@RestoringChristine1956]

Thanks! It's a process that will pay off in spades in the end!

[@mikemccartney4300]

I think your sandblaster caused those lows in the roof and the trunk lid. The supports are the high areas on both panels. Great job working them out.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

That's been most everyone's theory. Could have very well been.

[@MagaRickn]

Wow! You are way brave! I sure hope I don't have those problems with my roof! :)

[@RestoringChristine1956]

It was surprising to me, but it's all in the rearview mirror now!

[@barroosa]

Hey Bill, really nice work!!! I about lost my stomach when I saw how much that metal moved when you struck it with the hammer. I wonder if the filler alone would have solved the problem of the oil canning without the metal work. I also wonder if you could add some additional bracing on the underside to better support the long runs of unsupported metal. Thank you again for your efforts.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

Filler will often tighten it up. But when I pushed it down, it was about 3/8 of an inch - too much for me to want to load up with filler. The passenger side was MUCH easier. I wish I had filmed that.

[@VintageCarHistory]

The Tin Man would have gotten nowhere without oil canning.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

Dad Joke Alert! Yuk, yuk, yuk!

[@nd7368]

I tried this once on a car I was doing a full paint job on. Ended up moving my "oil canning" center to different areas all over the roof.. ended up with about 20 different burn&beat marks, absolutely mangled my roof, and ended up having to cut it out and replace it. I will never attempt this method again. My next best idea was to fiberglass the entire underside of the roof prior to install.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

The two spots I fixed off camera, i did NOT punch them. I just heated a blister and then drove it down when it was hot. That seemed to work much better and was a lot less risky. If you saw the episode where I cut out the top driver's quarter, that was an oil canning situation gone bad.

[@Supanova70]

Great job. How do you know it`s staight without guide coat? Waiting till High build? also was that dolphin glaze at the end? Need to do the same thing on my nova. I hav ethe hog not the airfile which i am buying today lol

[@DavidMueller-kp7sy]

Suggestion. I saw the photos of Christine before you started the restoration. If you go with the same two tone paint scheme, the A and B pillars should be the same color as the roof and deck. I did this myself about 30 years ago on a '55 and I wish I did it better, like you are.

[@RestoringChristine1956]

Great observation! Most of the people who have noticed at cruise nights have commented that they like the body color on the B-pillar. The interior door trim is red. It's one of the identifying "beauty marks" that I'm going to keep.

[@angelopetraglia8326]

KZbin is not suggesting your new videos for subscribers when they are posted. It’s the third week in a row

[@RestoringChristine1956]

That's interesting. I can see the stats and my views trend exactly in line with how much KZbin exposes them in feeds. I think some of my best videos sit without views. Glad you appreciate them.

[@oacumulador]

First 🥇

[@djmjr77]

I thought Christine was supposed to fix herself? 😅😋

[@RestoringChristine1956]

LOL! If only movie magic was real!