Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
After more than 30 years of operation Fatman Fabrications is no longer around.
Fatman’s provided tons of cool suspension modification parts for all types of cars.
From the website:
Unfortunately, Fatman Fabrications has ceased operations.
We have provided everyone’s information to our lawyer. They will be sending out claim forms for a refund on all orders and deposits.
We apologize for any inconvenience this is causing.
Tim T
President of Fatman Fabrications
In 2020 Brent Vandervoort sold Fatman fabrication to Tim and Tullo who gave it a go for four years but were forced to shutter the business at the end of 2024.
According to some digging around on Linked In, Fatman had 10 employees listed there, though some places show 14.
No, I don’t know why. Internet wags will say all sorts of things and since I don’t know the owner, I can’t just ring him up and ask. And honestly, I don’t want to ask questions of a man going through the throws of closing a business he believed in enough to by from Brent.
I hope that all current orders will be refunded and that customer issues will be satisfied by the lawyers. More than that I hope that Tim will land on his feet. As a small business owner myself, I can feel the crush of what losing something as important as this is.
We are losing small businesses day by day. Some to corporate buyouts, some to the press of trying to get the parts they need in a timely fashion. Some just due to bad management. In all cases the world that I know grows a tiny bit smaller with each change of guard or loss of interest.
Episode 7 The Rumble
Jford@autorestomod.com
Insta: @autorestomod
patreon.com/gasolinemedia
Jford@autorestomod.com
Insta: @autorestomod
patreon.com/gasolinemedia
After more than 30 years of operation Fatman Fabrications is no longer around.
Fatman’s provided tons of cool suspension modification parts for all types of cars.
From the website:
Unfortunately, Fatman Fabrications has ceased operations.
We have provided everyone’s information to our lawyer. They will be sending out claim forms for a refund on all orders and deposits.
We apologize for any inconvenience this is causing.
Tim T
President of Fatman Fabrications
In 2020 Brent Vandervoort sold Fatman fabrication to Tim and Tullo who gave it a go for four years but were forced to shutter the business at the end of 2024.
According to some digging around on Linked In, Fatman had 10 employees listed there, though some places show 14.
No, I don’t know why. Internet wags will say all sorts of things and since I don’t know the owner, I can’t just ring him up and ask. And honestly, I don’t want to ask questions of a man going through the throws of closing a business he believed in enough to by from Brent.
I hope that all current orders will be refunded and that customer issues will be satisfied by the lawyers. More than that I hope that Tim will land on his feet. As a small business owner myself, I can feel the crush of what losing something as important as this is.
We are losing small businesses day by day. Some to corporate buyouts, some to the press of trying to get the parts they need in a timely fashion. Some just due to bad management. In all cases the world that I know grows a tiny bit smaller with each change of guard or loss of interest.
Episode 7 The Rumble
Jford@autorestomod.com
Insta: @autorestomod
patreon.com/gasolinemedia
Jford@autorestomod.com
Insta: @autorestomod
patreon.com/gasolinemedia

![Bad Gauge? Bad Sender? Bad Ground? How To Tell The Difference
Running out of gas in a classic car is embarrassing. Running out of gas because your fuel gauge quit working is fixable — and on any Ford from about 1960 through 1973, that gauge is a perennial troublemaker.
In this one, Jeff walks through the full diagnostic chain on the 72 Mach 1 (Lazarus) without ever pulling the instrument cluster out of the dash. First, the embarrassing one: check that the sender is actually plugged in. Then the real testing begins.
What we cover:
• Why a test light beats a multimeter for checking gauge feed (youre looking for that pulse at roughly 5 to 5.5 volts, and a meter wont show it)
• Where to ground your test light when youre flat on hot asphalt
• Jumping the two posts to confirm the gauge itself has good mechanical function — it should sweep past empty and peg past full
• Identifying the ground post on the sender (furthest from the front of the car), and how 71 strap-in tanks differ from bolt-in tanks
• Running an ohms test on the sender: roughly 72–75 ohms empty, around 10 ohms full on a Ford
• What an OL reading means versus a steady 73 ohms — one says the rheostat is toast, the other points at a fuel-logged float
Spoiler: this sender is dead. The good news is National Parts Depot now produces their own sending unit, so the fix is a phone call and four gallons of gas siphoned out of the tank.
Parts for this build come from National Parts Depot: https://www.npdlink.com
T-shirts help pay Joseph, our teenage production assistant whos putting every dollar into his XJ Jeep. Grab one and youre funding a kids first build.
Patreon at the $10 level gets you monthly Zoom meetings with Jeff plus Trivia Night, where the prize is a one-off t-shirt with YOUR car on it.
Its not a problem, its a project.
—
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Autorestomod Episode: 750
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![1967 Mustang & Cougar Steering Box Removal — Do It the RIGHT Way
The 1967 Mustang is back on the lift, and what started as a quick alignment turned into a complete power steering teardown. In this episode, Jeff Ford walks you through removing the steering box and the entire slave-cylinder (control valve) power steering system from a 1967 Mustang — the same setup youll find on the 1967 Mercury Cougar.
Before we could rebuild anything, we had to deal with some world-class Fabricobble: a 19mm socket booger-welded to both ends of the steering shaft. Jeff shows you how to save the factory 1-inch double-D steering column, cut the butchered shaft out without wrecking it, and get the control valve, power ram, Pitman arm, and steering box out of the car cleanly.
In this video youll learn:
• The two different 1967 Mustang steering shaft setups (long solid shaft vs. two-piece with rag joint) and why it changes how you pull the box
• Why Fords slave-cylinder / control valve power steering feels skatey — and the caster trick that fixes it
• How to crack loose finicky fittings with a line wrench without goring them
• Which Pitman arm and tie rod pullers actually fit these systems (hint: 3/4 jaw)
• The one ball stud that, if it fails, takes your steering with it
☕ Want to support the show? Grab a t-shirt or jump on Patreon at the $10/month level for monthly Zoom hangouts and Trivia Night, where we give away custom shirts featuring YOUR car. Every shirt and pledge goes straight to Joseph and the editor who make these videos happen — not to Jeff.
T-shirts help pay Joseph, our teenage production assistant whos putting every dollar into his XJ Jeep. Grab one and youre funding a kids first build.
Patreon at the $10 level gets you monthly Zoom meetings with Jeff plus Trivia Night, where the prize is a one-off t-shirt with YOUR car on it.
Its not a problem, its a project.
—
▶ Autorestomod is proudly sponsored by National Parts Depot — [https://www.npdlink.com]
SUPPORT THE SHOW
▶ Patreon — $10/month gets you monthly Zoom meetings with me: [https://www.patreon.com/c/gasolinemedia]
▶ Merch — Needs More Classic Cars shirts, hats & mugs at Fourth Wall: [https://autorestomod-shop.fourthwall.com/]
Autorestomod Episode: 756
https://autorestomod-shop.fourthwall.com/
Sponsors:
https://www.nationalpartsdepot.com
https://www.eatondetroitspring.com
Contact: Jford@autorestomod.com
Insta: @autorestomod
www.patreon.com/gasolinemedia.
#ClassicCars #Mustang #FordMustang #AutoRestoMod #NPD 1967 Mustang & Cougar Steering Box Removal — Do It the RIGHT Way](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZjjfsqPBLBA/mqdefault.jpg)






