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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Here's one for the stepside guys....Radiusing The Rear Bed Rails.
I saw this idea and decided to give it a try. I used long radius 1-1/2" pipe elbows, $20 each. Last edited by lakeroadster; 05-27-2011 at 10:26 AM. |
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Replacing the side markers that look like goldfish eyes for some van side markers total price $0.00 got them for free and two minutes of my time......
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
couple picts of markers
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Did my entire engine bay for about $30.00.Just cleaning and paint.Even painted the new inner fenders(outside of the budget deal) with the same paint.
Did my steering wheel with a $5.00 syringe of Epoxy and some brake cleaner and paint.The leather steering wheel wrap brought it in at about $30.00 Did the interior for about $30.00 in supplies.I did have to get a bit spendier on the dash pad.Seats set me back another $50.00 and the bracket steel was liberated from other junk. Drip rail seam sealer. Pulled 68 door panels and padded them with thin packing foam and made liners of rubberized cloth(Liberated from the workplace). I think I paid $17xx for the sway bar at Pull-a-Part,with brackets and the rubbers are useable.I haven't installed yet but think paint and bolts and I can do it for about $25.Another $8.00 or so for new rubber if I decide to. I's pooor so I does cheap stuff when I can but each of these was an improvement over what it was.
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Just took off the old carb and put on a brand new Edelbrock 550 4b with a nice chrome air cleaner that was on my buddy's caddy engine lol Also put on a Flowmaster 40 with dual outs. Total cost was $20 for the extra fuel line, hose clamps and fuel filter and a few hours of time. All major parts were FREE and the truck has come alive again and sounds great. Just going to go buy a new edelbrock manifold for it though and take off the stocker and put the stock manifold and 4brl carb onto my burb to get it going.
Should probably go clean the engine bay while it's not raining out though so everything looks new lol
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
fill up the gas tank.. Oh under $50... Start with 1/4 tank
![]() fresh paint on a set of ralleys really dresses up a truck, or painted bumper, trim ect. paint everything behind the grill black, makes the grill pop. Nothing shiny distracting you from the lines of the truck. Black is great for hiding stuff.
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
This one is an unfinished mod & may stay that way, tried to make a taillamp that had an orange blinker by cutting into two spare housings & welding them together (a friend did that for free) then buying two clear lenses $20 cutting & gluing them together, and all I needed was to mod the wiring a little after that...but then, I had a DOH! moment, there was no reflector anymore
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
I did a homemade radio delete plate out a piece of an old road sign I picked up by the side of the road for free. I cut it to size with a hack saw and a piece of angle as a guide.
I did the rest of the edge finishing with a saw and sandpaper. I did some pseudo engine turning with a 1/4" power drill and some little wads of steel wool. I have a power plug for a GPS and a passenger's side light and switch on it. Total cost about $5.00! Next I'm going to do the inside hood release. |
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
1 full ring off the front coils(free 2 " drop)
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
i like powder-coat I've had several items coated for less than 50.00 brackets' hinges ' pulleys etc. and its very durable...
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
underhood light from any dodge caravan in a junkyard, find one from a Jeep and you can have an extendable magnetic light. Pretty darn useful.
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
and don't forget my best thread ever, the junkyard shopping list (though it kind of died...):
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=248607
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Speaking of radio delete... PO had cut my dash so I made a radio delete plate out of a piece of .063 stainless. Masked of a little chevy symbol, painted the plate and then peeled the masking off leaving a shiny bowtie. Several pieces of 3M double back sticky tape and it's still firmly on after 3 years of daily driving.
![]() While I had the double back sticky tape out, I put up some home depot heat reflective headliner to cover up the ugly left behinds of the stock headliner till I can get to it later. Trimmed it out with aluminum tape so the edges look pretty nice. It sure makes a difference in the winter, I can actually feel the heat bouncing off and keeping my head and shoulders warmer. ![]() |
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
here's a couple of the ones I've posted that I like...
Cleaning rust off the body... LINK My clear roof mounted marker/ID lights... LINK The already requested frenched marker lights... LINK To stay within the guidlines I posted, you could use a file, or a dremmel tool instead of the air cutoff that I used. (texanidiot25's pic is better than mine) ![]() Plywood bed floor LINK This may come in over 50 bucks now, but with a sn=maller bed, or cheaper plywood, it can come in under 50 bones. No thread, but junkyard van tilds are always a favorite mod of mine. I have never paid more than 35 bucks for one (bought 10 or so over the years). Washing and a full detail inside and out is always time well spent IMO, and it's hard to spend 50 bucks in soap and wax, use an old T shirt for an application rag if you get to the $50 limit. I could probably go on and on |
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
FREE sway bar is my best mod to date. Of course I had to buy the bushings for $17.00 and nuts and bolts for about $5.00. I also upgraded to a CS alternator using a FREE alternator and a $2.00 resistor from Radio Shack. The headlight relays are the next mod I'm going to tackle.
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
I built this console for under 50 bucks. Im just an average guy and gave this a shot. Never did anything like this before. Already had the gagues and shifter. The MDF and fabric was cheap. The fake diamond plate I picked up at Home Depot. Hope you enjoy.
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
i got on this site, got a lot of good ideas, cost, free. people on this site, priceless!!!
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
replaced the straps with cables less then $20 at the parts store and 2 bolts from a dodge dakota in the salvage yard.
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