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I have a radical idea!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Sweet Home Alabama!
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Double the value of beater by making it a shop truck!
Cost of mod: around $20* *Must already be skilled and cunning in the art of redneckery! http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=333485
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'67 C-30 Dually Pickup 6.2 Turbo Diesel, NP435 ‘72 C-10 SWB , 350 4bbl, TH350 '69 C-10 SWB , 250 L6, 3 OTT '69 GMC C3500, dump truck, 351 V6, NP435 '84 M1009 CUCV Military Blazer 67 C-30 Turbodiesel build thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=254096 My trucks http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ediafilter=all Member of the 1-Ton Club! Last edited by 67_C-30; 06-27-2011 at 01:20 AM. |
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I have a radical idea!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Sweet Home Alabama!
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Got a hole in your truck in a place it doesn't belong? I show you how to fix it for less than $5!
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'67 C-30 Dually Pickup 6.2 Turbo Diesel, NP435 ‘72 C-10 SWB , 350 4bbl, TH350 '69 C-10 SWB , 250 L6, 3 OTT '69 GMC C3500, dump truck, 351 V6, NP435 '84 M1009 CUCV Military Blazer 67 C-30 Turbodiesel build thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=254096 My trucks http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ediafilter=all Member of the 1-Ton Club! Last edited by 67_C-30; 06-27-2011 at 01:21 AM. |
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I have a radical idea!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Sweet Home Alabama!
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
If somebody spray paints the door of your beater -don't let it get you down - I got you. I got you!
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'67 C-30 Dually Pickup 6.2 Turbo Diesel, NP435 ‘72 C-10 SWB , 350 4bbl, TH350 '69 C-10 SWB , 250 L6, 3 OTT '69 GMC C3500, dump truck, 351 V6, NP435 '84 M1009 CUCV Military Blazer 67 C-30 Turbodiesel build thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=254096 My trucks http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ediafilter=all Member of the 1-Ton Club! Last edited by 67_C-30; 06-27-2011 at 01:25 AM. |
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Grandpa in the rustmobile...
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Spokane WA/Viola TN
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
I loved watcing you build that truck ^
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Location: riverton,ut
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
dunno if it quite qualifies scored this seat upholstery from this interior guy i live by for free. its blue sude and tanish vinyl.
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Grandpa in the rustmobile...
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Spokane WA/Viola TN
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Whats so much more special about the corvette vac can? jw not trying to be smart...
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John Goose-1968 C10 355,9.32-1CR, Vortec Heads ,262 voodoo, 3.73:1 3OTT (HS ride/beater/farm truck) http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=317684 Grams 53-1953 Chevrolet Belair http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=1#post4327784 1969 Chevy C10 Shortbed 4.5/6?" Frame off resto http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=548136 1999 Toyota Tacoma 4x4 |
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It dont hurt to ask.. It will wake up even a 86 stock 305 in a 4x4...make it pull like a 350...Yes it does work..and its cheap. |
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Location: Prescott AZ
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Marianna Arkansas
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
For those of you that kinda know me or of me would'nt be suprised to find out that this a bodyshop cheapee. Take an old coffee maker out to the shop plug it in fill'er up in about five min. you are ready to wetsand with warm water. It is very usefull in the winter months and I tryed it not long ago thinking why have I not done this sooner. Wetsanding is a miserable enough as it is without having to dip your hand in freezing water! cost on this tip $00 if you have an okd one but even if you don't and need to do this 20 bucks at a dollar store will put you in bussiness
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Eliot, Maine
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i bought LED replacement bulbs for the dome lights in my 72 burb c20 ($10 each) but glad to hear LED's for the instrument cluster are available on ebay.
i went with CPP sway bars, but if you have a 2wd, the 1-1/4 sway bar from an 80's 1 ton or camper special chevy/gm 2wd is the perfect upgrade for the 1-1/8 bar available on our trucks (grab the frame brackets if you don't even have a front bar). should be able to get poly bushings pretty cheap too. as for my burb, spent big money on a 4 core radiator and all new mounting hardware, but the 7 blade fan from my dad's 72 burb (w/ air) was free as he'd had it up in the attic for over 20 years and the radiator overflow bottle was a universal never-installed unit found in the attic as well. hung it on the driver side of the rad support with a stainless screw and put a tiny black bungee cord (big assorted bungee package from walmart) around it to keep it stationary. nice not to have to fill up the radiator every time i drive it. |
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Location: Ste. Genevieve, MO
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
KMACD71 I stole your idea THANKS!!!!!
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Simple? What's simple?
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Some of mine:
$25 - pair of 4" 3-way cheapo speakers from Walmart, piece of 3/4" plywood scrap I had laying around = stereo speakers ![]() $35 - 7 blade clutch fan from a '94 Caprice 350 at the boneyard - makes the truck much quieter and moves a TON of air - I've towed another car in traffic on a 90 degree day and the needle never goes above 180*. Had to tweak the blade ends a little with an adjustable wrench to prevent rubbing on the shroud. $15 for a reservoir at the junkyard, a little scrap metal I had laying arounf, and $10 for a new radiator cap - closed cooling system. No more catch can, no more spilled coolant, and no more topping it off once a week. Best idea I ever had.
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
This is a great thread,I am already going to use some of the ideas!
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Location: Redwood City, CA
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Fabbed up a new shift lever from some scrap my buddy had laying around his welding shop. Started with a piece of 3/4 round, heated it up, made some bends, rattle canned it with primer and paint and then installed it, took just a few hours - total cost $12.00 for a six pack and two bags of chips.
AT THE SHOP WHAT WE STARTED WITH HEAT & BEND BEFORE AFTER
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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
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pure awsome!
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
About to be another theft of ideas. I think I'm gonna do this.
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Sunday morning bump!
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its all about the +6 inches
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Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
I am amazed not only that this thread is still going (it died a horrible death on the other boards I posted it on) but also at some of the stuff posted.
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Grandpa in the rustmobile...
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Spokane WA/Viola TN
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
I love it!
Heres one: How to get your whitewalls clean and white again with stuff you (or your wife gf whoever) might have around the house. Commet cleaner (I found it under the sink) on a scrub brush with a little water does wonders on the white letters on my tires and the whitewalls on the car!
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Mooresville NC
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
My new console:
I got tired of not having a place to sit a cold drink down while driving back and forth to physical therapy, so I began thinking about building myself a console. I took a bunch of measurements, made a pile of sketches, and finally settled on a design. I've got about $35 in the whole thing, and about 2-3 hours of labor making it. Materials were: 2 pieces of 2ft square 1/2" pine (if memory serves...) 1 stick of 2"x2"x8' furring strip 3" hole saw Package of small finishing nails Some wood filler putty for the seams Two plastic cup holder inserts like you'd see on boats Free quart of black paint I got from a Glidden promo online It is 12" wide, 14" long, and goes from 11"(at the seat) to 13" tall. Down the road I may pull it out and integrate a 10" subwoofer into the design, but just holding a drink and my phone will do for now. ![]() ![]() |
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
Hmmm... now I know what I am going to do with this too... add a sub right behind the cup holders... been wondering about this and now I will surley use this... thanks frednoah
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Location: San Antonio,Texas
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Re: Post your best budget mods! ($50 or less)
This is great. Some good ideas, i will be useing some of them for my truck. Keep them coming.
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