This is the first drive in it...........Still dirty, Exterior update not done.....Just couldnt wait.

 

NOW.............THE FINISHED PIC's............Well........I'm never finished. But Finished for a little while.................................









Now some Glamor shots..........

 

 

PARTS LIST:


Exterior:

Headlights with H4 conversion and city light...............eBay - $25
Corner Lights Clear - Painted chrome to Black.............ebay - $10
Euro Bumper Turn Signal Lights.................................eBay - $17
Taillight Lenses Red/Clear........................................eBay - $20
New aftermarket OEM Style Mirror.............................eBay - $14
New Roll Exterior trim, 24ft.......................Space Age PAint - $32
Painted Front Bumper, Lip, and Grill.....................Two Cans - $10
Chrome Exhaust Tip. From Integra LS..................In garage - FREE
Goodyear Euro Style Wiper Blades..........................Costco - $14
Rugged Liner bed liner......................................Junk Yard - $35

Total: $177

 

PARTS LIST:

Interior:

Glove Box............................................... Junk Yard - $15
Used Bench Seat..Clean and not torn...........Craigslist - $40
Rockford Fosgate 4" Speakers....................Junk Yard - $6
Hidden Antenna.......................................Auto zone - $20

Total: $81

 

PARTS LIST:

Wheels, and Tires:

Used Pacer Black 15x7 wheels..............................Craigslist - $80
Goodyear Wrangler Radials 235-75-15"........Discount Tire Co. - $282
Muteki Black Spline Lugs..........................Had in my garage - Free (but would be $40)
Bulldog Black wheel lock set.....................Had in my garage - Free (but would be $25)

Total $362 (for me)

Suspension.....Front to Back:

SDORI 1.5" Ball Joint spacers w/ Control arm Brace....www.SDORI.com - $160
Sway-a-Way Torsion Bars..................................www.eshocks.com - $210
Gabriel Replacement Shocks Front and Rear..........................Autozone - $16 Each
Pro Comp Add a Leaf.............................................. .............Summit - $44
Energy Suspension sway bar endlinks...................................Autozon e - $15
Energy Suspension Front Shock Bushings........................4 Wheel Parts - $5
Control arm Bushings.......................................... ...............Rockauto - $8

Total $506

 

PARTS LIST:

Engine:

K&N Drop in Filter............................................ .....................Autozone - $40
Spectre Intake Tubing............................................ .........In my garage - Free (around $25)
Used Battery........................................... ............................Autozone - $30
Radiator.......................................... ....................................Autozone - $70
Spark Plugs, Wires, Dist cap & rotor.........................................Auto zone - $30
Used Fuel Tank.............................................. ......................Junk Yard - $50
Misc clamps to fab brackets.......................................... ..........Checkers - $9

Misc. Hoses for coolant, Emissions, etc. Also Used a bunch of Goodyear hose benders that I Already had in Garage So again Free!

Total $229

 

TOTALS:

Bought Truck..........$1348
Register 2yrs..........$21
Parts.....................$1355

Total $2724

Truck has 175k on it with a full tune up and did valve adjustment etc. etc.........Straight Frame....No accidents and clean carfax. And no other problems.

I think I made out pretty good. Wouldn't you?

 

Lights look sweet,gotta convert mine-nice price too.Clean truck-minus dent in rear

 

New Pics...........Removed lower valance and installed fog lights.....Got them for $10.50!!

 

What kind of mpg are you seeing with tires that large? My 2wd is mainly a daily driver because it gets good gas mileage, but I can't stand the stock wheels.

Great build!

 

Like 15 to 21 on highway.

 

Looking great, your doing alot of work making it better, One thing I noticed is the wiper arms are crappy, take them off and repaint them, will look like new, mine in my 93 when I got it last May were nasty and rusty and missing the nut covers and got new nut covers from pick-n-pull and had the crappy dual wiper blades on it, I stripped/sanded them down to the bare metal and in an afternoon and a can of gloss black spay paint and wa la brand new looking wiper arms :} If you already did that since your last posted pic of your truck just ignore me :}LOL
Check out my build too if you want :}

 

What up with the inside, looks great on the outside

 

Cool little truck man! Love how clean it is! Keep the updates coming!

 

How did you find those so cheap, used?

 

You can find aftermarket ones on ebay for cheap.

example
http://www.ebay.com/itm/USA-FREE-SHI...e4f120&vxp=mtr

 

That's awesome, I need to use eBay more. Thank you sir.

 

Hey, I stumbled across this build thread a few days ago. I had to ask, do you have any videos of the performance of the truck after all of these improvements? Just on the trails you were talking about. I'm trying to build my truck up and yours is sort of my goal. I have an 89 pickup but it should look fairly similar.

So far I've already decided to do the SDORI 1.5" Ball Joint spacers w/ the Control arm Brace and the Sway-a-Way Torsion Bars. At that point I'll determine if I need the Pro Comp Add a Leaf or if it works for me. I have 215-75-15 tires so it might be a good idea. I'm putting in a cold air intake this week and plan to do an exhaust system on it later. Also, how did you set up the hidden antenna?