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I think I payed $50.00 for the mirror and senor off Ebay.
Well that was wrong. I found my post it was $85 for everything. Sorry not meeting the goal of the post.

I had the wire.

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Mounted the senor out in front with the blue connector!

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Cold air intake. Built out of a 90 caddy box. Installed it where the old voltage regulator was.
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Hole for it with the head light relays installed also.

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Love the mods Andy. That mirror is sweet. And very cool cold air box. Are those standard pvc elbows? Or special elbows?

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cjohnson6772,
Thanks,
Just standard 4" elbows. I bought all of the fittings at Lowes. Here is the peice that mounts to the support and inside the box. I cut the threads off both of them. I don't remember the name of it though. They are just fitted together with no glue and I painted them black.;):chevy:

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Link on install of mirror.http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s....php?p=3199789

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Gonna have to agree with Cj on that.... anyway to make this a semi permanent thing

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Took my dash cluster apart today. Repainted the fading milky yellow needles with Krylon 3101 fluorescent red/orange and installed bright white 194 leds (10 led smd per bulb) and wow what a difference it makes in the brightness. I had no need to repaint the inside white or chrome or anything. I will try and post pics tomorrow, but man the difference was incredible and I spent $4.60 shipped for the 4 leds bulbs on ebay and about $6 on the can of spray paint. I used a microfiber towel and some good glass lens cleaner on the gauge lens. Almost forgot: when painting the needles make sure to mask off and paint the hot mark on the temp gauge. That small detail is often missed and imho makes the gauge refresh about 10 times nicer.

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Pictures of said guage cluster?

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Disclaimer: these pics are taken hastily with a crappy camera phone. Should give you the idea though.

Also, make sure to ignore the hideous wrinkle in the woodgrain sticker that has yet to be fixed and also please ignore the crack in the factory steering wheel

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you forgot the indicator on the column........oh and the screws in the dash are not straight up and down.......lmao...looks great!! :metal:

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Electric fan - Free from my brud-n-law's blown-up saturn
Mounting brackets - Free (formerly the brake light brackets on this truck)
Wire - Spool was about $6.00 at Autozone
Toggle switch - Autozone $4.50
Rubber bungee cord - Free (Ifound it on the HWY when my truck overheated last time!!) Haha, funny how things work out ain't it?
Over-flow tank (water bottle) - $5.00 from Wal-Mart (I think)
Tubing - Free (old fuel line i had lying around)

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what was the bungee cord for??

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That looks a lot like my 203 twinstick mods on my son's truck. A cool $10 mod. :chevy:

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The bungee cord is strapped to the cross member and ran over the fan to hold tension and keep it from rattling when I nail the pedal to the floor!!

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mid saturday bump for new guys and for more ideas

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I'm surprised I didn't see any skip white HEI's on here. Mine's in the mail and I'll let you know what happens. :-)

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found a soap I use on the BIG truck its called WAB power wash...you mix 1 cup with 2 gallons of water in a sprayer.....spray truck ( so far works on everything including my enclosed car trailer) down when its dry and cool then with my little Jap power washer rinse it off.....works killer and leaves a good shine...cost $13 which will give you about 40 washes

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18" mini van electric fan for the condensor. $40.00. Junkyard, had the wiring already there from old fan. Trucks fan switch turns the relay on and the fan is on anytime the AC is on. Winter time I disconnect it from the switch.;):chevy:

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So do you still have a regular engine driven fan? Is the 18" fan mounted in front of the condenser like a pusher? Or does it replace your clutch fan and sits behind the radiator as a puller?

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LMBO.... I would call that a "repair".... Notta "mod" lol

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I thought it was more of a band-aid. :lol:

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Hey Hey Hey.... I never said it was a GOOD repair.....

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GOOD enough to get you to the part store lol

Budget throttle rod
 

I may have posted this inside another post, but here's my less than $15 throttle rod. (2) 1/4-28 Female Rods Ends (3.99/surplus), 12" of 1/4-28 all-thread ($3.49/Lowe's), Couple of jamnuts from the junk bin and a length of 1/4" rubber hose. Couple of quick bends for offset, cut to length, silicone the hose and slid it on. Add a few pieces of (new!!!) hardware, and bingo. PO had a piece of crap. Finally got rid of that.

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I stripped the paint off of my 73-87 rallie centers and added new black with chrome bowtie/outer circle center stickers. Well under $50.
H4 4500k hi/lo hid kit is around 50. Get your glare on for low dough. Hooks to the battery, so yu don't fry ****
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Scored This Today at the U-Pull It Outta 86ish Ford Crew Cab Centurion Conversion Truck... It Folds Down To a Bed $40 and tax