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Originally Posted by bufmatmuslepants
Rockauto is your friend for alot of that. The tailgate handle is like $6, trim and linkages are cheap, parking brake cables, pedal pads, all brand new for cheap. Alot of the rest of that can easily and cheaply (and fun) to get from a pick n pull. Just remember gloves and a flashlight, I forgot mine yesterday and was sad.
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Bummer on the flashlight. I hate misplacing and losing tools. I haven't had good experiences at the junkyard nearest my house in the past, but I'll check it out next week when I get a day off.
I finally got a few minutes free at work, so I figured I'd paste some "before" pictures. Its pretty haggard right now, but over time I'm sure it will be a lot better.
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Don't have a whole lot of room where it was parked to get a better angle.
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Under the hood. Pretty dirty.
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Dirty interior. You can see the missing horn button, torn up bench seat, and the three broken seat belt receivers. Does anyone know a good spot where I can get new sets of seat belts? These seem like a pretty bad design. One of them fell apart in my hands last night while I was trying to get it to work. It was full of plastic pieces and broken into about 10 pieces.
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Door panel held in with hex head sheet metal screws. Door lock won't work, just flops around.
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Steering wheel rocks up and down. Their solution: binder clips!
Anyway, I'm not very proud of how dirty it is, but these are true "before" pictures. I haven't done anything to it at all yet, not even wiped it down. Saturday, I'll have a bit of time to give it a bath and see about fixing a few things.
Edit: Need to resize images, they were obnoxiously huge. Will get to it as soon as I can.