almost free things to your jeep

I do alot of stuff for free.

My favorite is a saginaw power steering box brace. Goes from the box to the opposite frame rail. I made it out of a short piece of pipe and some scrap metal/angle iron. Took an hour, works great.

I am a big fan of that GM retractable light. I put them on every dashboard i got. Its priceless to see peoples faces when you wrap that light around the jeep and stick the magnet to something metal.

My windshield washer resevoir is a napa coolant container with a hole drilled in the bottom for a motor. Works great

I have a summit heater. The blower motor burnt out in 3 years. I found replacements but none of them had a 6 inch or so shaft for the squirrel cage. I cut the long 1/4" shaft off the old motor, and attached it to the new motor's shaft with a 4 inch piece of 5/16 brake line as a sleeve...filled with jb weld. It centered and ballanced the squirrel cage perfectly.

I made my cardboard piece of junk glove box out of the seat on a metal fold up chair. Just cut it out, replicated the shape and screwed it in. works great.

Hockey pucks for body mounts. For a buck a piece, I don't mind replaceing them if they crack out in 3 years. Its probably a good thing to get the body mount bolts movin every few years anyways.

I used those solid rubber black bungee cords to lay my underseat gas tank ontop of.

Get your clear plastic fram fuel filters from walmart! heck, buy two!

 

Cool shifter!

 

if your talkin about mine it another homebuilt out of one of my wife spike elk antlers and a piece of a brass 1 inch valve stem. drilled and tapped the piece of brass then cut off a bolt shanked it up in my drill and took a file to it. I then drilled two 1/8" holes in it epoxied in two pieces of brazing rod drilled the end of the elk horn to fit them epoxied it on then when set up sanded it down to fit the valve stem dyed the top to match and screwed it on the shifter.

 

I got a whole free Jeep! My 58 was a gift from a family friend, got a ride in it back when I was 14, at 41 it arrived in my driveway, needs a lot but I am plowing through!

Looks pretty, and a ton of money was spent on this thing during its life including an interesting "restoration" in the 70s, bu tid oes need a lot.
It has been great fun this past year working to get him back to life....

And this forum has been invaluable all you folks rock, and you're all very nice to the newbies!

Thanks!!