well a couple weeks ago there was a thread about someone making custom grille inserts out of gutter guards for their dakota, well i tried it out on my ram and i think it was easy (only took me about 1.5 hours) and cheap (only cost like $9) and looks really good (almost like the $150 all chrome mesh grille in the lmc catalog!).
heres a before

and after



also i picked up a new instrument cluster from the jy

my original one is on bottom with no-tach.
the new one is out of a durango, the only difference is the 4x4 light now says part-time 4wd and the mileage says i have 150k instead of 110k, and it only cost me $30!

the only problem i had was the high beam light would stay on till i turned the headlights on. even with no key and the truck off. the solution was just remove that bulb from the cluster. other than that one problem i like it. just plug and play!

i also took the whole cluster apart cleaned out all the dust, check/replaced the burnt out bulbs, and painted the inside trim white to add a little color to my dash. i havent taken a pic of them installed but ill get one tomorrow when its bright outside.

but tell me what you guys think.

 

that grille looks sweet !! i may try that !

do you have a pic of what it looks like on the truck now ?

 

Must post a step by step on the grill

Looks good

 

ill get one tomorrow it looks really good almost wish i didnt weld on my brush guard so you could see it a little better.

right now im making some grilles to fill in the holes of the factory bumper where the fog lights are supposed to be.

 

as for the step by step, i tried to take a bunch of pics but it was cold here last week so i did it all inside and all the pics are pretty dark.

 

Looks pretty good.
How did you attach them to the grille?
Did you leave the honeycomb behind them?

Picked up the gutter guards 6 months ago while at Lowes buying my 80gal compressor. Ive only cut the templates for the grille & fender openings. Havent cut the material yet. Still debating between chrome finish or Indy blue &/or extend stripes to them (Ill powdercoat them)

 

I did the gutter mesh in my Saturn a few years ago, it came out pretty good. Looked better than the $60 mesh they sell for cars.. I thought about doing it on my truck when I bought it, but never got around to it. Kinda wanted a billet grill, but I'm too cheap.

 

The frist mod in did to my truck 3 years ago only did the bumper

 

Oh ya your grill looks great!!!!! Btw

 

looks good i still like the billet inserts a little better

indy you should definatly do it and coat it to match the truck, blue with the stripes would look amazing