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In the past few months, I have been preoccupied with school and taking care of the family. Needless to say, there has been no work done on the Suburban during that time. That streak ended a couple days ago when I was able to get over to my parents house and start removing any bolt-on items from...

About three weekends ago I went out to lift the body off the frame, but my plan failed miserably. The gist of it was to slide a pair of landscaping timbers under the body and use the two Hi-Lifts to raise one end enough to set some barrels underneath, then repeat for the other end. It was a...

Today was a short working day since it was my niece's birthday party. For the time I was working, I figured out that I was just being a pansy last weekend and just needed to lift the body a bit more to get seperation. I came to this after about half an hour of double checking any connections...

My dad is still wrapping up some details with his radio tower. I went over yesterday to help, but he ended up needing to run some errands all morning and then it was a one man job when he got back. He showed me how to lace the cables to the tower, which is fairly easy and straightforward, so I...

@nitro_rat, thanks for all the info. I am still just throwing around idea with people I know and trying to work the ABS idea in my head. I appreciate the suggestions as to how it might be feasible.

I went to my parent’s place to help my dad assembly and raise a small radio tower. It wasn’t an all-day affair so I spent a few hours making an inventory of all the item that I had previously purchased and other random parts that I had laying around from other trucks. I took a bunch pictures of...

Yesterday morning I went rucking for a bit. During that time I was thinking about the suburban and decided to rename it. My wife, Amanda, was quite pleased to hear that since she didn’t want to need to explain the name to her parents or our kid when he is old enough. As of now, I think I am...

Ok, so nearly six years later and I am just now getting back to thinking about BOPAS. A lot has changed for me and my suburban. For example, I am married with child, the body of the suburban is full of cancer, and I have a proper daily driver. A week or two ago I was at my dad’s house and...

The frame brace is installed. It is really easy to put in if you have a drill and a couple of washers. All in all, it really is a bolt in item. - This is why I utilized the washers. - - The drill was for this lonely bolt on the cross member. There was actually a hole already there, but it was...

Larry, thanks for the recomendation. I have no cracks at the moment and welding was going to be my way of preventing them. I did purchase the brace and will have it installed next time I get back to it.

Between life happening and trying to get motivation to spend some time with the burb, it has been a little over two months since I've reported anything. A couple images during the few spouts of work. - This is my new way of pulling the locking hub out. Thank you, Dad. - The leaf spring center...

Unsure of what I wanted to do this weekend, I walked back to my one of my old projects that I am planning on stealing the saddlebag tanks from and started looking at the tanks usability. Two seconds later, I am no longer planning on using those tanks. - With nothing to do yet, I decided to go...

Darwin, forgive me, but why the worry of driving in a ULSD truck?

It has been three weekends since I last wrote anything and I haven't actually done anything until yesterday. I finished putting the engine accessories on the new engine but still have a few minor things to get to make it complete. - More importantly, I moved BOPAS from the "hill" to the carport...

I live in Bryan, but currently do all my work out in Austin County.