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  1. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    I used GM part number 15712438. They're soft, I'm pretty sure I compress them completely when I hit them. One day I'll have air bumps on this truck but for now they're doing their job.
  2. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    The yellow foam is bonded to the cup as far as I can tell.
  3. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    Here are some more recent ones.
  4. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    Well it's been a while, time for a little update. Just in case anyone is paying attention. I finally got my winch installed and wired. It sat in a box in my garage for a year and a half... We went camping as often as possible over the summer, anything to get away from the miserable heat...
  5. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    Stock 241 case yeah, but I've got 4.88 gears. There's been a time or two that a lower crawl ratio would have helped but for a majority of the wheeling I do, the stock low range is fine. Someday I'd like to swap in an atlas or an ORD magnum 205 but that's low priority.
  6. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    After, I've got a few hundred miles on it since I did the king pins. Including about 50 dirt miles. Those photos were on Mormon wells road just north of Las Vegas. Overall, she runs great! I might still need some bigger fans (higher cfm rating, not actually larger) but otherwise I couldn't be...
  7. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    So how about some pictures?
  8. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    Here's a current one of my Suburban.
  9. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    I never understood the purpose of blacking out the signal lights. I've seen a few trucks like that.
  10. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    Well the front axle is all done and back together. We headed out to run a local trail called Mormon Wells road this morning. It's not a challenging trail, you can do it in a 2wd pickup but we all had a good time and enjoyed the scenery and weather. We started at 80* in the desert and by the time...
  11. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    Plain old 3/4" plywood and 2x10s. I've been thinking about changing the platform setup, it's not entirely practical. The storage areas underneath are 64" deep and I lose things under it at times because I can't reach them, also the height makes it difficult to crawl in and out of the suburban...
  12. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    Thank you man, I really appreciate that. She's pretty solid as it is, there will always be things I want to change but at this point it performs really well for what it is. I think about it every time I look at the Suburban haha! I've put almost no effort into it in the last 6 months, I've got a...
  13. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    The following weekend we drove to San Diego for a concert, we took the Volkswagen, I won't bore you with that one. This past weekend we headed up to Hurricane Utah for the Winter 4x4 Jamboree. This was our first year at the jamboree and it certainly won't be our last. The event was very...
  14. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    Seems like it's that time again, time to update this thread. It's been a while, I haven't done much to the suburban lately because I've been too busy doing things with the suburban. On New Year's day my wife and I loaded the dogs up in the suburban and headed out to do a little bit of exploring...
  15. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    Hell yeah, I'd like to see some more photos on your rig, it looks great.
  16. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    One day I'll have a snorkel on mine. You know, for all that water we have in southern Nevada.
  17. dieselfuel

    post your Suburban pics

    **** I'll make the drive down there if you'll paint mine! That looks awesome!
  18. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    Thank you man! The crossmember is made by TNA, totallynakedauto.com. I'm running Diy4X (diy4x.com) B52 spring hangers, Offroad Design (offroaddesign.com) upper shackle hangers with 4.5" grease-able shackles and custom made leaf springs. The springs are a 3.5" lift with the axle placed 1"...
  19. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    So I actually did something to the suburban yesterday... Before. https://youtu.be/y-rAJVizwkU After. https://youtu.be/wTzjelXyPFo I've had the new Magnaflow in a box on the table for a couple weeks now so I grabbed a couple pieces of 3" pipe from O'Reilly and my father-in-law and I dug into...
  20. dieselfuel

    '89 GMC Suburban restoration/build up project.

    I'm up in Minnesota for the weekend so this will have to wait til next weekend. Long road trips are about to get a lot more comfortable. It's a Magnaflow 12589, still a straight through glass pack design like my Borla but it's twice the size so it should cut down the volume quite a bit without...
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