Overlandtowater’s solid axle suburban

[Overlandtowater]

Painted the brackets with bedliner and put them on starting to look like a prerunner with all these zip ties.

 

[Overlandtowater]

Reinstalled the carpet and drawer tonight also. It sags a little bit. Might have to put a spacer in when i get the bumper done and put on .

 

[zgfiredude]

Just got sucked in to all 32 pages...............keep up the good work!

 

[Overlandtowater]

Just got sucked in to all 32 pages...............keep up the good work!

Thanks its got a long ways to go and it takes a little while to get stuff done (single income family) but its slowly getting there.

 

[Overlandtowater]

600lbs of steel. I think I bought too much bur hey I may make a wrong bend or two...20ft stuff on 12ft trailer....that 4x8x3/16 is 245lbs didn't think I was going to be able to get it off by myself...

 

[Overlandtowater]

Pulled the flares off the bumper and hitch off, when I pulled the driver side flare off I noticed the fasteners were different and almost dreaded pulling it I knew there was some damage on that corner the lower rear quarter had a dent and the tail light had broken fasteners and i was expecting worse damage than was there, you can see the peck marks from a hammering from the inside.

 

[Overlandtowater]

so if I cut 8" off the bottom it will be even with the bottom of the body mounts I really want to trim the bottoms up 10" but then I will need to cut an angle on end the body mounts and cap it off but I really don't know if 1.5 -2" is worth the work.

 

[Overlandtowater]

It all starts somewhere.

 

[Overlandtowater]

No going back now... 30" to the cut line from the ground.

 

[Mekcanix]

I love the sketches! i have a binder somewhere with my graph paper doodles/designs all the way back to my old BroncoII to the jeeps and gmc now I am starting on a winch mount for my rebel. keep this up

 

[Overlandtowater]

 

[Overlandtowater]

Got the bumper tube cur an made some patterns for the mounts an traced it over on the 3/16 to cut out tomorrow.

 

[ajmaudio]

Its didn't break the back tires loose...….Notice the Bump Bump when it downshifts into second...… 4600 to 4200 drop as soon as it downshifts, slippage I hope not!

I know this is old, but that extra "slip" into second could be too much slack on the actuator pin to band... if you push in on the cover of the apply piston (where you put in the vette servo) and see how far in the cover travels you can get a good idea. If your at or over 1/8" travel you should probably consider getting a longer pin to take up the slack at least.

 

[Overlandtowater]

I dont remember the amount of play when I did the install but i do remember it was right in the middle of the accepted tolerance...I think I was being hypersensitive about the transmission after putting the shift kit in..the bump bump has either gone away or I've gotten used to it because I don't notice it anymore. Thanks for the info and your knowledge and looking at my thread.

 

[Overlandtowater]

I have a predicament, I was planning on making the frame mount. I was planning on just making a box and drilling all the way through but the frame has a huge cut out on yhe inside and using through bolts wont do any good, should i just capture one side of the frame or go ahead with the box style? I didn't plan on welding it to the frame but if i did there could be some good area to weld around the cut out.