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Stalled till February...

The front axle on the White 'burb and my junk Yukon engine collection ate up all my Argon $$.

On the plus side Momma is pushin' me to get the bronze beast rollin' soon! And what Momma says... Daddy does!

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yay!!!!!!

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well a friend of mine named Thomas started there last year. Im sure ya know him he works in maint. too.

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Bonewell? Yeah, I know who he is. That's the only Thomas I can think of. Cool!

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thats the guy. small world

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Moved to the new Suburban Project Section!

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your one of the first ones!

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Updates!

Got the gas for my welder, got a new regulator, and the rest of the parts to get it working!

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Got the laptop fixed... its now the frankentop

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Got another project in the way for a week or 2

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It's my buddies M1008. I got it running for him and need to finish up a few other things so it is drivable. It's a cool truck! I actually have the original TM's for this truck, so working on it has been easy.

I will explain this picture later

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Today I cleaned up the garage so I can get to work on the Suburban door. I had help

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She is a Monkey! She was picking the bolts for the Burb out of the cans, and trying to put them back on it! Momma took this picture.

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Also today I took my buddy to the coolest car and dog wash EVER!!!!

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If not tonight, then tomorrow I am going to start welding the door up. I need to find a right door to slice up now!

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My welder has been out of gas since November (even though I have lots of gas). I used lots of doors to make one phantom door. I used the rear of a passenger door for the front of the new door for the body lines. I used the rear of a drivers door for the rear of the new door. Multiple window frames to build the new window frame. I found 2 rusted out suburban doors for FREE for the window frames. I have 2 FREE cabs for the door jamb parts. Wife doesn't like back yard right now. Not to mention the other complete truck for the front sheetmetal. I have been collecting parts for 6 years now.

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thats cool truck your buddy has but glad your back to work on your door. o and love the computer!

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great job and beautiful pics why is a ford bed doing dog washing?

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Yeah, I am looking for a right door so the contour of the 4th door matches the rear of the drivers door... then I will see how many more doors I will end up needing

Once the CUCV is done I will be working on finishing a 14 bolt too;)

Cuz it couldn't cut it as a pick-up, so it had to go into doing something else with it's life. Seems like it found its niche! Come on, you knew if you could have a pick-up box for a bath tub you would be all over it!

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hahhaha thats funny i would get a 67 72 lwb bed and use it hahaha

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Parts are going together.

Hope tonight I can finish what I started on this piece. My son isn't feeling too well, so I had to stop here. I got everything tacked in, and started welding it up. I finish welded the top of the sill. It is taking a lot of time because I am keeping my heat down and checking and re-checking fit over and over again!

I really need to find a passenger door so I can keep going once this is done.

Body guys, what do you think? How am I doin?

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yay door looks good so far

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Looks like how mine started. Just need to add a little here and cut out a little there and it will all work out. When your welds start to overlap you are getting close.:lol:

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cool on the door great on the axle!

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Just thought of something, if your still lookin for a door let me know witch one cause I might have an extra one lying around that I picked up for my extended cab build that I may not need. I think I am down to just needing some good burb front doors and have a surplus of truck doors.

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looks like great work to me on the door!

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I am looking for a right door. it doesn't have to be pretty, I am only going to use the back half of the door frame. I will give you a call tomorrow. If not, I will send you a pm in the PM... I may know where you can get the burb doors you are looking for too

THANKS!!!

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Wow you had some luck on the motors, howd the 3rd one turn out? lookin' good so far!@

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Funny story... I have two wallets... one I carry, one I keep all my rarely used cards in...

For the past few weeks, every time my wife would ask me if I had any cash, I would check the one I carry and say "no". Well, today, since we were going to the Pediatricians office for the minions I grabbed the other wallet and handed it to my wife. While waiting in the room for the DR my wife is organizing my wallet and exclaims "Whoa! Babe! I thought you said you didn't have any cash!" (I am thinking she is messing with me) Of course I reply "I don't!" Next thing I know she is pulling a WAD of cash out of my wallet! Where the frick did that come from! (I still don't remember!) Well, needless to say, my senility bought me some much needed parts for the burb and momma a new double jogging stroller.

So I already have a parts list for the next time I go to the Doctors... and some updates and pictures will be here tomorrow!

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funny! LOL! Old age really affect's the mind. Happens to me about 10 times a day, can't remember ware I set down my tools!

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Dirty
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More silicone than Hollywood
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Clean
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Locked and loaded
Gonna play with the contact pattern a little more tomorrow, I'm not 100% satisfied with it yet.
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Initial shim pack at 0.020"... It looks like 0.025" will dial it in perfect
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Nice work! Looks good!

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Yep lookin good!

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Nice Project man, I am lovin the burb. I think it is a great project for you and your family. You get it done right and it will be a great rig for many years to come.

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that looks beast! jeremy keep up the good work!

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Oops... good thing I don't do this for a living!

Oh yeah, Suburban...

These should help with stopping

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Again with the silicone! Really!

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I Forgot to bring my torque wrenches home to finish the axle up. I also need to find my wheel studs. I cant find them anywhere!

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Some people swear by permatex products..lol

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haha permatex products. disc brakes, mmmmmmmmm

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Very nice build man - excited to see how it turns out!!!

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Some swear by them, I swear at them! just think what damage one of those silicone beads could do to a ring and pinion! I will take a picture of how much I use on the cover... And it WILL SEAL! You can see I have NONE squeezing out of the pinion carrier pictured above... also I think my M1008 thread has another picture of one done right.

Eventually I will post the pictures of the clear RTV that was sealing some of the holes in the body! I'm not complaining about that one though... it DID keep SOME water out. I have had these disc brackets forever! I was going to use them on my 96 SAS rig, but they wouldn't clear the springs!

Glad you are following along! I'm hoping to have some sweet updates by the end of next week!

Here are some of my targets for these next two weeks:

Finish the 14 bolt (there's a surprise ending to this one!)
See what Chris has for doors
Get the C-pillar tacked in

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Ready and waiting! Just let me know!

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This is MINE!!!! No body better out bid me!

Sweet camper on eBay

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If you get this I would love to get a close look at it. The 348/409 block is rare! Real neat camper. Hope you get it.

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It's actually a 305 v6,still a cool motor!

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I hope the reserve isn't too high. And if you do get it and need engine parts I have a V6 that doesn't run but is complete. Very odd engine if you study it close.

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ok guess to just look quick and not read didn't pay again. o well.

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Well it already went over my price range and the reserve isn't met yet, but, MAN! That color scheme ROCKS!!!! I am gonna have to do my research on it now, because I have never seen that silver (or grey) and that yellow (green?) together. And I know GMC had some wacky combos!