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Thanks Kees and Richard.

Lizard Skin is done. Pulled the powertrain out and took chassis back to Luke for firewall fab.

Yeah, I had big plans to fill some holes in the frame and that didn't happen. Too much other maintenance to do...yard, equipment, other cars.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

He has two Suburbans in the shop.

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Did you use the lizard skin, sound control or ceramic insulation or both?

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He used both, Lowers and yep, it is Lizard Skin...hopefully it will work well. I think I didn't apply it heavily enough on my truck and it was pretty dismal for sound reduction.

I had really good help on the engine. Grandson now knows what tools to use and where they are in the tool box. Grandpa is loving that!

This engine was pretty rust flakey with only a little oil crud around the oil filter. Dawn dish soap in hot water did a reasonable job on the oil crud, followed by two applications of oven cleaner with hose spray off. A little work with a die grinder and wire wheel helped tremendously. The block still needs a more help before paint so I will probably do some spot blasting. Makes me jittery thinking of the blast media and where it could infiltrate into the engine.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Doug, great with the grandson. He will remember more about this that anything he can read. Never to young...Jim

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

I agree Oldman
I used both Lizard skin products on mine, really happy with results. Remember both is only .080" Here is a vid I made showing my results.
http://youtu.be/GymwCS3Mxqo
I had my whole motor and trans sandblasted. Then I took it apart, plug with rag, 2 layers of duck tape on all holes, nothing got in.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Thanks Jim, we do try to make it fun for the boys. He did a nice job painting his bike. Now to find him another project. We have an old 185 three wheeler and a Montgomery Ward scooter from the early 70's stashed away ...hmm...

Lower, thanks for sharing your experience with Lizard Skin. The video was impressive and I imagine we will be happy with it on the Burb.

I will probably do the same with blasting the engine and will follow your lead on the duct tape.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

that is no kidding. not to dampen the mood but I talked about working on cars in my dads eulogy.

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I seen this up in Saint Ignace, MI yesterday.. right by the Mackinac Bridge... I thought of you and your Suburbanite friends lol...

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Yeah I get it. Cars and working on them has been a huge part of my life since Dad taught me to gap and replace spark plugs when I was 8 years old.

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Possm, thanks for thinking of all of us Burb guys. That one is nice and looks like fun, though the entry price to join in looks pretty steep. Wow. Been tagging along on your truck and it is looking sweet!

Storms plus a fair amount of rain has tons of limbs down and grass growing like crazy around here....so it seems I have hours and hours of yard work every Saturday. Tough to get in the shop!

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

While we've been busy on the home front, LJ Customs and Blasting has been making good progress on the Suburban. He does really nice work and is worth checking out on FaceBook.

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The firewall with Vintage Air mounting coming together.

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And he fixed the hatchet modified radio opening.

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Looking good Doug..Marcs gonna have to turn the wick up..

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Killer progress!

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Doug, looking good there buddy...Jim

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Outstanding metal work

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Looks great Doug....I dig seeing the metal work. Oh its also nice to see others worried about my progress.....ha ha

Marc

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Thanks mongo, oh I think Marc is pacing fine. Everyone here knows my typical glacial pace on projects. :)

Thanks Robbie, progress is all Luke.

Appreciate that Jim. He is doing a nice job.

Yes, Luke is very talented.

Thanks Marc. It is coming out really nice. Progress I've done is nil...have many sub projects I could be working on and spent all day yesterday whipping the yard into shape.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

Awesome work on the firewall! You have my curiosity up with the part on the fixture. You show it on a skeleton fixture, with a ball peen hammer tactfully sitting on top, but I assume that it was actually formed with an English Wheel?

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Thanks, like I mentioned, LJ customs and Blasting handled this metal work. I checked with Luke and he actually made the recess by shrinking the edges using the big hammer shown below. You can see the waffling at the edges in the first picture. Then he planished for smoothness.

Search LJ Customs and Blasting on Facebook to see his work.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

The firewall came out really nice.

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Peek inside.

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Made sure there was room for AC using the Vintage Air hollow evaporator. Very light making installation fabrication a little easier.