My 61 Panel

[Strodder]

Lookin awesome

[joe231]

[Frizzle Fry]

Super sick!

[twotons]

bad ass build dude.

[Dinos63]

nice work pat!!!

[Apache63]

Today I started to build my Floor into my Panel , here are some pic´s .........

















Pat

[markeb01]

Very impressive, especially with so much fab work to do.

[Alan's Classic]

Beautiful

[daverod]

Looks cool. Why did you have to reenforce it so much?

[Strodder]

Originally Posted by daverod

Looks cool. Why did you have to reenforce it so much?

X2

[amueller454]

dude that panel is sick! i wanna get mine on the ground like that! Awesome work

[ruffrida2005]

Nice over kill like always. What you laying on top 1" plate?

[daverod]

Too funny

[padresag]

Originally Posted by daverod

Looks cool. Why did you have to reenforce it so much?

I bet because he lost continuity of the floor due to the hump. sure is going to stiffen it up back there. should be no squeaks coming from that floor
it does look like he is going to put a metal floor in it as he has removed the spacing for the plywood. the 3/4" plywood would sit on top of the braces and go under the lip of the inner side panels that now rest right on the cross braces
ron

[Bugeyev8]

Sweet ride, I am always impressed with you guys out of Country that build American iron, I sold my 72 Ford Ranchero GT,to a guy in Germany he said it would be one of a kind and he was going to pull his race car with it

Keep up the work , I will love to see the futore progress !!

[likaroc13]

what size tire are you running, & what brand? thanks.....btw, the Panel is looking great

[padresag]

Originally Posted by padresag

By rondavid, shot with E8800 at 2009-12-30

By rondavid, shot with E8800 at 2009-12-30
pics of suburban-panel body insulators

Ron, this is Lewis. Please forgive me for not getting back sooner, but I have been busy in my work for the church I serve. I checked both my 65-66 parts manual and my 67-72 parts manual. This is what I discovered: 1964-6 body mounts are p/n 3794779, w/dimentions of 1.76" w; 3.00" l; 0.92" thick, needing 8 (up & lwr same). The 67-8 p/n is 3909351 up & lwr, 69-72 uses 3909351 as the lwr, but p/n 3946246 is the upr. No dimentions are given for these cushions, and it seems that the frame changed in '69. Qty's in 67-8 are 16, with 69-72 requiring 10 of each. If you have dimentional axcess to the later cushions, these 64-66 dimentions should help you. Like you, I suspect that the 67-8 cushions will work, but there is no superseded p/n's between the body styles. I can tell you that years ago I bought cab mounts for my 65 and the p/n's had superseded to the mounts for the 67-72 cabs. I hope that this info is of some assistance in answerring this question.

the dimensions sound right. the .92" high includes the raised section around the bolt hole.
The measurement excl the raised section is between about .73-.74" high
hope that helps
ron

you can see one that is partially collapsed in the top right

I did some follow up on these insulators and the 3946246 is still a good # from gm. it is stocked in Lansing, mich. it is on the discontinued list though. list at about 25.00 each. they were last listed as the #3 upper body insulator on a 73-91 blazer/jimmy. classic industries has them for 13.00 each and look under 69-72 suburban
ron
they work on the 64-66 suburbans

[Apache63]

back again ,


so here´s an update to my Panel and what i´ve done in last couple of Month!
I´m very busy in last time , so i had no time for my Panel !

here are now some Pic´s :

make the Breake Booster fit:









make some little thing´s :
Wiring airride , Exhaust complete , trans cooler ,
Brake and Fuel lines ..............








Pat

[Apache63]

more.......

built the Floor .........















and painted the Floor in Bundeswehr Green RAL 6031.........





The first time that the body sit´s on the Frame , i noticed that the rear end
are to wide (it´s from a G20) , so i changed it into a 12bolt Rearend , a lot of mesurement ........again (i love it)

Now is everything fine and fit´s perfectly!!!!


Pat

[Apache63]

@padresag :

thank for your help!
I´m using mid 70´s Blazer Bodymount´s , they´ll fit´s nearly perfect!!

@ruffrida2005 :

No , not a 1" plate it´s a 1" plate that i cut into small slices , like cheese !!
a lot of work but it work´s and here´s the tool:




i´ll buy some new instrunemts:



expesive, but i love the BomberStyle!!!!

[Alan's Classic]

As usual nice work and progress.

[Dinos63]

duuude glad to see you back at it and killer job kat!!!!!!

[Strodder]

Really nice work.

[daverod]

I was just reading somthing about that trans cooler" Creep" said it did'nt work like that.http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=374267 I love it. You've been busy. That thing will take out a IED. You need to go to work building floors for the Army's Hummers.

[WillieloRidez]

Looks sweet man