72 Suburban Build

[67cheby]

Sweet looking good

[jmedero]

Are you going to have to use an electric wiper motor? Do you have to eliminate anything to fit it in?
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[bruin_d]

Originally Posted by jmedero

Are you going to have to use an electric wiper motor? Do you have to eliminate anything to fit it in?
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Not sure. I saw someone on here put one in and talked about eliminating the wiper motor but when I talked to the guy at Scotts Hot Rods he said you don't have to remove anything so we'll see. I'll put pictures up when I do it.

[jmedero]

Let me know how it goes. Justin over at Scotts knows his stuff. I would like to do one of these I just have not seen one on our trucks. I've seen it on other models.
Juan
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[packrat42]

Damnit Man, This thing is bad a$$.

[98L150]

the sub is looking good. cant wait to see more progrees.

[bruin_d]

Well I finally figured out how the heck to raise the floor on my suburban. I've been looking and looking through other builds but there isn't many drop member ed suburbans out there to get ideas from. Instead of doing a round rear fender I decided to make a couple frames per side and box it in with sheet metal. My dad flew out from California to help me with it. He's the one working on one of the fender frames. I'm going to move the filler next into the side of the tank so I can use the factory filler next location. I'll post more pics as it progresses.

[jmedero]

wow you took your entire wood floor out!! LOL. I was trying to keep my rear most part in so that I can build my raised over it and make a storage compartment out of it. Does that make any sense?
Truck is looking killer dude, keep it up.

[jmedero]

Oh I am interested to see how you are going to do the filler neck for the fuel. I used my factory tank just mounted it on top of frame. I think the angle of the neck to the tank on my set up is going to be too sharp on my set up.

[bruin_d]

Originally Posted by jmedero

Oh I am interested to see how you are going to do the filler neck for the fuel. I used my factory tank just mounted it on top of frame. I think the angle of the neck to the tank on my set up is going to be too sharp on my set up.

I'm basically going to cut the stock filler tube down right after the taper. Then I'll make my own tube. We'll see if/how it works. In my head its going to work fine...but you know how that works. I jst need to make sure I have a good enough height difference to fill it. Otherwise I'll have to let the passenger side bags down whenever I fill up

[jmedero]

That would be hilarious to see. The old dude at the next pump saying " excuse me sir, I think your shocks are busted"
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[Wildstreak]

Ok, don't tell me you still haven't gotten your motor mount yet? Why isn't this bad @ss motor in its home yet?

[bruin_d]

Originally Posted by Wildstreak

Ok, don't tell me you still haven't gotten your motor mount yet? Why isn't this bad @ss motor in its home yet?

My radiator that was supposed to get to me in 5 days took 4 weeks and they didn't even send me everything I ordered. My master cylinder/booster setup that I was told would get here in 5-7 days when I ordered it on 5/31...still hasn't been shipped yet. My wiring kit for my accuair stuff that I ordered was never sent to me. I wanted to get all of the wiring and brake stuff done first before I put the motor in but these vendors and their BS shipping promises are killing me.

[bruin_d]

Almost done with rear! I'm very happy with how its turned out. I'm still trying to decide where to mount the valves for the air system.

[camping_man]

i have a 72 3/4 ton regular cab long bed.can i put a 72 burb on that frame

[bruin_d]

Originally Posted by camping_man

i have a 72 3/4 ton regular cab long bed.can i put a 72 burb on that frame

Short answer...no.

[Hart_Rod]

Originally Posted by camping_man

i have a 72 3/4 ton regular cab long bed.can i put a 72 burb on that frame

Originally Posted by bruin_d

Short answer...no.

Actually you can..... However, you will have to swap all of the body mounts (except for the very front ones) and you'll have to weld the end of the rear burb frame rails onto the truck chassis if you want to run a burb factory bumper.....

[bruin_d]

Originally Posted by Hart_Rod

Actually you can..... However, you will have to swap all of the body mounts (except for the very front ones) and you'll have to weld the end of the rear burb frame rails onto the truck chassis if you want to run a burb factory bumper.....

That was my long answer...

[Hart_Rod]

Originally Posted by bruin_d

That was my long answer...

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[jmedero]

Wow that's funny Rob. You and I just had that conversation in my garage today. Tha ks for the visit.

Dude the floor frame looks killer. Your giving me all sorts of ideas. What are you doing for shocks in the rear?

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[bruin_d]

Originally Posted by jmedero

Wow that's funny Rob. You and I just had that conversation in my garage today. Tha ks for the visit.

Dude the floor frame looks killer. Your giving me all sorts of ideas. What are you doing for shocks in the rear?

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The shocks are the ones that Porterbuilt supplies with his drop member setups. I'll have to look at the box to give you a part number.

[bruin_d]

I'm still trying to figure out what to do in the front. Do I make some funky angles to makethe stock back seat bolt up? Do I make it simple and then just get some bucket seats or something?

[jmedero]

Dude two buckets up front and in the rear. Then one nice long console.
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[67cheby]

LOOKING GREAT man !!

[bruin_d]

Pretty productive day. I moved/added my filler tube to the side of the tank in an attempt to use the stock location. I cut all of the sheet metal for the floor and started welding it down. I used 16ga which should be plenty strong, however, it is a PITA to cut.