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Sold 85 2500 Burb Body & Stuff

Duke4AZ

Duke4AZ

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1985 Suburban 2500 4WD Cabin Body - $500 + Shipping (~$250)
If you have a square body 'burb in rough shape, here is something you might be interested in. This is an AZ truck with NO rust or body damage of any sort. No visible dents, dings, rot or sheet metal imperfections, at least that I have been able to find, and I have been pretty much through it. Original paint (sun bleached), not repainted, again as far as I can tell. Odometer has 77K miles and based on the lack of wear of the switches and dash I think it is legitimate.

It is a parts truck that I bought to fit out my 88K5. I have what I want and now want to move this off my property. I think the body is in too sweet of condition to crush so I want to get it to a new home.

Here is the deal. I am coming through Colorado the 1st part of July, and need to be in Denver with business concluded by the 6th. I will deliver the truck to an agreed upon location in the Denver area on Thursday the 5th of July, 2017. Other locations and dates are negotiable.

I am asking $500 for the truck + $250 (tbc) to basically handle the shipping, including trailer rental.

Transaction details:
- $250 deposit up on acceptance of conditions.
- Remaining due upon delivery.
- Deposit is refundable if buyer decides to NOT buy the truck prior to June 30, 2017. (I will be transporting the truck on July 1, 2017.
- Methods of payment: PayPal, other tbd.
- Pick up is also an option, but it is summer in Phoenix and damned hot right now.

Pictures included are of whole truck including pieces listed below that are NOT included with the deal. Additional pictures of existing truck upon request or when schedule will allow. And yes, it does rained in Phoenix on occasion.

INCLUDED WITH TRUCK:
- Arizona NO Rust truck body.
- Clean AZ Title in hand and transferable
- Complete Cabin sheet metal (less front doors)
- Electric tailgate
- Some interior stuff like customer seats & console, but mostly crap.
- All glass (less front doors); privacy tint w/no breakage except windshield
- Stock Luggage Rack
- Complete running gear from water pump to front and rear axles including:
- transmission,
- transfer case,
- both front and rear drive lines,
- front and rear axles w/stock hubs.
- 6.2 Diesel (blown w/some pieces missing from top end)
- Banks Turbo (untested basket case)
- Stock axles: 14bbt SF rear, 10 bolt front
- Grill, headlights, bezels.

NOT INCLUDED:
- NO Hood (but will include 6.2 Diesel hood ornament if desired)
- NO Front fenders (may negotiate on these if really needed)
- NO Front or Rear bumpers
- NO wheels & tires (will trade existing rollers for comparable set for convenience - 8 bolt pattern)
- NO Radiator
- NO Radiator support.
- NO Hydraulic brake master cylinder.
- Some interior trim pieces have been removed.
- NO Tail light assemblies

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Ohio would be a nice place to go if I had the time. Born in Finley, highschool in Fremont, college at UC.
 
Nice.

It was quite "exciting" bringing it home. For future reference, don't rent a u-haul car hauler to haul a suburban. I knew it was going to be at the limits of the trailer, but that wasn't the problem, it fit by inches. I noticed that when it was loaded, the suspension on my truck didn't settle at all, I would estimate that the trailer was very near neutral balance. Clearly not enough hitch weight, but I thought my truck was heavy enough to do what needed to be done, though at a limited speed that I expected would be around 50, which seemed supported by the drive to the storage unit for the front sheetmetal. Don't make that mistake. There were warnings, but didn't seem anything too terrifying, mostly seeming to just require careful driving, so on we went. But when I merged onto the I10 and hit about 55, WHOA NELLIE, HANG ON! BIG case of tail wagging the dog that went way bad real fast. I think part of it was made much worse by me not mentally adjusting my instinctive response for a surge brake, and so gently caressing the brake (that would normally apply light trailer braking) was absolutely the wrong thing to do, and Nick and his boy had a front row seat as I tried to rein it in and almost failed. But it did clear 3 lanes of traffic quite quickly, everyone seemed to have somewhere else they needed to be RIGHT NOW. But over a very long braking distance, which at no time did the oscillations completely subside, I managed to heard it to an off ramp where things finally settled down. Turns out, maximum safe speed was about 40-45, considerably less when there were any hoopties in the road (like one stretch where every side road melded with our road with a good 6"+ hump). So, instead of a trip back along the freeway, we talked on the speaker phone used like an intercom (which we were doing when things went wrong) as Nick navigated my by the best surface street options from one end of the metro area to the other (45+ min at speed on freeways). And then just to make things more delightful, we stopped by to get the title changed over, and they FLAT REFUSE to do anything unless it's OFF the trailer. So we unload right there in the parking lot, and she does nothing but looks at the VIN on the dash for maybe 30 seconds, the one on the door for maybe a minute (faded and hard to read), and then declares it ok, after which we reload. I can't say how thankful I was to have Nick and his son helping, not the least of which was the winch on his Sub as we reloaded a second time. But then just as we are getting it into position, the dead sub causes the live one to shift, so Nick's son was dispatched to apply brake manually. But doing the job as best he could, and none of us realizing that apparently hydroboost brakes don't like hard pedal maintained for an extended duration, we killed Nick's power steering pump and he had to apply strong arm manual steering to get home, which luckily was just down the road, and no way he needed to wrestle that thing to my house AND back home under manual brake and steer. I continued on and did the final unload on my own. That in itself was an adventure doing an unload of a dead sub, and I almost gave in and asked Nick to run by, but finally got it done with some similarly sketchy red-neck engineering.

Now, those of you that know me won't be surprised at any of this. The crap that goes wrong around me has taken on an almost supernatural aspect, I could go on and on, and on. But suffice it to say that surviving that one "anything that can go wrong will" tail wagging moment, roughly 30 minutes long in my memory of the event, and I still need to iron out the big crease in the middle of my seat, but surviving that used up my limit of "good luck" for at least the next month.

I knew better, but thought it would be "ok if I'm careful", so ultimately the fault is squarely my own.

I'm sure things will continue like this, they always do. My mistake was knowing that it was a bit goosey and continuing, and it almost cost me my beloved 2500HD, and maybe a whole lot more...
 
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My god, dude. That just freaked me out. Glad you made it home and unloaded. I never imagined it would pull that bad. I am guessing those two extra pull-down straps may have come in handy, otherwise there may have been a dead sub doing its last dance on I-10. Wow!

Hopefully all up from here.
 
Yeah, it got pretty crazy. But totally my fault. I know my truck and towing, I hauled the truggy all over the SW. It should have settled the suspension, and it clearly didn't. Not sure how it would be fixed at that point, but I should have called it and rehashed the plan. I had multiple opportunities. I knew it wasn't right before I ever pulled out of your drive. I knew it didn't feel quite right a few times driving to the storage unit, and then to the on ramp. Just before the on ramp Nick saw one of the events and declared it "some sketchy shit", asking if I was sure about the freeway plan. But up until that on ramp, I thought it all felt manageable as long as I kept it smooth and in the slow lane around 50 or so depending. So I wanted to give it a try, and exit if it felt dangerous. I could not have been more wrong, lesson (re)learned...

And yes, Nick saved the day by strongly recommending those extra tie downs on the tail end. Otherwise that Sub would surely have gone walkabout on the I10, bad things.. BAD things...

I will also mention that with Nick's knowledge of the roads and traffic patterns, I was really surprised how easy and fast (and safe) we made it to the N side. So I guess I'll just leave it saying, sure glad Nick and his boy were there that day.

Thanks for the link, I'll have to check that out. Looks like lots of interesting stuff there.
 
you mentioned even before leaving my place that the trailer did not feel right. The burb must have back loaded the trailer just enough to eliminate all tongue weight. Maybe should have loaded it backwards. Live and learn.
 
As promised, I finally started my build thread, so here it is.
https://ck5.com/forums/threads/sad-suburban.336122/#post-3955329

I thought I remembered replying to this, but don't see it. Basically, I agree. With that big overhang in the rear over the tongue with the tires up on the stops, with all the stuff tossed in the tail end, I think it would have been hugely improved. It would take a lot to offset that 6.2 even with the front cap off, but I think it would have worked.
 
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