86 suburban

[Fastereddie]

I guess I was wrong about never doing any paint work on this. Since I busted out both of my backseat windows last weekend wheeling; I decided to throw some white tractor paint on these doors I had laying around.

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You missed a spot

 

[brandon85465]

New splines and longer slip yoke.

 

[Big Ray]

I'm digging the single headlight look.
The K5 I briefly owned reminded me of all the cool rides I had eith singl lights. My 79 CJ-7, 79 Z-28, 79 K5, 87 Corvette, 95 ZJ...and 2 Harleys lol!

 

[brandon85465]

Got the new shaft put in today, and test flexed it with my skid loader. The ride area for the slip yoke is 7”. Looks like this shaft will work a lot better. I’m going to do some better testing and possibly add some bump stops when I have more free time.

 

[Wes Harden]

What is the slip with front compressed

 

[brandon85465]

What is the slip with front compressed

Very close to bottoming out. I plan to do some kind of bump stop to prevent issue.

 

[brandon85465]

I flexed the passenger side, and it looks like the tire goes into the body before the driveshaft bottoms out. For now I’ll just run it as is; in the future I’ll extend the factory bump stops.

 

[brandon85465]

I pulled out two of the mirror nutserts on the passenger side last weekend, so I welded in some 1/4” bolts and washers. I also put a matching set of mirrors on from my parts truck.

 

[brandon85465]

Gave it a bath and topped off the fuel. I burned just over 7 gallons. Not horrible for 12 hours of wheeling.

 

[brandon85465]

Flexing on a stump in the tree dump.

 

[Truckman4life]

Flexing on a stump in the tree dump.

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Kinda like mall crawling! but for redneck country folks.

 

[brandon85465]

I saw these pictures of a 241/241 doubler on Facebook. I’m curious if I could stick a 241 range box infront of my 208. I have plenty of 88-98 ifs 241 cases laying around. Anybody on here ever done anything similar?

 

[Truckman4life]

There looks to be a place from pirate back in the day that was doing doublers for all kinds of transfer cases. DD Machine on there. MIA since like 2015. Little bit of google fu shows a D&D Machine up in Portland which is where they were from. Maybe call them and see. (503) 753-5033 D&D Machine

 

[brandon85465]

Nothing noteworthy with this thing, but I did drive it about 45 miles today to grab some paperwork. I have a Holley terminator efi kit for it and an anti wrap setup to build. The only thing missing is time to work on it.

 

[brandon85465]

Headed for Tuttle in the morning.

 

[Big Ray]

I just re-read this thread again.
What a beast of a truck.

 

[brandon85465]

Didn’t get a lot for pictures this time. Basically followed a group of jeeps around all day. Everything worked flawlessly on the Suburban. My buddy got some videos I will post later on.

 

[metalmachine]

That thing is just badass man

 

[brandon85465]

Thanks!

 

[brandon85465]

Well I spoke too soon. I twisted my front yoke. I thought it was my spring bushings squeaking turns out it was my front u joints. I have everything ordered to make a 1410 front shaft. I also ordered a 1410 yoke for my current shaft to make it a spare.