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90 R1500 Suburban Build

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Body is put back together. I like the no bumper look myself. Just going to hang something that covers just the frame rails and out to the body mounts. Similar to the A Bomb minus all the bruteness of it. I was never a fan of big bumpers, and adding any more weight to the old girl won't be doing it any favors anyways. I will say cut or grooved or in any way modified Boggers are the go to tire for looks.

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454Sub said:
Doubler in. Looks like my tranny hump I accidentally butchered is going to get worse. Figures. Trying to get it flat on the bottom of the frame without cutting into the cab for the 205. The body lift does help this and I personally enjoy the shiz out of my 3in for the accessibility and ease of all sorts of stuff.

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454Sub said:
Body is put back together. I like the no bumper look myself. Just going to hang something that covers just the frame rails and out to the body mounts. Similar to the A Bomb minus all the bruteness of it. I was never a fan of big bumpers, and adding any more weight to the old girl won't be doing it any favors anyways. I will say cut or grooved or in any way modified Boggers are the go to tire for looks.
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After seeing some of those stuck picts.....I think a bumper with a winch might be something to think about. :D
 
Lol. It hasn't gotten stuck much, but when it does it's a fiasco every single time. That is the inherent downfall of Boggers, lockers and BBs. The last one, my profile pic actually, costed about 1500$ to get out. Trackhoes ain't cheap.


And strangely I still don't want a winch. I go into every situation with the blind faith of a die-hard religious person. I believe in her 100%. I just know it won't get stuck. And obviously sometimes I lose. Lol.
 
That's the good ( Or bad ) thing about buying one..... Your never get stuck again. But you find out you spent all that money just to pull everyone else out because they don't have one.
 
Hoping I can get back to working on it again. Work has been slow, projects around the house plus the new family dynamic of having full custody of my two kids and all that neat stuff. But it's trudging along. I did manage to get all of use to Pismo beach to visit my parents and celebrate both my daughter and my fiance's birthday though. And found that California literally has snails that are the size of a 454 piston.

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Finally got it over to my friends house to finish the gears, build the doubler mounts and ect. Hasn't moved in a few years until this point. Does run surprisingly after a new ignition module from hanging the doubler. Impressive that the DIY poly mounts flexed enough to damage it. O well. Lesson learned.

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I'm happy with it. 2* of output shaft angle. Can't get much flatter than that. Has more ground clearance than the stock setup. Won't be able to access the 205 PTO but I have no intentions on using it regardless.

Simple design. Just 4 poly square body front shackle bushings pressed into tubing and then welded into the square. Then standoffs built and bolted on that are removable without taking the crossmember down. Just in case the bushings ever fail. Which combined with the DIY motor mounts I doubt that will be a problem.

So after this the plan is to set pinion angles, send rear shaft off because it's to long for the lathe here, and on and on.

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Looks good......I gotta ask, what color is that on the cases? Kinda looks a cross between plum, purple and pink,
 
I bought the original truck right before I graduated. An 80 on 39.5s. Drove it to my HS graduation. Anyways after I had my daughter and shortly after my son my ex said if the kids aren't interested in it I basically will make your life miserable if you continue to do it. So that's the color my daughter picked out 9 or so years ago. After then it's grown on me, the ex is headed to Fed prison for meth charges, and I just kept painting it Ace Hardware Plum. And the most ironic part is both of the kids simply love it. While she hated it the whole time.
 
I'd say that's quite the success story. I sold my HS wheeler to my dad, and he's trying his best to build it up. Someday i'll probably have to buy it back from him and finish it.
 
Lol, I sold mine to my dad when me and her were splitting up. I wouldn't have put it past her to have taken the title and kept it. And factoring in her current 5-40 in the Fed lockup for a multitude of crimes, being proactive may have been for the best.
 
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