90 R1500 Suburban Build

[454Sub]

Brought her home for a little bit.

Have a line on five 9in wide center off set beadlocks for around 300$. My current rims are 14in wide center offset. The Boggers look good on them so I need to see what a 18in wide bogger looks like on a 9in rim.

 

[Truckman4life]

Lookin good. I could totally daily a sub like yours.

 

[454Sub]

I did daily it for awhile when it was the only vehicle I had that ran.

It's almost sad to admit it's by far the nicest vehicle I own.

 

[454Sub]

These are the actual wheels from when he got them whenever that was.

 

[454Sub]

Beadlock swap engaged.

One large bonus to living outside of town is the ability to do this at 10pm and nobody cares.

 

[Justin V]

Yeah, neighbors suck sometimes

 

[454Sub]

I have one that's fairly close . They have a son that's about my daughters age. They ain't terrible.

We got into it a year or so ago when my dog finally chewed up his little string mop looking dog. But the damn thing kept coming into my yard and shitting, then barking at my door. So IMO he got lucky with just a few teeth marks on it. Was warned multiple times about that little asshole dog messing with my kids, and my dog is super hardcore about the kids.

But all is well now, they don't mind me working on it and I don't fire it up past 9 or so with it's open headers. That's just obnoxious.

 

[454Sub]

Got 3 off. Don't have enough jack stands. That figures .

 

[Truckman4life]

I got like 10 jack stands just for that purpose. Harbor freight has some nice 6 tons stands and I just bought some 6 ton ones from my local CARQUEST for like $38 for a pair. They go like 26" high.

 

[454Sub]

Looks not half bad. Going to be a pile of work to get them mounted by Saturday.

 

[Truckman4life]

Gonna paint them purple?

 

[454Sub]

You already know it.

 

[MTBLAZER89]

Yeah! Progress!

 

[454Sub]

Can't mount them, but threw the rings on just to see what it looks like. Not bad.

 

[TerryD]

But all is well now, they don't mind me working on it and I don't fire it up past 9 or so with it's open headers. That's just obnoxious.

Obnoxious but occasionally necessarily. The house next to us is a rental. When we had bad neighbors that party all night and kept me up before work, they got the K5 warming up between our houses, open headers Saturday morning.

Most have been ok though.

The blocks look great man! I love wide tires on narrow wheels.

 

[454Sub]

Welded a 3/16 rod inside the wheel about 1in from the bead edge for a cheap beadlock of sorts. Seriously works too, not super easy to get on the bead.



Finished product.



1410 yoke out of a newer 14ff, drilled out for bolts, and a Barnes 4wd pinion guard.



How it looks, didn't have time to paint the last ring but it's whatever. They all hold air so far. 25lbs in them for a few hrs. We shall see. The truck is overall quite a bit narrower. Which inexpected.



One day I want a smaller gas tank, and that axle moved all the way back.

 

[454Sub]

Loading it up to go wheeling in about an HR. Hopefully will come back with some decent pictures this time.

 

[454Sub]

Came back with no pictures hardly.

But I did come back with a broken 1350 205 rear yoke, and a broken front 1410 slip yoke. Broke both at the exact same time.

 

[454Sub]

Bluetooth driveshafts. This is what I get for testing my beadlocks out the irresponsible way.

 

[skunked]

front and rear shafts? Impressive.