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90 Suburban Build Xtreme Offroad TV - Body Work

Greg72 said:
Holy Scrub Radius BATMAN!!!

Between the miles-long wheelbase and those ridiculously wide portal boxes, I sure hope for Ian's sake the apocalypse happens in a wide open field with no trees or obstacles around.

Ain't no way that thing is ever going to be able to turn around on a trail, or even make a U-turn. :yikes:


-G
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He's already stated multiple times it's not built for trails....same as military 6x6's are not built for the trail. Since the wheelbase is so long, the turning radius shouldn't be that tight to begin with meaning the tire scrub will stay to a minimum.

The name of the show is Xtreme4x4, not XtremeTrailTrucks. This show has been on long enough that you have to keep it interesting to keep the views up. If he just kept building jeeps and buggies, people would get bored and the show would go away.

True this truck isn't really practical for many uses, but I still think it's pretty cool and he has shown a couple new industry parts such as the portal kits you can put on a 14bff. That's what this show is all about.

I'm interested to see how the body stretch looks on this burban. Keep this thread updated guys...this is really where I see the updates on it (other than the show on Sundays...but that has some delay until it's aired)
 
sreidmx said:
wasnt there a dodge 6x6 that actually did pretty well?
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Yes, Stan Pruiet's (spel?) from TTC04. His was the bright green late 90's dodge that he converted to a 6x6 with Rockwell's, and he was a judge for TTC for a couple years, then he was the TV Host for TTC for the last couple years (obviously TTC is no more now). For what it was, it actually didn't do too bad on the trails at all
 
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After watching this build, I'm thinking about throwing a second rear axle in front of the existing axle...
 
mrk5 said:
After watching this build, I'm thinking about throwing a second rear axle in front of the existing axle...
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The one thing I'm interested in seeing what he does is how he gets power to both rear axles (unless someone has seen an update on how he does this, if so, post it up).

The reason why the military 6x6's work is cause they are using rockwells where you can connect a driveshaft to the front and rear of the center chunk....but I'm wondering how he's going to do this with two 14bff's in the rear? I was thinking maybe he would use a divorced drop reduction box (kinda like the Monster Truck guys) that has two yokes coming off the back side and just position it where the angles on either driveshaft going to each rear axle isn't too harsh of an angle. That was just something I thought about :dunno:....but still very interested to see how he accomplishes this
 
Kay86K5 said:
The one thing I'm interested in seeing what he does is how he gets power to both rear axles (unless someone has seen an update on how he does this, if so, post it up).

The reason why the military 6x6's work is cause they are using rockwells where you can connect a driveshaft to the front and rear of the center chunk....but I'm wondering how he's going to do this with two 14bff's in the rear? I was thinking maybe he would use a divorced drop reduction box (kinda like the Monster Truck guys) that has two yokes coming off the back side and just position it where the angles on either driveshaft going to each rear axle isn't too harsh of an angle. That was just something I thought about :dunno:....but still very interested to see how he accomplishes this
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Haven't seen anything about that yet.

@truck-oholic he may know....
 
I think the old dodge 6x6 trucks used a transfer case with 2 rear outputs and two driveshafts that go to each axle and the center sections were offset for clearance. On a 14 bolt I would think you could do some kind of power divider with a custom input bearing retainer and pinion to get an output to the rear axle maybe.
 
Originally the Burb was just supposed to be 4x4 with portal boxes and 46s. I started this whole 6x6 thing by suggesting he do a 6x6 fire brush truck for a volunteer fire department as his next "give back" build. I guess he decided not to wait for that opportunity. Anyway, the reason I wanted him to eventually do a 6x6 build is Trailworthy Fab recently came out with a 6x6 Hero case. It had one input and two outputs very similar to an Np200 if you've ever seen one of those. Instead of using one of those he is going with a regular divorced Ford 205 and then using a USA6x6 case at the first axle
Basically you have a 1:1 gear box that mounts vertically at the first axle pinion and then a "jack" shaft from the output of it over the pumpkin to the rear axle pinion. If I understand correctly its essentially a drop case similar to what a monster truck might use except it mounts at the axle instead of up in a subframe.
 
Personally I think at this point what would look the best is if he bobbed the bed to just behind the rear wheel well and then ditched the back cab top and turned it into an extra long bed crew cab. Kind of defeats the purpose of starting with a suburban then though. Alternatively, he could bob the bed and stretch the top to make it a super burb. I really wish he would have stuck with the original plan and then still done the chop and shorten the top like he did. Imagine it like it sits now without the bed added on the back with portals, 46s, 12v Cummins and Ford 6 speed. Tell me that wouldn't be spectacular!
 
At this point its gonna need a Cat 3406 and an eaton 13 speed, rockwells and 53s..
 
truck-oholic said:
I really wish he would have stuck with the original plan and then still done the chop and shorten the top like he did. Imagine it like it sits now without the bed added on the back with portals, 46s, 12v Cummins and Ford 6 speed. Tell me that wouldn't be spectacular!
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I agree.

This thing is looking HUGE.
 
truck-oholic said:
Originally the Burb was just supposed to be 4x4 with portal boxes and 46s. I started this whole 6x6 thing by suggesting he do a 6x6 fire brush truck for a volunteer fire department as his next "give back" build. I guess he decided not to wait for that opportunity. Anyway, the reason I wanted him to eventually do a 6x6 build is Trailworthy Fab recently came out with a 6x6 Hero case. It had one input and two outputs very similar to an Np200 if you've ever seen one of those. Instead of using one of those he is going with a regular divorced Ford 205 and then using a USA6x6 case at the first axle
Basically you have a 1:1 gear box that mounts vertically at the first axle pinion and then a "jack" shaft from the output of it over the pumpkin to the rear axle pinion. If I understand correctly its essentially a drop case similar to what a monster truck might use except it mounts at the axle instead of up in a subframe.
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I was researching it a little and it looks like USA 6x6 went out of business and everyone is talking sh*t about them online. I'm guessing he has connections or old parts laying around. I wanted to check there stuff out but no go on the old internet. It's gonna be one huge ass truck when he's done. Wish I still had cable so I could watch it. Thanks for the updates.
 
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