rgilmartin
Registered Member
I'll try to tell the story mostly in pictures.
Here she is, just got back into the garage. I ran it in a tough truck back in December. It's been in front of my father's house since. The steering arm was ripped off of the box, and it took a bit of the splines with it. More on that later.
The city sent out a letter that my father was going to miss having his new sidewalk put in if I didn't move the burban, so TODAY it goes back in my garage.
I think it is fitting it is march first, and I want to have it on the road for memorial day, so just about three months to the day... MAN have I got my work cut out for me.
Funding the project is going to be as much of a challenge as the time. Much of my plan is together, at least in my head. Here I'll try to document as much of the process as possible.
My goal is to build a vehicle capable of extended off-road travel in Colorado. Mechanically I'd like to keep it as simple and reliable as possible.
Body wise.. the rear cargo area of the burb is handy, but the length is a hindrance, over rocks and around trees. The front is also hard to see around, especially when going over an incline, it can be hard to spot obstacles in front of you.
In the front I plan on taking out the section covered in white tape.
Along with the grill, and the inner fender.
Then bend the hood along the dotted line down to become the 'fender'
The hood will probably need some additional support, after some surgery removing what's already there.
Then on to the rear.. section the wheel well, move it forward and up inside and out.
Move the rear axle forward as much as possible, even moving the wheel well into the door if possible..
there are power windows inside those doors somewhere I remember HOWDIY talking about it when he shortened his. Maybe I can take out some of it, and just lose some window travel?
a dana 60 front, supposed to be from an 81 one ton chevy, this is DRW, right?
I've got a lot to learn about these, rebuilding kingpins..replace u-joints..hub service/replacement.
And a 14 bolt full floater rear, supposed to be from an 85 blazer CUCV w/ a detroit. It has no axles, hubs, need rotors, calipers, lines,
My 'should a known better' frame crack
And an even better view from the bottom.
I'll try to get some more info about the build plan in the next few days.
I'd really appreciate any input about the body mods..
Here she is, just got back into the garage. I ran it in a tough truck back in December. It's been in front of my father's house since. The steering arm was ripped off of the box, and it took a bit of the splines with it. More on that later.
The city sent out a letter that my father was going to miss having his new sidewalk put in if I didn't move the burban, so TODAY it goes back in my garage.
I think it is fitting it is march first, and I want to have it on the road for memorial day, so just about three months to the day... MAN have I got my work cut out for me.
Funding the project is going to be as much of a challenge as the time. Much of my plan is together, at least in my head. Here I'll try to document as much of the process as possible.
My goal is to build a vehicle capable of extended off-road travel in Colorado. Mechanically I'd like to keep it as simple and reliable as possible.
Body wise.. the rear cargo area of the burb is handy, but the length is a hindrance, over rocks and around trees. The front is also hard to see around, especially when going over an incline, it can be hard to spot obstacles in front of you.
In the front I plan on taking out the section covered in white tape.
Along with the grill, and the inner fender.
Then bend the hood along the dotted line down to become the 'fender'
The hood will probably need some additional support, after some surgery removing what's already there.
Then on to the rear.. section the wheel well, move it forward and up inside and out.
Move the rear axle forward as much as possible, even moving the wheel well into the door if possible..
there are power windows inside those doors somewhere I remember HOWDIY talking about it when he shortened his. Maybe I can take out some of it, and just lose some window travel?
a dana 60 front, supposed to be from an 81 one ton chevy, this is DRW, right?
I've got a lot to learn about these, rebuilding kingpins..replace u-joints..hub service/replacement.
And a 14 bolt full floater rear, supposed to be from an 85 blazer CUCV w/ a detroit. It has no axles, hubs, need rotors, calipers, lines,
My 'should a known better' frame crack
And an even better view from the bottom.
I'll try to get some more info about the build plan in the next few days.
I'd really appreciate any input about the body mods..
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