Those are kind words. Thank you. Your truck is solidly badass, too, and I enjoy following the steady progress.
We’re off of sand hollow, and headed to dinner. I have a dead rear 1350 joint to replace. Theee days of double low kilt’ it.
David
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One Piece at a Time: My 1985 Diesel Suburban
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We’re off of sand hollow, and headed to dinner. I have a dead rear 1350 joint to replace. Theee days of double low kilt’ it.
David
Good catch, those can be a costly failure otherwise.
She noisy. It was bad enough that the production crew asked about it.
Today was an easy day, with plenty of time for jack-jawing. Kurt is artistic.
We’ve been running 15–18psi
Happiness is a flat bottom forty
Done. Still need to fix the joint.
Passing out now.
David
Sand hollow is outstanding. We’ll post up mod tonight and tomorrow on the drive to Vegas.
David
David
Sort of. Log jumped up on a medano pass a year ago. I should have had sliders, like an adult.
David
Easy there y’all...
Actually I did move Horton today. Well I tried. Not gonna happen by myself
All this stuff you have done this week and you bonk the door on Medano pass? You had to of tried hard to do that. That's practically in my backyard.
Then again we've all had stuff like that happen. A momentary lapse of concentration. Happens to the best of us. Larry got distracted on our last trail ride together and tagged his tie rod and steering stabilizer. We made fun of him of course, but what else are friends for?
True. Sometimes my lapses last for days, and I buy a bunch of parts for a car that doesn’t run.
Shout out to Scott, @muddysub, for setting up the space for me to work and diagnose a problem building and maintaining boost at higher drive pressures. What I initially thought was a wastegate actuator problem turned out to be a thoroughly clogged air filter. I cleaned it before I left Dallas, but the convoy driving through Colorado, Utah, and now Nevada put that kid down. The filter is clean, and the turbo sings again.
Kurt is back in Fort Worth, and I’m entirely unsupervised tomorrow on Rocky Gap. As we did at 21rd, another friend is joining the trail.
David
What air filter setup are you running?
Was following Trail to Sema on IG and knew I had seen this Burb somewhere. Started searching on here to find the build thread and, man, (slow clap) well done. By far the coolest rig on Trail to Sema.
Was following Trail to Sema on IG and knew I had seen this Burb somewhere. Started searching on here to find the build thread and, man, (slow clap) well done. By far the coolest rig on Trail to Sema.
Yeah my son has been watching on IG... He showed me the coolest suburban he’s ever seen! I said yup that’s David’s Rig on Ck5. You should see his work on it and the charger. Top shelf!
Yeah my son has been watching on IG... He showed me the coolest suburban he’s ever seen! I said yup that’s David’s Rig on Ck5. You should see his work on it and the charger. Top shelf!
Yeah I just went through the burb thread. 180 days on the core support is some crazy commitment but so so clean.
And I gotta say I’ve never been a huge fan of that ORD front bumper but for some reason on this thing it just wouldn’t look right without it. Superb!
Oh, The Supurban!
The air filter itself is from an AFE duramax kit. I fabbed everything else.
It’s a lot of work, but I’ve been pleased with the payoff and performance. There were some long grades in Utah and Nevada where the system showed it’s worth and performed very well.
Today, SEMA.
David
SEMA is a blast. Sensory overload with all the eye candy. I've been twice, 5 years ago and in 95. It's mind boggling how much bigger it is. I think I walked between 7-9 miles a day inside during the show.
Have fun David!
Have fun David!
SEMA was a singular experience. So many contacts made, and ideas gathered.
I’m eastbound and down, loaded up, and headed back to Texas. It’s strange, I feel I’ve been gone too long, but can’t wait to do it all again.
David
I’m eastbound and down, loaded up, and headed back to Texas. It’s strange, I feel I’ve been gone too long, but can’t wait to do it all again.
David
