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One more straggler of the sway bar end.

Marc

Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
 

Marc that's a good idea on the fender lip..will you seal the hammered down gap with sealer or something to keep dirt and water from getting in it and staying?

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I plan to bedline the backside of the fenders so I will make sure to brush some behind the flange.The fenders are in great shape. Water will run out and down from behind there. I'm not too concerned about it.

Marc

Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
 

Great.. its looking good and coming along quickly..Is that Doug I see behind you in your dust? Haha

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Thanks...No Doug has been quiet but my guess is he's making progress.

Marc

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Haha..yeah I think he's hiding in the bushes

Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
 

looks good. for extra support you could even weld a steel strap inside the fender. tuff decision on the sway bar. I'd say just modify it and save everyone some shipping! don't feel bad, I measure wrong all the time!

Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
 

Yeah I'm not too concerned about fender support. It still has a lot even with the brace removed. I will probably see if a shop close by with a tubing bender can just bend each side in slightly (.25"). The front sheet metal was in place making it tougher to measure so I ended up being off. Sometimes having another set of hands in the garage is a must.

Marc

Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
 

$260 to shorten the axle housing and axles is a great deal. It's always about $200 per side for me. Your fender lip turned out nice.

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Yes, I called around and it was cheaper than anyone plus I can reuse my stock axles. The best part is Moser will do all this work and let me wait for them for same day service since I'm driving 3 hrs one way. I decided the take Friday off from work to make the road trip. Thanks

Marc

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I have been focused on getting the rear end shortened and then rebuilt with new brakes...The backing plates were rusted bad so I purchase new ones. While I had the axles out I removed the brackets that hold the backing plates to clean them up by sandblasting them and primering them then repainting them...You might notice that I also cut off the parking break bracket in an effort to clean the design of them up since I wont be running a parking brake.

I also added more support for my floor structure and then I recut my factory wood to get an idea of how the wood floor will fit.

This is the rear housing that will be getting shortened on Friday.

Marc

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I also picked up these Rotors off of Ebay. These are only drill (not slotted) so that they match my 13" rotors up front. I'm anal like that. These are stock ZR2 rotors. New calipers will show up tomorrow.

The soon to be narrowed 10 bolt ZR2 housing.

Marc

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Great service of Moser to let you wait on the job!
Mostly it's out of the question with such large jobs...

Parts looking good!

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Yes Kees they have been great from a customer service standpoint that's why I wanted to give them a shout out. I will need to be out of the house by 5:30 am to make it there on time. Something tells me even though it's a work day I will spring right out of bed. Funny how that works.

Marc

Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
 

You're not going to have ANY kind of parking brake? Isn't that illegal? Just curious, not judging.

All your work looks clean and well thought out, as usual.

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Not here in Michigan. If I added one it would not be the factory one anyway. My 48 is also an automatic and I don't run a parking brake. When I get my NSRA safety inspection each year I don't get the 22 point pass beacuase of a lack of parking brake ( and lack of a fire extinguisher which I need to do something about) but that is the only thing that I have been effected by for not going with a parking brake.

Thanks
Marc

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Good going Marc...hard for me to see though because of all the dust!

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Thanks Doug...I'm sure you are making your own progress.

Marc

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That's cool you don't need a P brake, 99% of automatics aren't used anyways.
Found this on FB yesterday.
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Nice progress Marc....

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Thanks for the pic. Jim pointed it out to me yesterday. The funny thing is that picture was just before it was road worthy. One of my favorite pics and one of the older ones.

Thanks Bryce

Marc

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Hey Marc, tomorrows the big day, will be waiting for pics, etc...Jim

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You know it...I'm excited to get it chopped down so I can finalize the rear suspension/wheel tub part of this build.

Thanks
Marc

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It would be cool to see pics of their process for narrowing the rear. Hopefully they will let you. Have fun tomorrow!

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Funny you ask that because I thought for certain it was a legal thing too when I was doing my rear end build with the Wilwood products. I aksed them and they told me that parking brakes are not part of any vehicle code of any state. Well being from California and knowing that we do everything WRONG... I checked with one of my CHP buddys and he said nope its not part of a vehicle inspection standard that they perform. I went with no PB either on my rig.

The 'Panel' is looking great Marc