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05-16-2012, 08:51 AM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Logan, Utah
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Help
Well, this is my first post and my first restoration project. I am a rookie but I love my 72 Suburban dreams so I'm going for it. I will likely ask for a lot of help along the way, seeing as I really know nothing about what I'm doing. So...first things first. Can anyone tell me about any manuals or books that will help me get started? I have a 72 body and frame, just picked up some axles and leaf springs and that is just about it...where do I start?
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05-16-2012, 08:54 AM
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Location: Ruskin Florida
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Re: Help
Welcome to the forum! You have already taken the first and best step (this forum!)
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05-16-2012, 09:32 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Southern California
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Re: Help
Welcome to the forum!
It sounds like you have a project suburban already? My advice to beginners in these trucks, is to learn how they were put together from the factory. That way you have books, internet, and people to draw information from. Once you start going in a custom direction, you are basically on your own and being that you are working on a suburban that is a daunting task with out any resources. This forum can help answer a lot, if not all of your questions with your burb. Make sure you browse the entire forum for what ever your question may be, as in engine and drive train, or electrical, or body and paint. Each of those have their own forum, and there a many people that specialize in specific things like those that hang out there. Pictures, we love pictures here! They will help you get a quicker answer to what you are asking, and they just help us get to know what you are working on so when you ask a question later some of us will have a better idea what you are working on. So, what are ya waitin' for? Post up a few of what you have now! 
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05-16-2012, 11:59 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Huntersville, NC
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Re: Help
 with what Chris said above.....also, there is a 67-72 factory Assembly manual that would be a great purchase....it's a very unorganized book, but has plenty of exploded views of how things were put togther....pickups and suburbans are in this manual....we've had some members here index it, so it is helpful to have that too...typically a $35-$40 purchase
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05-17-2012, 12:51 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: New Madison, Ohio
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Re: Help
Hey tiny68 ...
 to your new forums family and  from Ohio and  on your purchase of a really  project
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