Nearing completion

[magicoolbus]

Originally Posted by 1leglance

Howdy JB,
As soon as you are ready to go play in the dirt there are a a couple of Phoenix area Burbs (me and Mosesburb) who are always happy to have another traveler along.
Tons of killer local trails, great weekend getaways and more history than most folks realize.
Very nice job on your build also.

Great news. Looking forward to some outings.

[1leglance]

Send me a pm when you are ready to shake her down, some great local day trips that are not rough yet have cool stuff to see.

[magicoolbus]

will do.

[magicoolbus]

I finally got my seat covers in this weekend. Got the front and rear done and installed. Still need to work a few wrinkles out, but pretty happy with the results. Glad I don't do upholstery for a living, it is a ton of work and my hands are very tired from squeezing hog rings and stretching fabric. Will take a few days off and finish the middle seat.

[Ol Blue K20]

Looks great!

[LockDoc]

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That is looking great. The light at the end of the tunnel.....

LockDoc

[sbrban]

looks good! It's gotta be hard to sleep at night when your this close to being finished!

[magicoolbus]

Hey Burbdom,
I have been finalizing a front bumper project for my suburban. I painted it last night, installed it tonight and mounted winch and wired it up. Works like a champ. Didn't use any plans per say, but did use ideas from a lot of different bumper pictures. I didn't like the tube style winch bumpers and wanted something somewhat heavy duty.

The winch cradle is 1/4 inch and the rest is 3/16 plate. I used my tubing roller to make a hoop of sorts out of 1 1/2 120 dom. The tubing braces made of the same. For the shackle mount, my plasma cutter isn't up to cutting 1" plate and can barely do 1/2, so I used 1/4 plate stacked 'em up and welded them together and ground the sides smooth. Took a bit, but came out better than expected. Still need to mount the flush mount LED flood lights. Paint is semi gloss black single stage urethane.

[Bigdav160]

I really like the bumper. I think I'm going to build something similar one day.

[GU3]

Looks awesome. You've done a great job. Ive considered doing a similar bumper with a winch.

I'm in Mesa too so let me know if want to hit a local trail or two once you get her on the road. I don't get out as much as I'd like to.

[pwdcougar]

Wow! Your Burb looks amazing!

Paul

[magicoolbus]

Thanks for the kind words, going to work on headliner this weekend.

[CG]

Get it finished?

[magicoolbus]

I have the headliner in, but I really don't like it. Doesn't sit quite right. Gonna go with it for now and see if it grows on me. I used the patterns that are available on the forum and used Fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP).

[Alex V.]

Sweet rig! Very well done.

[Average Joe]

Originally Posted by Alex V.

Sweet rig! Very well done.

^ What he said!

[magicoolbus]

Thanks for the kind words. I posted in the "what did you do to your Suburban today" thread a couple of pics of my Slidebar radio install. I must say that it works amazeballs and I couldn't be happier with it. It has the Bluetooth hands free interface and has the ability to use an aux cord, 20 pin iPod/iPhone, and a USB. I can also use the Bluetooth to stream Pandora from my smartypants phone. I also installed the custom autosound kickpanel speakers with the pioneer speaker upgrade. Also have 2 matched speakers in the back installed in the rear a/c unit.



Slidebar closed to reveal 'stock' am/fm delco look



Slidebar open showing digital read out. Can choose 5 different colors.



Front right kickpanel, painted black abs to match interior door panels.



Nice long cord for 20 pin iPod. Can control iPod from head unit--it is a bit tricky, just need to remember the order of pushing and twisting the knobs. I believe with an adapter I can go right into a iPhone 5 or 6. Dig my SPID!



This is the button that you press to answer calls through the hands free device. I mounted the microphone up through the a pillar weatherstrip and it is hooked onto the sun visor. Works very well at highway speeds, frankly better than my wife's late model Tahoe.

[LuckyScott]

Looks great. Would like to see some more photos of the interior

[3drburb]

That is a beautiful rig. Great job.

[Hart_Rod]

Updates?