Our "What are we going to do?" 66 Suburban Build

[chad64chevy]

burb is looking good! glad the camaro sway bar works out, and helps out with the handling!! i like the tow hitch, how much do you have in to it?? and can you give me some measurements please! i think i'll add that to my metal buying list!!

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by justcuz

Here is a picture of a promo model. The colors are not quite right in the photo. The colors are called Larkspur blue and Harbor blue. The lighter color on top is actually more of a baby blue than the robins egg it looks like.

The darker blue has a nice hue, but the light blue/turquoise isn't doing it for us. Part of the challenge is that we want to carry the silver through the interior and feel the need to tie it in on the exterior also...fortunately we'll have plenty of time to fiqure it out. Thanks for the pic!

[RockTonka]

Hey Chad, thanks! 2' of 3x3x1/4 angle (1'/side), 34" of 2 1/2x2 1/2x1/4 square, 12" of 2" id receiver tube, some scrap plate...roughly $40 or so.

[justcuz]

Originally Posted by RockTonka

The darker blue has a nice hue, but the light blue/turquoise isn't doing it for us. Part of the challenge is that we want to carry the silver through the interior and feel the need to tie it in on the exterior also...fortunately we'll have plenty of time to fiqure it out. Thanks for the pic!

I hear you, I was thinking it was softer like interior color that can be seen inside the door on the front seat. (if you can blow the picture up). I've always been a fan of 2 and 3 tone color combos from the 50' and 60's. It adds character to the vehicle that a single color cannot do.

[clemdaddy]

[QUOTE=RockTonka;5622341]We're all for it, any time/location ideas??

got an idea... our place, november 3rd 1pm afternoon. you guys get on the road in that bad burban and roll over to arkansas. head to ft. smith and turn north on 540.

its meet and greet time for us mid-south-westerners.

[RockTonka]

Man Clem, we would love too...but, are in the process of trying to move by the middle of Nov. Every weekend has been and will be spent packing our crap up and trying to clean up the old house for resale

[clemdaddy]

thats cool, you guys get your move done... and don't worry bout it, there will be plenty of ops to gather...

[piratexpress1369a]

ah that sucks that you have to put it all on hold ...i hate moving ..have you found a new place yet

[scotts62]

Are ya moving far Phil?

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

ah that sucks that you have to put it all on hold ...i hate moving ..have you found a new place yet

Originally Posted by scotts62

Are ya moving far Phil?

Yep, found a new place that's not too far and has some space for projects

Pic of the important part...

[Dinos63]

holy shhh wow!! congrats you lucky duudes!!

[piratexpress1369a]

right on that will work out get for you guys

[E911manager]

Just to let everyone know, When I heard the burb start up I nearly wet my pants... What a great sleeper.. If you pull up next to this guy then I would just wave and nod.. This is a very serious machine.. Great work across the board.. Even better when seen in person..

[piratexpress1369a]

Originally Posted by E911manager

Just to let everyone know, When I heard the burb start up I nearly wet my pants... What a great sleeper.. If you pull up next to this guy then I would just wave and nod.. This is a very serious machine.. Great work across the board.. Even better when seen in person..

so it gave you a full woody lol

[scotts62]

Very cool!

[RockTonka]

Hey ya'll, appreciate the cool comments. We're still busy with the move but will catch up when the dust settles!!

[jonzcustomshop]

might be too late for this, but could you post an under dash shot of how the notches in the firewall came out?

what did you do about the firewall pad, and did they get in the way of anything?

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by jonzcustomshop

might be too late for this, but could you post an under dash shot of how the notches in the firewall came out?

what did you do about the firewall pad, and did they get in the way of anything?

Sorry about the delay in answering, just getting back into the swing of things. We've haven't done anymore on the interior...still need to do some door sill/rocker panel/floor work on the passenger side. Here's what it looks like...

[RockTonka]

So we're pretty much moved onto the new place and getting settled down. We've put a couple thousand miles on the burb, driving it as much as we can...total blast!

Well, up until last Fri night ...cruising down the freeway with the wife and all of a sudden BAM, followed by a lot of other racket and a serious vibration

Drove a mile down the side of the freeway to an off ramp (at idle, with lots of noise)...couldn't find anything obvious there but drove it onto a trailer and got it home.

Found that the carrier pin had sheared both ends off and the loose side walked into the R&P

[RockTonka]

So...knowing that the 12B wasn't going to last in there, I picked up a D60 from a friend that had swapped it out of his rock crawler. It has been converted to big bearing 9in. axle ends with chevy discs and came with 2 sets of 35 spline Moser's. (no carrier or R&P) Thinking Trak-lok and 3.52s

A couple hours with the torch and grinder took care of the old brackets and it's ready to go to the machine shop for shortening.

I'm planning on just narrowing it to the stock 62" WMS to WMS...but how cool would it be to narrow it a bit more, tub the rear, widen the ralleys, and stick some meats in there...now would be the time

[likaroc13]

Well first off, that sucks....but now I say tub it & put some fat rubber under the rear!

[RockTonka]

So tempting...

[chad64chevy]

where would you have your ralleys widened at? i was thinking the same thing on my truck! i want to get a set of rims like you got and widen two of them to 15x12 by adding 4in. to the backspacing and get some mickeys! anyways nice place you guys got, dont have to worry about the neighbors anymore, so thats a plus!!

[96twodoor]

Very cool ,I love this build . It would look pretty mean with some big meats back there.

[RANDY COX]

I said it once awesome,awesome,awesome.......actually 3 times.....