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

[piratexpress1369a]

shop is looking great

[Captainfab]

Is that your Jeep?

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

shop is looking great

Thanks, we've about got it whipped into shape.

Originally Posted by Captainfab

Is that your Jeep?

Yep, been working on that for near 20 yrs now...

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by Captainfab

Is that your Jeep?

Few pics of the jeep and what its good for...

[Captainfab]

Wow nice

Ram Jet 502?

My son got his buggy going earlier this year and has been working on getting the bugs out.

[RockTonka]

Thanks Cap!

Very clean buggy, that looks great! Y'all need to bring that down to our neck of the woods!

Started with a HO502 (iron rectangular port heads), worked the heads, custom cam/computer/tune, port matched the Ram Jet intake to the heads, worked the throttle body a bit, and swapped in some higher flow injectors...had Mena Street and Performance do all the intake/TB/Comp/tune work...it runs extremely well

[chad64chevy]

the new place is looking great, I've have to stop by again after the new yr! we're moving to Tulsa with are income tax! nice jeep didn't see it the last time I seen you guys! I still love those rear tires, i'm working on getting mine done! I hope by summer i'll have everything worked out

[RockTonka]

Hey Chad, good to hear from ya. I didn't have room at the old place for the jeep...kept it at a buddies house. I've taken it all over Cavanaugh...good times! Tulsa will be nice, we lived there for 4 yrs. The engine in yours looks great, really like the color combo/details!!

[earl84]

Wow, just awesome work all around. I have been on this board for a couple years and never looked at this build, my loss. Just read all of it. Great work, great ideas, great family build. Loved it!

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by justcuz

Just noticed the nice rocking chairs and your stand up heater in the shop. What type of ventilation do you have in the roof of the shop? That heater could cause you guys some trouble if not well vented. The board lost a fellow in San Diego County last year to carbon monoxide poisoning, stay safe guys! You contribute way to much to the board to have anything bad happen to you.

We're ventilated (and cautious)...thanks for looking out for us!

Originally Posted by earl84

Wow, just awesome work all around. I have been on this board for a couple years and never looked at this build, my loss. Just read all of it. Great work, great ideas, great family build. Loved it!

Thanks earl84! It means alot to us to hear that others enjoy what we're doing!!

[RockTonka]

Been gathering parts for a few weeks...my boy and I started swapping parts earlier this evening...gonna see how far we can get over the weekend!

[piratexpress1369a]

that loks like a busy weekend with a great return

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

that loks like a busy weekend with a great return

More like a busy weekend with a poor return...

We swapped out the Pro Comp HEI dist (get what you pay for) in favor of a MSD dist/coil/box set-up chasing a dead #2 cylinder...it wasn't the ignition!

Dug a little deeper and found the problem...we think that it's been this way for a little while. Ran pretty good with no noise that we could recognize for longer than we care to admit!!! There may have or have not been a time (or two) that we over revved it goofing around
We're thinking that the 2" or so piece of broke off push rod found its way to the pan with out causing to much damage...nothing obvious visually, by ear, or gauges??
Gonna drop a couple new push rods and a rocker on tomorrow and see what happens

[jbclassix]

X2 on the Pro Comp distributors. Garbage.

[mud.man.rj]

Good old stock rocker arms, never use them, can't be trusted for abuse and I abuse everytime I drive. Looks like good pushrods, well were.

[piratexpress1369a]

ouch that sucks ..could thing you found it now without blowing a hole in the block

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by jbclassix

X2 on the Pro Comp distributors. Garbage.

Yea, I've always been suspicious of them...this one, I guess, is alright. What we've got now is much better...good upgrade.

Originally Posted by mud.man.rj

Good old stock rocker arms, never use them, can't be trusted for abuse and I abuse everytime I drive. Looks like good pushrods, well were.

Well, we were going to just drop a new rocker and couple push rods in (went and picked everything up), but after thinking about it for a bit we decided to pull all the stock rockers off and upgrade to roller rockers and 3/8 push rods. Gonna chase those down tomorrow.

Originally Posted by piratexpress1369a

ouch that sucks ..could thing you found it now without blowing a hole in the block

Yea, got lucky (so far) with this little deal.

[mud.man.rj]

Let us know how the big block works out, hope all is well, sounds like it will be.

[Captainfab]

Good idea. I always upgrade to 3/8 pushrods on a performance big block.

[mud.man.rj]

All big blocks are 3/8's pushrods, just crappy ones, you upgrade to 7/16's rods. but takes some work.

[piratexpress1369a]

wow that is a quick fix.got my fingers crossed for a good start up

[RockTonka]

Got it up and running again. MSD Ignition, roller rockers, and all 8 cylinders running made a pretty big difference!! Damnedest thing!!

[earl84]

Dang, you guys don't screw around, do you? Glad you have all 8 cylinders working for you now.

[piratexpress1369a]

great job on getting it running again

[mud.man.rj]

Ya, congrat's on getting it up and running again, glad it worked out, any spare video on it running, looks so pretty under that hood, oops no hood, engine bay then.