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

[RockTonka]

Good meeting you too Chad, we're going to have to arrange a meet & greet or something so we can put more faces to names around here...

[RockTonka]

We're still working down that list, but have crossed a few things off.

My son cleaned/painted the old hinges and the underside the hood before setting it back on with some new (shiny ) springs.

Also test fit some kicker panel covers with speakers in them...gonna take a little bit of trimming to fit perfect but pretty close.

We also finished running the brake lines, braided lines from master down to hard lines at the frame

[RockTonka]

I pulled the rad hold down, support wings, and hood latch off a couple weeks ago to have them ceramic powder coated...I wanted to try and match them to the headers. They aren't quite as shiny as I would have liked, but do have the basic "aluminum" look I wanted.

[padresag]

my feeling about all those holes is that it makes it to busy in there. it over powers what else is there. just scroll the page down until it blocks it out the rad part. it defines the rest of the eng department more readily . that is just my opinion, it is your truck.
I think that it looked good in the crossmember work that your son did on his truck.
ron

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by padresag

my feeling about all those holes is that it makes it to busy in there. it over powers what else is there. just scroll the page down until it blocks it out the rad part. it defines the rest of the eng department more readily . that is just my opinion, it is your truck.
I think that it looked good in the crossmember work that your son did on his truck.
ron

Yea, we get a little dimple happy at times

We thought twice before starting to pop holes but knew we had extra wings and could easily swap them out if we didn't like them. The bumper is in less than perfect shape, so once again, not much to lose by playing around...plus we wanted airflow to the tranny cooler behind it.

But, all in all, we like the dimpled holes

[RockTonka]

Had a busy week trying to get the burb driveable for a scheduled exhaust appointment sat. morning.

First was getting at least the drivers seat in, so bent some tube up, and after a bit of cutting, grinding, and welding had a basic mount for the drivers side...dropped a set of sliders on and bolted it down.

We also temporarily set a old B&M shifter down until we fiqure some sort of center console out...works well enough for the time being.

[RockTonka]

Sat. morning we had a couple FM 50s welded in with a crossover (2" crossover, 2 1/2" on the rest) and dumping in front of the rear through some 3 1/2" SS tips...sounds really nice!!

[clemdaddy]

Originally Posted by RockTonka

Good meeting you too Chad, we're going to have to arrange a meet & greet or something so we can put more faces to names around here...

sounds like a great idea... make it happen???
lots of us live close enough to join in and the weather is much more agreeable.

[RockTonka]

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

sounds like a great idea... make it happen???
lots of us live close enough to join in and the weather is much more agreeable.

We're all for it, any time/location ideas??


We had an excessive engine vibration and after a bit more research, fiqured out that we had the wrong flexplate...turns out the flexplates for the Gen 6 blocks are specific down to cast or forged cranks .

We had Jeg's send the correct flexplate (a Hay's unit) and borrowed a friends lift to swap it in Fri. night...since we were feeling spoiled being able to stand under the burb to work, we went ahead and replaced all the rear brake lines and rear wheel cylinders (couldn't get a good bleed before).

The boy got a chance to cruise around a bit Sunday after dropping a Sunpro tach on the dash, but we're struggling with a tempermental electric fuel pump set-up...likes to get hot and shut down. We're researching in-tank options now.

[RockTonka]

We pulled an all-nighter Fri. and into Sat. and got a few things done.

My boy came in early Fri.and chased down a rear swaybar off a junk yard 84 Camaro...brackets, bar, and all for $25. Earlier last week I bought a Boyd's tank from nomrlz here on the board, that and a by-pass regulator made it in Fri also We also picked up a bit of metal to make a rear hitch...

So we had the burb up on the lift by 7 pm Fri night and pulled it off Sat about the same time...

[RockTonka]

Pics of hitch...

[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...