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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Geez, looking through this thread it looks as though I haven't updated it in a very long time. Here is a link to the 2016 Desert Trip trip report that the Polar Bear and K10 took in June 2016. Link HERE to the trip report.
And a few recent out and about pics. We took the ole Polar Bear on a family camping weekend to a lake about 3 hours away a couple weeks after returning from the Desert. Fun times. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
What do you have going on with the mirrors? They look interesting.
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Just cheap clip on mirror extensions. They suck and don't fit worth the hoot
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Are you familiar with the tow mirrors that exist in the style of the stainless mirrors? They have a lock ring with set screw at the mirror head that you loosen, extend mirror, and tighten up?
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Hmmm, not sure. I may have saw them while searching for something when I ended up with these. Link? Pic?
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
I too have questions Larry. haha. A friend and I are interested in installing the stepntow bumpers on our Suburbans. You mentioned earlier in the thread you had to fab up brackets, any details on those?
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
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I don’t know if I would trust step bumper or these brackets for towing, as mine has a receiver hitch below the bumper for towing. Also reworked the original brackets that support outside corners of the bumper to work with the step bumper as well. The brackets are not pretty but they are just temporary until I can have a nice bumper build for it like what is on the K10. ![]()
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Well I mean that'll work, not towing with the bumper just going for the look, and need new bumpers anyhow. My friend was running a front bumper on the rear haha
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Where can we find those mirrors. I WANT SOME!
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
More pics of a NOS set...part number shown. Good luck. Those are a friend of mine's pics, he was shopping for the GMT-400 set (pictured above) and ended up with square body ones. Sold them long ago. For reference the GMT-400 set is P/N 95155.
The heads on them were stainless as well, like original. THESE: http://bumpersuperstore.com/i-114088...ng-mirror.html are the only ones I see yet for sale by the part number. I'm half tempted to believe they're using a stock photo of the slip on garbage ones. Their title/description says slide-out door mount, not slip-on poop.
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
That is interesting! Bummer too as I just bought new mirrors for the Burb not long ago. Snagged one backing out of the garage and busted it to smithereens. Looks like another 7 years of bad luck coming my way
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
I had the passenger side mirror pane fall out of the housing of my '83 as I was driving down the highway. Caught a glint out of the corner of my eye then sparkly things in the rearview, started looking around wondering what in the world just happened.
Larry, if you get a minute I would appreciate your 8.1 input: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=721338
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![]() The original mirror that came on the bear were pretty delaminated so I had G-van mirrors on it, which are identical except the tube had a slightly different bend. The G-van mirror is the one that got broke so I ordered a pair of aftermarket ones from Fleebay with low expectations. Oh, man! What junk they were just to my suspicion. The bases were so flimsy the mirrors giggled everywhere when shutting the doors. I ended up just taking the new mirror portion off and installing them on the original Suburban tubes and bases. Quality parts are hard to find these days. Friggen Taiwan and China are going to kill us all sooner or later. I’ll take a look at that thread. Sorry, I don’t get here much unless someone whistles at me by pushing a subscribed thread to the top This is what G-van mirrors look like on a square. ![]()
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
great build. i really liked what you did with the rust and paint. nice truck too! reminds me of my 81 i used to have.
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
I have a 3 GM used sets of mirrors if you want a set of OEM ones. They aren't "show" truck quality but good driver quality.
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Hey DirtyLarry I nominated your suburban in February totm contest.
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Sweet! Thank you!
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Larry, I had a question about what you used for the fuel lines in this truck with the 8.1L. If I remember correctly, I read somewhere else that you used the factory TBI lines up to the fuel filter, and then ran something else to connect up to the 8.1L fuel rail. Do you have a parts list or description of how you tied in the 8.1L fuel rail with the TBI lines in your suburban?
I'm getting the parts together to swap in an '04 C5500 8.1L into my '86 454 C20 Suburban. I'm planning to snag the fuel tank pickup and lines from a TBI squarebody suburban, and need to figure out a clean way to hook them up to the pressure and return ports on the 8.1L. I'd love to know how you did yours.
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Man I like that big mud tire stock wheel hubcap setup..that's sweet
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
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Fuel lines... Return: W0000540 Supply: W0000539 Those lines can be purchased from any Workhorse dealer as they are a Workhorse exclusive, not a common GM part
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
Thanks for the info, Larry. I thought there might be a plug and play solution, but I'm sure I can come up with something. I might try to find those workhorse parts, or come up with something else. I'll have to do some more looking into it.
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Re: Polar Bear Suburban
http://workhorse.navistar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=197
The state lookup feature is broken, but if you put in your zip code it should bring up a dealer near you or at least in your state. Keep in mind since the product got axed in 2010 dealers have been dropping off as the warranty work is done. The only thing left is a small amount of repair work and parts ordering. I work at a dealer that still has access to Workhorse parts so if nobody local to you is still doing it we can order, you'll just have to deal with the shipping charges.
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