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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Really digging on your firewall, I definitely have to go back and tweak on Steiner.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Dale, those louvers are pretty special. I'm sure you'll use them in a creative way. Sorry for hijacking your thread.
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Wow cool! those will really set the burb apart from any other vehicles ever built. It's details like this that really make it special
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That's awesome
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Thanks Pirate. Yesterday we finished the firewall welding. Then today we welded the crossmember brackets and drilled the holes in the crossmember.
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That should hold the trans in place! Fire wall turned out really nice.
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Built for stout, I see no flex in your future.
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Hopefully the frame is stiff enough since the body is welded to the frame. We worked on two projects today First was the mounts for the front shockwaves. We got the bottom mounts installed. Then we made some brackets for the top and tacked them in place.
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The second project is one I saw on another build but I can't remember who deserves the credit. If anybody knows the thread please post it here.
We decided to add an 1 1/2 inch strip to the rear bumper. So we cut the bumper length wise and made up some brackets to clamp it in position
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I am in awe of the fab skills going on in this thread. This thing will be more solid than anything on the road by the time you're done. I probably missed it, but what powerplant do you have in store for this?
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Nice work!
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Oh ya I forgot how the drive system worked.
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Thanks Roushinator. Ya they are a bit different. We test fit the shockwave today to check for clearance. Then we boxed the mount top and bottom.
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We also made some brackets to mount the factory crossmember angle braces. Then we welded them to the inside of the frame.
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Very nice work Dale, how low do you think it will sit aired all the way out?
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Today we dropped the air tank and compressors in the space above the gas tank. Then we decided to mount the rear upper gate. So we cut it in half and got one side in position.
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Looking good Dale. Firewall came out great! I guess both gates will need to be sectioned and reassembled to fit...
Any idea how much welding wire you've used so far? Man... you've done so much work. Keep it up! ![]()
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Very nice work Dale. I guess the plus side of sectioning a suburban gate instead of a truck gate is that there is no letters to worry about.
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Coming along very nice Dale. John I used around 25lb of .035 on mine so I'm thinking Dale has used more. But cool question no one ever thinks of.
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On the welding wire question . Thats kind of hard to say cause we use 3 diferent spools of wire in the mig welder plus the tig welder but I would guess we've used about 15 lbs so far. We got both halves of the upper gate mounted so we could measure the gap between them. Then we cut a filler piece from another gate and tacked it to one side. Next we used some 1" square tubing and a bunch of clamps to line up the two halves.
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Nice work!
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Dale your doing a great job with everything it's like you are installing a kit. Mark line A at --", mark line B at --", clamp together and tack. Keep it up!!
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Your updates do always make me smile.
Looking good man.
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Thanks Rian I'm glad we can brighten your day. After tacking the strip in the center we decided to remove 2.5" from the height So we did some more cutting fitting and tacking.
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