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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Very nice work on the bumper modification. What did you use to make the cuts? They look very straight.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Dale the work you have done to the Burb is amazing. I thought putting a truck roof was difficult on my Suburban and you have gone and changed most of the panels in some way.
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While we're waiting for a different sway bar to arrive we decided to continue with the front of the frame. We tacked some pieces together and set them in position. We'll make the other side and TIG weld them tomorrow. We also finished off the welding on the bumper.
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Nice work as usual Dale, are you planning on getting the bumper chromed or just painting it?
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Re: My suburban's Twisted Little Sister
Bumper turned out nice. Is the front frame sitting at ride hight?
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We got the second front frame section built and TIG welded them both. We'll have to get them square and parallel to each other and then weld them to the frame. We also dug out a rad saddle that has the usual rust in the bottom corners.
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Now that is interesting.. Like the way you are going
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With your metal working skills this will be eazy~peezy.
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Thanks Pirate. Thanks Bomp. It's all just cutting and welding. We spent most of the afternoon trying to center the front wheel. We decided that moving the fender forward 6 5/8" was about right. So we cut the back off a couple of old fenders. Next we'll clamp them in place and start welding.
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Wow you guys rock!!
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Those fender extensions are gonna look great
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Yup what they said
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Love it
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Thanks Lower. We 're trying our best.
Thanks Nik Should be interesting when we get all the pieces welded together. Thanks Ian. I'm glad you're enjoying it Thanks Pirate. I'm glad you're enjoying it too. We got one of the fender extensions on. It turned out pretty good. We also fixed the panel alignment issues where the fenders meet the grille surround.
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Bravo, Nice, clean and straight. Perfect.
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Bravo to the metal magician!
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Very Very Impressive.
I guess a bit of practice does help. That looks like a no filler join.
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Thanks Bomp. I'm quite happy with the way it turned out.
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We finished welding the second fender extension. Then we started making some brackets to mount the front sheetmetal. First two brackets with slots to mount the rad cradle. Then a bracket to weld to the inside of the fender and one to weld to the frame to attach the fender.
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Love the creativity. The fender came out looking good!
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Thanks Doug
We spent some time mounting brackets. We tacked the rad cradle brackets to the frame. Then we tacked the lower fender bracket to the frame but the placement was off so we'll have to try again later. We also started fixing the rust on the fender tops (hood sides )
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We got the fender mounting brackets tacked in place and bolted the fenders on. We also finished one of the patches on fender tops and set it in position.
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Looking good
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I continue to see a Hotwheels special edition with the lines you have created here Dale.
Looking good team.
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Will the hood hinges be able to take the weight of the added Steel
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Just a small update since we've been doing a bunch of welding. We did make a 27" plywood wheel to figure out back spacing and clearance.
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