mybigwarwagon
Rarely serious
I am not much on expeditions - unless you count work an expedition. I have done lots of looking at the builds here for ideas, and motivation for this truck. Back in 2000 I built another work Suburban but at the time I didn't do much online, so here is the newest one. I am copying the first several posts from another forum, but I figured I could make you fine people suffer along with me too.
(Warning; the following post is most likely rambling and incoherent and you will have a hard time finding a subject at times. Bear with me, it will be a total waste of time.)
I know, I know, 99% of you have no idea who I am. That is ok. My wife has the same problem sometimes. I am not new, I am a long time lurker, and sometimes commenter on things that capture my short attention span. So here is a little intro.
I am 49 years old, have 4 kids, one one the way, and enjoy long drinks of whisky in whatever dark corner happens to be quiet. Back in 2000 I was innocently driving my 82 Subaru GL in Charlotte, when a Chrysler LHS came through the median airborne and landed on the roof. It messed up my back, and whole left side, as you can imagine it was pretty life changing. I can work for 8 days straight, then have to take a week off for pain. Makes it hard to hold a regular job. So I hired myself. I had a truck, so I started hauling junk. And fast forward 19 years, and I am still hauling it.
After using a pickup for many years, I found a neat little loophole in NC DMV regulations. A suv is not considered a property hauling vehicle, and is thus exempt from requiring weighted tags. They are also great at hauling people, tools, and dogs.
So I settled on a Suburban for a work truck. I have had several and they have worked great, As you can imaging scrap hauling is not so easy on a truck. For a little over a year I have had a 97 Suburban that has been no end of trouble.
When it ran it was great
We took it to Tn to get a Yukon to bring back to flip, and this is how the trip ended.
It started knocking, and I thought was a cracked flexplate, with a bad back I wasn't working on it in TN, so I sold the Yukon, bought the F250 , and towed it home, and took it to the shop. When they drained the oil the #4 rod bearing poured out. That is the second engine that truck has had in a year, I am done with it.
So I found a new truck, a 95 K1500 Suburban nicknamed #7 (think Grizzly Adams). And I am making it into a work truck. Follow along. It might be good for a laugh.
Here it is the day I bought it.
Ain't those grandpa steps sexy.
The drivers seat also had a broken base that made it flop around. We stopped at Harbor Freight to get soem stuff to attempt a temporary repair and had no luck with that. I had resigned myself to a 200 mile drive home in a rocking chair, when the 7 year old said, "I'll fix it'" and folded the rear seat down against it. I felt pretty dumb and proud all at once.
Well, the steps didn't last long.
I have also put on a set of 2000 style tow mirrors, changed out the broken front seat for ones out of the dead truck (they are blue and the other interior is tan, but at least I won't get seasick). It also got the nice tail lights off the other truck.
(Warning; the following post is most likely rambling and incoherent and you will have a hard time finding a subject at times. Bear with me, it will be a total waste of time.)
I know, I know, 99% of you have no idea who I am. That is ok. My wife has the same problem sometimes. I am not new, I am a long time lurker, and sometimes commenter on things that capture my short attention span. So here is a little intro.
I am 49 years old, have 4 kids, one one the way, and enjoy long drinks of whisky in whatever dark corner happens to be quiet. Back in 2000 I was innocently driving my 82 Subaru GL in Charlotte, when a Chrysler LHS came through the median airborne and landed on the roof. It messed up my back, and whole left side, as you can imagine it was pretty life changing. I can work for 8 days straight, then have to take a week off for pain. Makes it hard to hold a regular job. So I hired myself. I had a truck, so I started hauling junk. And fast forward 19 years, and I am still hauling it.
After using a pickup for many years, I found a neat little loophole in NC DMV regulations. A suv is not considered a property hauling vehicle, and is thus exempt from requiring weighted tags. They are also great at hauling people, tools, and dogs.
So I settled on a Suburban for a work truck. I have had several and they have worked great, As you can imaging scrap hauling is not so easy on a truck. For a little over a year I have had a 97 Suburban that has been no end of trouble.
When it ran it was great
We took it to Tn to get a Yukon to bring back to flip, and this is how the trip ended.
It started knocking, and I thought was a cracked flexplate, with a bad back I wasn't working on it in TN, so I sold the Yukon, bought the F250 , and towed it home, and took it to the shop. When they drained the oil the #4 rod bearing poured out. That is the second engine that truck has had in a year, I am done with it.
So I found a new truck, a 95 K1500 Suburban nicknamed #7 (think Grizzly Adams). And I am making it into a work truck. Follow along. It might be good for a laugh.
Here it is the day I bought it.
Ain't those grandpa steps sexy.
The drivers seat also had a broken base that made it flop around. We stopped at Harbor Freight to get soem stuff to attempt a temporary repair and had no luck with that. I had resigned myself to a 200 mile drive home in a rocking chair, when the 7 year old said, "I'll fix it'" and folded the rear seat down against it. I felt pretty dumb and proud all at once.
Well, the steps didn't last long.
I have also put on a set of 2000 style tow mirrors, changed out the broken front seat for ones out of the dead truck (they are blue and the other interior is tan, but at least I won't get seasick). It also got the nice tail lights off the other truck.