Today I drove over to Honeoye Falls (just south of Rochester) to pick up a set of used, but complete and original rear quarters. The passenger side quarter has some ripples in it, a tiny bit of surface rust, and is a bit messed up at the front where it attaches to the B-pillar, but [...]
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Disassembly Started…
Jason (my cousin) and I were able to get a good start on tearing down the ‘burb tonight. We started by removing the doors. The “barn door” style rear doors were a cinch to remove only requiring the impact wrench. The rear doors on the sides were also quite easy requiring some trim to be [...]
$250 Later
So $250 later and the Suburban is sitting in the shop! No real excitement in picking it up. Just drove it up onto the flatbed and chained it down. The ride back down off of the flatbed was interesting though. It was raining outside which left the bed of the trailer quite slick. The practically [...]
Donor Suburban…
So I now have the opportunity to pick up a 2wd 1990 Suburban. It is currently drivable, however, the body is rotted quite bad in the back. So much so that in order for the previous owners to utilize the back door, they had cut the top of the bumper off to provide clearance. Clearance [...]
Headers Installed – Exhaust…
So after determining that the old Hooker headers from my Chevelle would not fit the K5 properly, I ordered a set of Hooker Competition headers. These are made to work with the Hooker Competition dual exhaust system which I also ordered. The headers fit very well, however, the mandrel bent exhaust system did not fit [...]