Wiscoburban
I'm Awesome
Ive posted in here a little bit but thought I would share my Suburban with you. Not really going to build it per say but doing some slight upgrades and modifications to it. Back Story is I started off with a GMT400 with my 2000 K2500 that I built when I was in High School and well through my college years. Unfortunately I had to sell it finally because it wouldn't fit in my garage and was just rusting away in my driveway. I did find it a very good home with a guy who was going to fix the body and keep it garaged for the rest of its life. I will forever be a GMT400 fan because of that truck. The guy I "sold" it to actually more traded me his truck for mine plus some cash. He had a 2005 1500 that was not lifted so it would fit in my garage. I like the truck but it wasn't my GMT400. Now having a 2nd kid on the way and an 80lb dog to take on trips it was time to consider getting a bigger vehicle.
My wife loves the GMT400 style Suburbans so to the internet search I went!
Found this one, guy said he put a lot of recent work in to it including front end components, new gas tank and fuel pump and motor was rebuilt with 9k miles on it. I waited it out trying to find a cleaner low miles one but these are obviously not easy to find. I finally went to see this Suburban and after meeting the guy and test driving I felt confident that he wasn't lying about the work. I tried talking down the price a bit but he wouldn't budge because all the work done to it. He said if it didn't sell he was going to pull the motor to use in another car and scrap the body. I didn't want to see this beauty go to a scrapper so I bit on it.
So far I am happy with it but it does still need some work. It only has 148k on it and the trans feels good. Rust is minimal and it starts right up every time. It needed some tires to start with so I got the old worn Kelly tires off and put on some new BFG tires. The ride is amazingly different already with the better tire on it. I also took off the broken wind deflector and programmed a remote for the locks. I did the standard OC and replaced a hose on the radiator that was leaking. While I was at it I lubed up the hood latch which would open with out some help and cleaned the interior really good.
Things it still needs, well when the tank is full it leaks gas out the top until about 1/2 tank then it stops. It needs new upper BJ but not very soon they only have a tiny bit of play in them. The A/C line by the rear tire has a leak in it that I can hear so no A/C until that's fixed and the dealer that did the tires said I needed new pinion seal and transfer case output seal but I have to look more into it because the dealer was very dismissive and just said it a lot of oil leaking but when I look I don't see that. I think they just saw an older vehicle and didn't want to deal with it.
My wife loves the GMT400 style Suburbans so to the internet search I went!
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Found this one, guy said he put a lot of recent work in to it including front end components, new gas tank and fuel pump and motor was rebuilt with 9k miles on it. I waited it out trying to find a cleaner low miles one but these are obviously not easy to find. I finally went to see this Suburban and after meeting the guy and test driving I felt confident that he wasn't lying about the work. I tried talking down the price a bit but he wouldn't budge because all the work done to it. He said if it didn't sell he was going to pull the motor to use in another car and scrap the body. I didn't want to see this beauty go to a scrapper so I bit on it.
So far I am happy with it but it does still need some work. It only has 148k on it and the trans feels good. Rust is minimal and it starts right up every time. It needed some tires to start with so I got the old worn Kelly tires off and put on some new BFG tires. The ride is amazingly different already with the better tire on it. I also took off the broken wind deflector and programmed a remote for the locks. I did the standard OC and replaced a hose on the radiator that was leaking. While I was at it I lubed up the hood latch which would open with out some help and cleaned the interior really good.
Things it still needs, well when the tank is full it leaks gas out the top until about 1/2 tank then it stops. It needs new upper BJ but not very soon they only have a tiny bit of play in them. The A/C line by the rear tire has a leak in it that I can hear so no A/C until that's fixed and the dealer that did the tires said I needed new pinion seal and transfer case output seal but I have to look more into it because the dealer was very dismissive and just said it a lot of oil leaking but when I look I don't see that. I think they just saw an older vehicle and didn't want to deal with it.
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