Tyce Ferwerda
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I'm cool with a bit wider if I can use the slider. Great info! I'm guessing this applies to 8 lug as well? I want a 3/4+ set up.2wd rear axles are narrower by a couple of inches. Doesn't help him up front though.
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I'm cool with a bit wider if I can use the slider. Great info! I'm guessing this applies to 8 lug as well? I want a 3/4+ set up.2wd rear axles are narrower by a couple of inches. Doesn't help him up front though.
In Wikipedia it specifically says that the 92-94 suburbans...
"Width 73.6 in (1,869 mm) (1992–94 Chevrolet) – 77.0 in (1,956 mm) (1995–96 GMC)"
I'm cool with a bit wider if I can use the slider. Great info! I'm guessing this applies to 8 lug as well? I want a 3/4+ set up.
I don't think so, 8 lug SF and FF should remain width the same whether in 2wd or 4wd configs. I think the 2wd 1500s only have a varying width because 2wd is a 10 bolt and 4wd should be the 14 bolt SF. This will also vary on engine choices too as I believe the BBC and diesel are always 14 bolt FF (although the BBC isn't available on 1500s AFAIK). Please correct me if I am wrong, but this is my understanding.I'm cool with a bit wider if I can use the slider. Great info! I'm guessing this applies to 8 lug as well? I want a 3/4+ set up.
I knowGiven that they are the same, I can only assume that the Chevy was measured from wheel to wheel, while the GMC may have been measured from something like wheel flares, side mirrors, side steps, etc.
Cool! Great info! People have said with the size of the rig that going 8 lug with 4L80 trans is a better combo vs 6lug. Any opinion on this? 6lug is much more commonI don't think so, 8 lug SF and FF should remain width the same whether in 2wd or 4wd configs. I think the 2wd 1500s only have a varying width because 2wd is a 10 bolt and 4wd should be the 14 bolt SF. This will also vary on engine choices too as I believe the BBC and diesel are always 14 bolt FF (although the BBC isn't available on 1500s AFAIK). Please correct me if I am wrong, but this is my understanding.
I don't think so, 8 lug SF and FF should remain width the same whether in 2wd or 4wd configs. I think the 2wd 1500s only have a varying width because 2wd is a 10 bolt and 4wd should be the 14 bolt SF. This will also vary on engine choices too as I believe the BBC and diesel are always 14 bolt FF (although the BBC isn't available on 1500s AFAIK). Please correct me if I am wrong, but this is my understanding.
I measured a mid 90's 4x4 truck today. Roughly 76" wide in front. I have yet to measure an 8lug suburban. The wheel arch on the VW is 72" outside lip to outside lip. 6lug's seem to be, regardless of year right close to 74" so one inch each side which is not bad. Plus I can screw around with wheel offset...I may just have to go 6lug and put a 4L80 in it.8-lug 4wd trucks are quite wide in the front. I think wider than the 6-lug 4wd trucks. I don't think those vans are very wide... I think you're going to have your wheels on the outside of the body.
Often times widths are wheel mounting surface to wheel mounting surface. I don't know what you're looking at, but it might not be what you think it is.
Sounds good. I Just looked at a Tahoe and it looks like I can cut 22" our of the low center part of the frame and put it under a stock length Vanagon. Truck frame won't work. Torsion bars too long. Bed platform too long. I'm jazzed. For the Tahoe system. Have a shorty for off-road and long one...just because.You can still have the 14 bolt 6 lug in a half ton, so that and your 4L80 are probably the 2 items you were after anyway, right? Just hydroboost that setup and I think it'll meet your needs.