Build No budget 1990 GMC Suburban

Got in late and fell asleep so you get them today.


Pic of springs, only really got them basically flat:

Also, pics of cobbled together reinforcement of rear of body/top so I could shut the damn rear doors properly:

Yes, that’s the ground through the spare tire well
#saltlife

Update: blew up the rear axle. Well, the oldest boy did. Last fall, at an invite only truck and tractor pull a friend and I put on. My son had it on the sled for the umpteenth time and it quit moving in 2wd

Anyway, finally got around to fixing it. I figured it was blown spider gears.
It was.
Oops.

Was there hopping involved?

Levigarrett76 said:

Was there hopping involved?

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No, surprisingly.


These are the dents made by the exiting pieces.

Anyhow, didn’t take a ton of pictures to document, but I finally got around to installing the eBay minispool I bought 2 years ago, and the RA axle shaft kits (USA Gear IIRC). Bought a new spider pin, but couldn’t find it. Old one wasn’t that bad.
Homemade slide hammer I beat the axle bearings out with.
HF seal driver I drove the bearing and seal in with.
In the spirit of the project (and due to the fact the shop was full and it was 65 out yesterday) I did this in a gravel driveway on jackstands.

Put a lube locker gaskets on. Bought originally anticipating pulling locker to install open gears. Someone told me I’d never swap in this thread. They win, cuz I destroyed all the parts I was going to swap back to

So, it’s now back on the road, chirping it’s pleasure with these developments at every turn.

Better than the usual cross pin case breaking failure those turds have.

That’s what I was expecting, actually.
#winning