My 1995 Chevy Suburban K1500
With all the four wheeling trips that I had been taking and the beating
that we were putting on our smaller vehicles by towing heavy trailers I
decided it was time to pick up a tow vehicle. All the Suburbans that
were in my price range were at around 200,000 miles so when I came across this
one with only leaking gas tank and fuel line and a little bit of rust
underneath with only 83,000 miles I jumped on it. It's got the
350 TBI V8 and 4WD. I cleaned every
bit of rust off of the underbody that I could and treated it with rust eating primer.
Then I used spray truck bed liner on all areas which were feasible and
rubberized undercoating elsewhere. I picked up a rear bumper from the
junk yard and replaced the gas tank and rear section of fuel lines. I
also had to replace the muffler, which had a hole in it, so I installed a
Cherry Bomb glass pack onto the 3 inch cat back exhaust. Here's how it
looked underneath once I was done:
And here's how it sounds:
I picked up a nice Yakima ski / snowboard roof rack so I can take a full condo worth of people with equipment in one vehicle. It's also big enough to fit my whole family (8 people) for long trips or whole family activities.
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