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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Members Rides => Topic started by: slmdchvy05 on August 24, 2011, 08:17:26 am
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Here is my new project, it is a bagged crew cab dually that is in the process in geting all new interior and a LS 6.0Lt with a 4l80e to power it and 19.5" or maybe 22.5" Alcoa wheels. Right now this truck has a 350 with a TH400 trans and NO interior or windows, I have found a 91 doner suburban with perfect interior, all the window and a straight body. I will also be pulling the saddle tanks off and putting the burb tank in the rear of the truck, I have already got a 91 burb front clip on it. The very last picture is what inspired me to get this truck and you can still pull trailers with them, I have seen a bagged dually with a goose neck pulling a 3 car hauller loaded down with cars going to a show "looked so clean".
Does anyone know if the headliner will fit because it looks long enough and it looks brand new with zero flaws.
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Oh yea I am also going to be doing the one piece glass for the front doors, does anyone know if they make a one piece back door glass kit or if another vehicle with the same rear glass or would I prob have to make a custom kit myself and have glass cut for it.
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That is a big looking truck, maybe because it is so low. Are you setting it up for show or just to have fun in ?
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The burb headliner won't work on a Crew.
There currently isn't a rear kit for the burbs yet, but if OPP has the interest required, they will make them. They have the kit mocked up. No other vehicle has the same rear glass curvature of a 73-87(91) if it was that easy, I would have already done it years ago. You can't get curved tempered glass "cut". it has to be molded to size.
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Thats a sweet looking truck!
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welcome aboard man, im a dually fanatic. thats a sick ride you have right there. great project for sure. i cant wait to follow this one. how about some details. what link set up you running ? whats your airride setup consist of ? did you z it ?
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I'm diggin it! I just picked up a 79 crew that will be layed out soon! Nice find, sir.
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I used to have that last pic as my destop background! Project looks soooo sick man, I can't wait to see the finished product!!!!!
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Thanks guys, I do not know anything about the truck history wise nor do I know anything about it as it sits now. I found this truck online and contacted the guy that owned it and traded my 2008 Yamaha YFZ450 for it, I was kind of hesatant towards getting it because the guy said the tran was going out and it and it did not have any windows or interior in it. I went and looked at it and it really did not look bad body wise so I said F it ill take it im good at fabricating stuff so we traded and he gave me $250 cash with the truck LOL. I drove about three block down the road to my friends trans shop and he checked it all out and said it has the TH400 in it and everything trans wise was hooked up right but the reason it was not shifting right was because it had a couple of vacuum leaks. I went out Saturday and stripped a 91 burb that has perfect light grey interior in it and pulled all the interior out of it and pulled the doors and seals off and pulled the complete wiring harness fuse box and all nothing is cut, going back out this Saturday to get the gas tank and the front seat brackets and whatever else I can use.
my last project was a 1990 single cab 1500 that I cut the frame off from the cab back and fabricated a 2006 GTO IRS rear end in it, that truck was fun.
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Here is another pic.
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nice. the one piece windows have free shipping at the store here. click on the ad banner at the top of the page.
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Do you know the price of the one piece window as the store says its closed till Sep. 5th
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Do you know the price of the one piece window as the store says its closed till Sep. 5th
They're a bit pricey, $675.
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You the Guy I talked to on the phone the other day?
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Nope im not that guy.... Those window kits are close to the same price every where that I have looked. What is all included in the window kits? I am also going to be getting in contact with a custom shop in my area that does custom glass and going to see if they can cut me some glass to do one piece windows for the back doors.
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So I have call around to a couple of different custom glass shops about a doing a single piece rear door glass, a couple of places said that nothing will work for it and cant be done and one place said they would have to call and engineer out to make a mold for them and that was about 15k and the back door glass would cost about 5k LOL I said "No thanks, I'm not looking to put that kind of money in to a window that someone might break out". I would really like a one piece glass for the rear doors so I guess I might just go with plexiglass or something.
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Glass gets plyable when hot, ever thought about doing it yourself?
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Glass gets plyable when hot, ever thought about doing it yourself?
Yea I have been researching on the web about how to cut and not to cut glass that has already been tempered, the only thing is trying to find a piece of glass that is some what close to the height, width, lenght and shape to fit the back doors. Glass would have to get really hot to shape it I would think and be a PITA to work with and not breaking it lol. I even thought about going to a local pick and pull and getting to back doors off of a 88-2000 dually and cutting the window section out of them and fabing them in to the other doors and fabing the tracks and all. That is just a thought because I have an extra set of front and back doors from a burb that I paid $300 for everything. I will prob just end up going the door rout because I like to customize and fab stuff up myself. I might even cosider doing the front doors depending on how the bak doors go, I have the door glass from a 88-98 1500 that I got for $50 when I had my old truck.
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Trust me, I have been down this road already. You aren't going to be able to do this on you own without making a template mold and paying a huge amount of money to make it work. Call OPP and tell them you would like them to make it. Like I said, they already have it mocked up. They just need enough interest to push it to the top.
I have research the front and rear doors for this almost 10 years ago, there isn't a vehicle made that has even remotely close to the same curvature. It will HAVE to be custom.
BTW, the window kits I sell come with everything except the door shell and the window regulator. If you price out the same for replacing just the vent windows and felts you will be almost that much already....
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Yea I have priced it all out and there is not much of a differance in price. I have been swaping parts out the past couple of days, I have all four doors that are complete with everything from a burb. I am going to keep it on the cheap rout for now and later on do the one piece windows.
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Hey guys I know its been a lil bit but I have been super busy. I have not really done much to the truck lately but I will start back up soon and give y'all updates and post pis.
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ill be waiting !!!1 haha