73-87chevytrucks.com - Suburban Project

[tex62]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that has sputtering and missing issues. Thanks Chris for giving me a few more rabbits to chase on my burb. Man I like that black and silver combo too only seen a few like it.

[Captkaos]

Sunday, September 15th, 2013: I have had carpet to go in the burb for a while but last year I waited until it got to cold to put it in.  This year I planned on getting it in there.
Step one was to get it all out on the ground and let it get warm enough to move.  Mine has the mass backing so it needed all the warmth it could get.  While it was laying out I started removing all the old carpet.



While it was laying out I started removing all the old carpet.  Here is it before I pulled it out for a comparison.







Started in the back just in case I ran out of daylight and needed to move it as it was just a simple removal 



Then pulled out the rear seat bottoms and mounts/stands and seatbelt mounts.  Pulled the original out and used it as a guide to trim the new carpet.  I got it all cut and trimmed, but ran out of daylight before I could mount everything down.



 

[Captkaos]

Sunday, September 15th, 2013: When trying to reinstall the rear seats I found a few stripped holes and ended up having to tap them to one size larger.  I eventually got everything back in.

[Captkaos]

Thursday, November 14th, 2013: Drove the Burb to pick up the headliner pieces and got to the company to pick it up and on my way outside to load them in the truck found anti-freeze spewing out from under the truck.  Upon inspection I found the water pump is leaking.  I did make it back home though.

[Captkaos]

Saturday, February 1st, 2014: After being neglected for a while and driving it short distances with a leak I finally broke down and removed the water pump.
Tools used: 15mm, 1/2",  flat head screwdriver, 3/8", phillips head screwdriver
First order of business was to drain the radiator into a catch pan
Then remove the Serpentine belt with the 15mm wrench
Then out comes the fan shroud, 2 3/8" bolts on each side on the top and 2 phillips head screws holding the 2 halves of the shroud together.
Then remove the upper and lower radiator hoses with a flat head screwdriver, dumping the lower coolant into the catch pan
Then remove the fan from the pulley with 4 1/2" nuts
Then remove the actual water pump with a 1/2" deepwell socket.




With everything removed it was time to clean up the mating surface.  Once clean and new gasket siliconed to the new pump it was time to get it back together.
Reinstalled the newly painted pump with 4 1/2" bolts



Reinstall the pulley and the fan with the 4 1/2" nuts



Then the Lower radiator hose and upper shroud and upper radiator hose.  Fill it with Antifreeze mix and crank it up and top it off.

[dvdswan]

the carpet certainly makes the interior more inviting.  I had to laugh at the sawhorses at the end of the driveway.  I'd do the same thing so the wife and kid wouldn't pull in on the new carpet. lol

[Captkaos]

Saturday, September 26th, 2015:  This will be the last entry for this Suburban.  For the past 4 years it has been my most reliable and dependable vehicle but I just have to many so I decided to let this one go.  It was sold yesterday.

[LTZ C20]

Sorry to see it go

[frotosride]

So now that there's more project money in the pot from the Burb...what's getting upgrades?

[Captkaos]

Getting the Camo K5 finished up for driving in the winter, and then K5 that I converted to 2WD will probably be the beneficiary of the funds.

[frotosride]

So jealous. .. there was an 80's k5 sitting in the coast guard parking lot up here on base for ever just rotting away with all the windows down until the resurfaced this past weekend and it just disappeared. Would love to have it but I got no way to get it to GA

[fitz]

Frotosride, was it a Military blazer parked at the Coast Guard Station?

[frotosride]

No it wasn't unless I'm mistaken it was blue and white and looked like a lot of just to get it working kind of mechanical pratices. I'm sure it was just someone's project that they were just stirring on base