91 Burb

[Alex33]

Was helping out some friends and thought you guys might be interested. It's a '91 2wd 2500 GMC Suburban with a forged 502 and rock crushing 4L80e. Installed were 3 external trans coolers and an external oil cooler in addition to the OE coolers.

Started here:

Finished here:

Ended up yanking the trans too. This puppy is on it's way to the scrapper after some other bits and pieces come off.

 

[07Burb]

That is a CLEAN square burb!!!! Why are they scrapping it? That body looks way too clean for scrapping

 

[Alex33]

It's actually pretty worn, over 700k on the body and chassis. It's been totalled out 4 times and has had a rough life. I figured you would like it though.

 

[07Burb]

Oh really? I guess there's a lot you can't tell just from the pics I'd love to have that 502!

 

[AtomicHoe094]

why not just sell the damn thing? lol

Ill take the 502 off your hands..

 

[Alex33]

It might get sold or parted. As for the BBC, the plan is to install it into a "younger" 4WD Burban.

 

[purple 'hoe]

I'd totally drive out and buy the truck from you. Even without the 502, that's a really clean looking truck. Would make a fun weekend toy

 

[Alex33]

Started on the 502 today. Nothing major, just little bits and pieces. I'll have some items see the powdercoater and get that nasty yellow off the block too.

 

[bowtiefreak]

poor burban. hard to believe it's been through all that

 

[Alex33]

^^ Yeah, it looks decent because this time 2 yrs ago we did a full color change, added new rubber seals to all the doors, new door handles, lights (heads and tails), grill shell and light surround and new wheels/tires. It got a nice freshening up.

Today I just did block prep. A lot of taping, cleaning, re-taping, scuffing, re-taping and more scuffing. All that work that nobody will see since everything is going back to black. Oh well, it's a fun project and a way to keep busy while killing time

 

[Alex33]

Thought I'd share some pics from the last week. More block prep and I got around to priming and painting. Nothing super special but something to enjoy.

Cleaning the block. Started with this. Nasty yellow block and rusty heads:

Halfway clean:

Taped and Primed:

Finally coated in gloss black engine enamel:

 

[07Burb]

Wow! Huge difference

 

[Alex33]

Wow! Huge difference

Thanks 07burb.

In case anyone is wondering why I didn't spend much time on the timing chain cover or with that oil pan, new versions of each are sitting in boxes waiting for final assembly.

 

[Alex33]

UPDATES! Ok, just kidding. No! Really, I have updates, haha. I'm working on assembling everything. We did ARP head bolts and new ARP fasteners for everything that bolts onto the block. I didn't get a shot of the new Moroso pan because it's not installed yet, but that should be sometime next week. I did get the brackets and pullies back from powdercoat and they look pretty good. Not too sure about the intake though. We weren't shooting to have it look primered, but we'll run it for a little while and see if we want to change to a darker gray later. The water pump I just shot with clear so it wouldn't be porous and would be easier to wipe off. On to pics.

New timing chain cover and allen head bolts:

Powdercoated IM w/ new 12 point stainless ARP bolts:

A/C compressor and idler pulley attached to bracket and bracket attached to motor with new water pump:

 

[Alex33]

Not sure who's following this or even interested, but a few more updates are coming. We got a 4x4 Suburban that we're going to swap the motor into. The frame has been gusseted in a few places and pretty much freshened up. We're trying to decide whether to use the red body or use the body that came on the "new" truck. After all the goodies we got, we found the new pan, timing cover and a few other bits didn't fit so we've been chasing down that problem so we can get the motor sealed up. We ended up with a new stock pan and went with a different aluminum timing cover for the motor. I've been working on cleaning up the under hood wiring the last few days and it's def looking better. I'm uploading a crapload of pics tonight so hopefully I'll have some stuff to share later this week.

 

[07Burb]

Any pics of the "new" one?

 

[Alex33]

Took a lot of pics, mostly of disassembly and wiring. I did get the firewall touched up today and some parts of the frame too. On to the pics.

New and old:

After I swapped wheels:

Initial mess of wires:

Dash cover and cluster had to go while chasing phantom wires through firewall:

Underhood wiring pared down to basics:

Firewall taped off for touch up:

 

[Alex33]

Not much happened the past couple days, just hit the blower box w/ some undercoating and did the same with the brake booster. It looks better I think.

Pics:

 

[07Burb]

That does look much better

 

[bjballar41]

pic of supra in the background? sorry i love those cars.