buckshot815
Junior Member
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2022
- Posts
- 3
- Reaction score
- 12
- Location
- Montana
- First Name
- Brad
- Truck Year
- 1986
- Truck Model
- K3500
- Engine Size
- 454
Hello everyone!
I'm finally the owner of a squarebody-again. I had an '86 Suburban, but sold it a few years after high school. Picked this guy up last fall-after some life hiccups shortly thereafter, back to working on it in earnest.
It's a 1986 K3500. Obviously the frame was chopped and the bed and bumpers fabricated. I purchased it with a 12" lift and the 44" tires pictured. It had major mobility issues due to the driveline angles, and an odd decision to reverse the rear driveshaft and raise the transfer case. That is all now "un-bubba'd". The lift is dropped to 5", and I'm working on getting doors painted and back on now.
Big plans, but slow going-I've got a lot going on and it's never a good time for a project. I felt like this one was 'now or never'-a shortened frame 4 door that was driveable and not full of rust, with all the fab work done, without spending an arm and a leg. I'll probably have to rewire it, but easier and cheaper for me to do that than shorten a frame.
Will no doubt have some questions in the future-glad to be here!
(That's not me in the water, btw)
I'm finally the owner of a squarebody-again. I had an '86 Suburban, but sold it a few years after high school. Picked this guy up last fall-after some life hiccups shortly thereafter, back to working on it in earnest.
It's a 1986 K3500. Obviously the frame was chopped and the bed and bumpers fabricated. I purchased it with a 12" lift and the 44" tires pictured. It had major mobility issues due to the driveline angles, and an odd decision to reverse the rear driveshaft and raise the transfer case. That is all now "un-bubba'd". The lift is dropped to 5", and I'm working on getting doors painted and back on now.
Big plans, but slow going-I've got a lot going on and it's never a good time for a project. I felt like this one was 'now or never'-a shortened frame 4 door that was driveable and not full of rust, with all the fab work done, without spending an arm and a leg. I'll probably have to rewire it, but easier and cheaper for me to do that than shorten a frame.
Will no doubt have some questions in the future-glad to be here!
(That's not me in the water, btw)
I like it.
