Man you hit pay dirt at that scrap dumpster find,LUCKEY FIND.Nice looking pipe 1 1/2 " too 3" pipe should do the trick.
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Jakob, I didnât measure it but the machinist said 4 1/2" 1/8" wall.
Mike,
This thought has come to mind:
@2:00 minute mark.
Yes Kevin, and I 
them away under cover and out of the snow right away.
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Bruce; That guy wanted a wheel borrow in the âworst wayâ and I think he found the âworst wayâ to get one. After doing a lot of welding on 55 gal drums, I envy the ability of that gentleman to âstickâ weld that material.
( Personal; Bruce thanks for the pictures of spring in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Takes me back 65 years when I lived up there. I lost all may pictures of my time up there when I burned my shop lately. We took pictures out on Lake Superior where a huge ice-jam had developed. That was awesome. ) TomC
PS. I donât know if you remember, but I made my cooling tubes on my truck out of 4" pipe and it may just be me, but I think my cooling system worked much better than that 2 1/2" tubing.
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Its actually titled as an assembled vehicle. The wife wants this for mud season.
The unseen story was the super duty hauled this, 400 miles @65mph, on 100% biodiesel that we made last summer. Pump diesel was $5.39 along the route. I skeptical, as the 7.3 has 319000 miles on it. I kept it under 2000 rpm and the transmission never missed a beat.
I am not in love with this Suburban/Cadillac steaming pile of workâŚbut it did come with a brand-new, never been run, set of Interco TSL Thornbirds, which was worth the drive!
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Oh so they made a Gasser using a Suburban frame?
Itâs not a notorious Northstar V8 is it?
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You will have to get the guys to install for her a forward down looking camera in addition to a back up camera BruceJ.
Have to protect the large deer and small ponyâs.
S.U.
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Cody,
Yep, itâs a SBC/700r4/NP208 combo. Its too hodgepodgie for me though. The chrome headers look like they were for a 2wd, as a good bump will beat them against the spring shackles. Has a carb, but serpentine accessories. Frame has dual shock mounts, axle has single⌠nothing hooked up. It will be some head scratching. Right now, I have to figure out whether I even want it to burn gasoline, or biodiesel. A 6.2 would be the simplest answer. A 292 six cylinder would be more enjoyable to work onâŚhmmmm.
Steve, the camera idea is really good, will do!
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Im all in favor of haphazardly thrown together projects, but in my personal opinion please do not ever try to run those thornbirds on the road. I will argue they are the worst tire super swamper ever created and virtually useless around here without 6-7 hours of hot knife fixing action. They pack with mud, they do not balance, 3 days of sitting and they have flat spots that will shake your molars and fillings loose. We call them thornturds, Just in my experience
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Damn Marcus. Way to stick a pin in a guys balloon. Those tires are the highlight of the score. Looks like something Chicanoâs in LA may have built. I say if your tires pack with mud you are just not spinning them fast enough. When I was running my mud truck, leaving a thirty foot long mud rooster tail was common. BBC with dual quads on a tunnel ram.
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Thanks for the info Marcus. The good news is these tires wonât see pavement, will never need to be balanced, and wonât pack with mud. They are prized here, because those knobs on the sides shift the rocks from the side of the rut, saving the sidewalls. We need these tires for late March to early May. The frost goes off and the roads go soft. Our driveway is a half mile with sandy rock. It gets soft but not slimy.
Sadly, ever time I get a set of these, somebody comes along and buys them before I get to use them. This is the fourth setâŚ
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I had a set on a samurai wheeler and for our type of mud and 1.3 squirrels under the hood there was no way to spin them and keep them cleaned out. Mine ended up like this before they became performers in the mud but still garbage on the street
I more or less tried to comp cut them into a bogger, then they worked good
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It needs one of those lift kits, and an ls upgrade. Then some spinner rims. Heck if you get it assembled, you could probably sell it down state for a bit of cash. Personally i would look at an electric conversion kit for it, but that is me. 
I donât think it will be ready for argos this year ha all wellđ¤ I didnât have any lemons but the man i bought it from was very nice and gave me and my friend some sun drop to drink he said it was formulated near by in kentucky
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Sun Drop is one of my favorite sodas, though Cheerwine is the tops. SunDrop was actually created in Louisiana originally. Less sugar than Mountain Dew.
Nice truck Corey!!
Is it a v-8 . What year model?
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Curb find! well technically marketplace find, but freemium 
it probably weighs 150lbs. I need to figure out how to get wheels on it to move it. I want to put the drill press I canât lift by myself on it.
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Two things.
1997 Chevy with a dump bed. 168k miles. Engine and tranny runs good. It appears to be able to adjust the timing. Plastic intake. Brakes and AC work well. $2000
Second is a brake lathe. I really wanted the cart it sits on but then i thought, can the lathe be useful with a secondary purpose? Can i turn it into something else? Its pretty heavy duty. It was free
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What happened to that red dump truck you had?
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The red truck took too much money out of my pocket so I got rid of it.
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