My 1989 Suburban with a Westfalia top grafted into it... also dual 360 swivel seats

Clawhammer

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Yeah, all excellent points. Wildernest's and FlipPac's are rare around here and high $$$, so you know, just spitballing over here.
 

dbreid

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I don't know how I missed it, but this isn't the worst idea in the world.....http://hooniverse.com/2016/02/11/di...-more-awesome-less-terrible-than-youd-expect/

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dbreid

Adventurer
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The power steps are amazing. Led courtesy lights, can be removed with a couple bolts, and we put in a kill switch to keep them in the up position (in case I don't want them to deploy when the doors open).

Also upgraded the braking to hydroboost (night and day difference, no joke), and added a steering shock on a custom mount from diy4x that is also set up to take hydro assist steering if I ever run huge tires on this truck.

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dbreid

Adventurer
Update. Truck now has complete rebuilt one tons. Front D60 with ARB and all the bells and whistles and a 14 bolt FF rear with ARB as well. Ran a dual ARB under the hood and with the big brakes and new hydroboost it has amazing brakes now!

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dbreid

Adventurer
Here's a shot showing the nice switch pod added to house the ARB switches (compressor, front and rear lockers).

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And here's the 14bff rear

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And the fresh 40 gallon tank

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dbreid

Adventurer
Oh and by the way (because folks always like debating this), Robert (RAK motorsports) and I argued for a while on the brakes for the rear axle. He wanted to do discs but the e-brakes with the eldorado brakes suck. So I voted for new drums. Robert had to use the backing plates off my of semi float and measure a bunch to get the right ebrake cables. But they work great!

Just explaining why I opted for drums.
 

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