New to me 88 Burb, hello all

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Swazo

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I’ve been lurking, reading and searching down rabbit holes here and thought I should post an intro to start.

I flew into Salt Lake City intending to buy a vehicle while in town on business, and drive 13-14 hours back to the Oregon coast. 10 vehicles Id been vetting over the phone didn’t pan out for one reason or another, and this popped up one of the last days there.
1988 GMC V1500 9-person w/ rear AC Suburban 350tbi/700r4 with a top shelf Off-road Design 6” lift kit, D44/14-bolt 3/4 ton axle swap (axles stripped, prepped and painted prior to being professionally built with 4.56 gears, Detroit locker in rear and beefy diff covers) professionally installed with a new driveshaft. Drives great, brakes nice, steers amazingly and is pretty clean over all.

Bought it, loaded my gear and left for the coast. Not quite at the half way mark, I threw a rod outside of Boise, Idaho. Uhaul said their car hauler wouldn’t tow a Suburban online, but being desperate, I gave it a shot. Even with all my gear in the moving truck, this was squirrelly as hell and 45 mph was as good as it got. Turned a 13 hour drive into a 26.5 hour drive.

Not wanting to rebuild the 350, getting spooked from remans from part stores and unwilling to pay $2k+ for a decent reman.....
I chose to buy a low mile ‘01 5.3L LM7 to swap in. I’m sticking with the 700r4 and am trying to make sure I get the TV cable setup right. 5.3 is getting powder coated black CCP high flow e.manifolds for OEM like sealing, a CAI and a reflashed ECU for this setup. I’m pinning out my harness and making a clean standalone setup.

I haven’t started yet, but am waiting on freight, UPS/FedEx and snail mail. Keep an eye for my build thread ;)
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shiftpro

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Wow what an adventure, and welcome to the site.
Your Burb is in awesome shape, look forward to your build.
 

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Welcome nice Burb. Workin that little U-Haul trailer a little. Lol
 

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Welcome. Nice truck. I believe it was a squirrelly tow, with that much burb hanging off the end of the trailer.
 

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Welcome, I have done a suburban on uhual trailer before and also experienced a limit of about 45mph. I think not a bad choice on dumping tbi after a major failure.
 

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Nice suburban. Hell, I had a 92 cavalier on an U-Haul trailer and that thing didnt want to do over 55.
 

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Welcome to the site, sweet Burb..
 

1987 GMC Jimmy

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Dang. When I took my Caprice to be painted, I put it on the back of a Uhaul, and it was a little washy at first, but I was able to do about 70-75 on the freeway safely or so I thought. That was pulling it with an '02 Suburban 1500.
 

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Dang. When I took my Caprice to be painted, I put it on the back of a Uhaul, and it was a little washy at first, but I was able to do about 70-75 on the freeway safely or so I thought. That was pulling it with an '02 Suburban 1500.

It's got a huge amount to do with how you load the trailer. balance is your friend. When we hauled my d30 home, it wasn't a U-haul trailer, but by centering the load, we were able to run 70-75mph, until a tire decided to de-laminate. Pulled it with a 2017 2500HD. You could barely feel the 5900 lbs of truck plus whatever the trailer weighed behind it.
 

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That makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, there's practically zero room to move a car or truck that long on that car hauler so I guess it worked out pretty good!
 

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What an excellent color combo! Nice Burb and a great base to build on.

Welcome!
 

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Welcome to the forum, that burb is SWEET!! sucks it blew not long after buying it, id be pissed!! Cant wait to see what you create
 

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Wow, what a cool Suburban!

And howdy!
 

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I’ve been lurking, reading and searching down rabbit holes here and thought I should post an intro to start.

I flew into Salt Lake City intending to buy a vehicle while in town on business, and drive 13-14 hours back to the Oregon coast. 10 vehicles Id been vetting over the phone didn’t pan out for one reason or another, and this popped up one of the last days there.
1988 GMC V1500 9-person w/ rear AC Suburban 350tbi/700r4 with a top shelf Off-road Design 6” lift kit, D44/14-bolt 3/4 ton axle swap (axles stripped, prepped and painted prior to being professionally built with 4.56 gears, Detroit locker in rear and beefy diff covers) professionally installed with a new driveshaft. Drives great, brakes nice, steers amazingly and is pretty clean over all.

Bought it, loaded my gear and left for the coast. Not quite at the half way mark, I threw a rod outside of Boise, Idaho. Uhaul said their car hauler wouldn’t tow a Suburban online, but being desperate, I gave it a shot. Even with all my gear in the moving truck, this was squirrelly as hell and 45 mph was as good as it got. Turned a 13 hour drive into a 26.5 hour drive.

Not wanting to rebuild the 350, getting spooked from remans from part stores and unwilling to pay $2k+ for a decent reman.....
I chose to buy a low mile ‘01 5.3L LM7 to swap in. I’m sticking with the 700r4 and am trying to make sure I get the TV cable setup right. 5.3 is getting powder coated black CCP high flow e.manifolds for OEM like sealing, a CAI and a reflashed ECU for this setup. I’m pinning out my harness and making a clean standalone setup.

I haven’t started yet, but am waiting on freight, UPS/FedEx and snail mail. Keep an eye for my build thread ;)
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You actually got your wheels (both sides? looks like it) inside the tracks? I saw an overloaded Uhaul recently and noticed the tires
were sitting on the railing sticking out. Im not sure, maybe at least a few inches outboard and each side driver and pass. He put planks down shimmed up to level with the railing so the rig wasn't just sitting on the aluminum railing.
Yeah and he had a dozen or more straps sucking the truck down. And little wheel chocks just screwed into planks. He was keeping a close eye on the party.
The truck was a square leaf sprung rock crawler that had just relinquished it's 'street legal' status. Short wheel base and 39 or 40" Pitbulls so
that's probably why all that rubber was hanging out in the wind.
 

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