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    1977 C20 Heavy duty with 11.15 drums?

    Here are some pictures I took of a C20 custom deluxe stepside in the storage place I use. Has a FF axles and 16" steel wheels; those drums look little in the wheels.... truck has a fo fiddy fo in it too. Hopefully someone gets ahold of it to put it back running, this is a kinda rare truck, long...
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    Interior color combos for Ochre (Spanish Gold) exterior paint

    I would think the saddle tan would have been most common. Our '78 GMC Sierra shop truck was Colonial Yellow and it had saddle tan vinyl interior. But I'm sure others who know way more than me, will chime in.....
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    1978 Suburban just came in to a local yard

    I won't be able to get there before Saturday, gotta work tomorrow and Friday
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    1978 Suburban just came in to a local yard

    Unfortunately in Texas, once the yard gets it on the picking lot, it's theirs. However, this company does sell used cars... maybe you could get ahold of them and see if they will sell it to you and prove me wrong.... U Pull And Pay/Houston/Texas/used cars....
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    Unlock barn doors from inside

    Something along similar lines: the OBS Burbs have a rocker switch by the right side door post, just inside on the D pillar, that locks/unlocks the rest of the doors with the power locks. I wanted this feature on our square body Burbs....
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    1978 Suburban just came in to a local yard

    Yup I don't like that they do that. LKQ gives you several angles. But these guys are cheaper on most stuff and I'm in the VIP club so I get in for $2 instead of $3: it's $5 now at LKQ.
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    1978 Suburban just came in to a local yard

    If I can get out there, I'll look. I'll let you know....
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    1978 Suburban just came in to a local yard

    Hey all, I check the local wrecking yard listings frequently, in the Houston, Texas area. This popped up today, yard put it out sometime yesterday. Looks like it's got plenty of good stuff left on it, to save other trucks. This is the U Pull And Pay, in SE Houston, close to Hobby Airport. I will...
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    New member with a new C10 build

    The later style came out in '77.... I just sold the accessories brochure/catalog for that year but I took pics of it for posterity. Our '81 had the GMC version on it....The other picture shows the bumper guards.
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    Is the polished/chrome tailgate cap stock, on my 87.

    Those factory plastic gate top rails are on the NBS and newer, especially on the 2007- up trucks. Those gates are thicker than the square body or OBS gates.
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    Searching for My Dad's 1979 Chevy Suburban

    These trucks are like that sometimes, especially if you're fixing one that's been neglected. Most of us have been there at some point in time.
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    Center/carrier bearing orientation - 76 C20 suburban

    That's the part I was thinking of. I looked at my OBS Crew Cab and it has that part too. Looks a little bit different but considering it's a newer generation and twenty years newer... this is to be expected. Still not sure about those other covers/washers. I don't recall having those on our...
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    What would you pay for this truck?

    Thinking about what I wrote: I'm thinking that the '78 Sierra shop truck had the white version of this cap on it when we got it. We bought it in May or early June of '78, and after it was wrecked at less than a year old, it got the GM factory wagon wheels, painted Colonial Yellow like the rest...
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    Center/carrier bearing orientation - 76 C20 suburban

    WOW, that doesn't look familiar. I haven't had to service this on my Crew Cab so not sure if it is different style on the OBS trucks.
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    What would you pay for this truck?

    I didn't know they ran the chrome early style dog dish hubcaps through '77. The dealership took Dad's 75 Sierra Classic to a shop off-site to add the extra tank, and they did a hack job on it. From what I've read and heard, that's unfortunately commonplace.
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    Show your daily driver

    Agreed on the longer WB making it ride better. One of many reasons we preferred longbed trucks. I had a buddy in high school that took me out wheeling in his '74 Blazer K5. Fun,and we were just going around the bayous and where subdivisions were going in near school, but the short WB made it not...
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    Searching for My Dad's 1979 Chevy Suburban

    Yes I remember those.... lots of vacuum lines and cables. Now they do it all electronically.... My OBS trucks have a box on the firewall with a plug and a cable to go to the throttle body. New trucks, it's probably all in the computers....
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    Unlock barn doors from inside

    All I remember the '90 having (only square Burb we had with barn doors) was the tab on the bottom of the left door, to open it/release the striker, once the right door was open. And we opened the right door with the key, unless someone opened one of the front doors first and hit the power locks.
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    Show your daily driver

    Maybe they don't have kids yet....at lunch we saw two families, probably the kids are cousins, six between the couples and another on the way. One of these skinny girls that looks like she ate a watermelon when she is pregnant....
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    Show your daily driver

    My brother has a theory about this very thing. He noticed many of his smaller female friends had Jeeps or trucks, because they felt safer and could see further ahead in traffic. Might be a reverse macho thing too.
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    Center/carrier bearing orientation - 76 C20 suburban

    It looked like a metal jar lid IIRC....both Burbs are long gone so IDK what exactly it looks like, or have measurements.
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    1977 C20 Heavy duty with 11.15 drums?

    I think the later style OBS has slip on drums. Pretty sure my '97 does because the shop didn't charge for pulling the axles and refilling the diff oil when they changed the wheel cylinders last fall. But some of our guys on the OBS/400 forum with older one tons have the square body style drums...
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Yup, tolex is a fabric that Fender and other makers used to cover amplifier and guitar cases. Has a nice pattern and it's pretty durable.
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    1977 C20 Heavy duty with 11.15 drums?

    I can vouch that on my OBS one ton with 13" brakes on a 14B FF and 16" factory steelies, the space is a bit tight....as in the upper picture @AuroraGirl posted. Just enough room to get a wheel retaining strap between the wheel rim and drum. Yes you can put this big of a truck on a flatbed...
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    Howdy from Poland

    Yes I believe @mibars is his username.

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