My main "overlanding" rig is a 2015 Taco TRD Pro, while it works well for my son and I, it quickly runs out of space when camping with his scout troop and as I am the troop committee chairman I tend to be the collection point for other scouts gear.
This will be a condensed post as I have already been working on it.
So I picked this up February of last year, Its a 1989 GMC SLE that was a conversion by a company called Trail Wagons in Yakima WA (just up the freeway from here). The company has been out of business for several years now, they mainly did van conversions, were the creators of the Chinook campers that were installed on Toyotas, and created an H1 camper but i cannot find much info on the Suburbans. I can see extra wood trim, lift kit, fiberglass running boards which incorporate the fender flares as a one piece unit (not sure i like that or that they will stay), a roof rack of sorts, 3" magnaflow exhaust but not sure if that was a conversion part or just added later, and there was a TV at one point judging by the switch labeled TV lol. other than that it is a regular SLE with a TBI 5.7, 700R4, NP241, I need to look at the gearing as it feels like it has pretty good get up and go compared to other suburbans ive owned. It is a low mileage unit with 82K original miles, the previous owner started to sand it down for repaint then passed away, so now it has bare metal and surface rust going on as it was last registered Jan 2020.
it has 4" lift springs and lowering shackles to net a 2" lift (not sure what their thought process was)
This will be a condensed post as I have already been working on it.
So I picked this up February of last year, Its a 1989 GMC SLE that was a conversion by a company called Trail Wagons in Yakima WA (just up the freeway from here). The company has been out of business for several years now, they mainly did van conversions, were the creators of the Chinook campers that were installed on Toyotas, and created an H1 camper but i cannot find much info on the Suburbans. I can see extra wood trim, lift kit, fiberglass running boards which incorporate the fender flares as a one piece unit (not sure i like that or that they will stay), a roof rack of sorts, 3" magnaflow exhaust but not sure if that was a conversion part or just added later, and there was a TV at one point judging by the switch labeled TV lol. other than that it is a regular SLE with a TBI 5.7, 700R4, NP241, I need to look at the gearing as it feels like it has pretty good get up and go compared to other suburbans ive owned. It is a low mileage unit with 82K original miles, the previous owner started to sand it down for repaint then passed away, so now it has bare metal and surface rust going on as it was last registered Jan 2020.
it has 4" lift springs and lowering shackles to net a 2" lift (not sure what their thought process was)
