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the Avalanche you guys remember the Avalanche the things been around since
2003 it was an Ultimate Adventure truck in Four-Wheel and Off-Road magazine and
then it was driven by a bunch of different people and abused and then it
was parked I bought it from the company and then it was parked some more and
then earlier in 2017 we decided to revitalize this truck and bring it back
to life and Dave and I worked on it like crazy and we took it to Idaho to go snow
racing and in a matter of four hours we destroyed it again we bent the frame we
smashed the b-pillar we smashed a bunch of doors and it was
pretty sad and it has been sitting here again so I reached out to all of you and
I said what should I do with the Avalanche I had a lot of really good
ideas a lot of people said I should put a square body truck or suburban body on
it and I kind of don't want to do that because I really like the newer body
style of the Avalanche and then some other people said I should strip it all
out or other people said I should restore it back as it is and so I was
kind of like well what am I going to do with this truck it's really cool it's
got an eight-point one liter big-block it's got a four L80 automatic
transmission Atlas transfer case Dana 60 front axle from Dyno Track Corporate 14
bolt in the rear custom bumpers by the guys at fab works custom suspension all
around we used to be independent and now it has a solid front axle has these big
ARB air ARB intensity lights as an ARB air Locker in the rear 14 bolt so it's
got all this cool stuff it's just kind of beat-up right now so I was wondering
what to do on a friend of mine bought a suburban and he bought the suburban just
to take the engine out of it so he had this suburban that he was getting rid of
so I bought the suburban from my friend and now I'm gonna put watch out for that
tree camera guy this way now come forward there's my spotting skills all
right stop a little bit that way good right there
all right so here's my suburban what's really cool about this suburban
is it's got barn doors I really like barn doors on suburban so it's really
nice to open up the barn doors and climb inside if you want to sleep in it so I
have this cool it's actually a Yukon XL the GMC version of suburban but it's
pretty clean kind of looks like a Secret Service truck because it's all black
except for the wheels and it has no engine no transmission because all that
stuff's been stripped out and the cool thing is the suburban bodies share the
same frame as the Avalanche so in theory I haven't actually done this but in
theory I should be able to unbolt this body and bolt it on to that frame now I
told you before we had damaged the frame and a lot of people have looked at the
frame of the Avalanche and said you can't fix it well hogwash we're going to
try and fix it I figure it's already got all the suspension work on it it's got
the engine transmission and transfer case in it and it's got the big axles
and the big tires and everything so I'm going to pull the body off of the
Avalanche and we're going to try and beat that frame back industry whether we
have to heat it and beat it or stretch it or cut and put a new section in
whatever we're going to do want to figure out how to get that that frame
back into ready to wheel condition and then we're going to drop this body on to
it the nice thing about the Suburban over the Avalanche is all of this
section here which you're not using you'll be able to use be able to like
have a sleeping area which will be in the back portion of the suburban so in
theory this body will get lifted off and dropped onto this frame and we will be
able to then have a big block eight point one solid axle suburban on an
avalanche frame on 37s now this brings up another question how do we do this
legally well that's what I'm doing right now
so if next year you don't see a video of all this happening it's because I found
out that we can't legally do it but in theory from what I understand the VIN
numbers of a vehicle go with the chassis so we should be able to keep this
chassis and keep it registered as a 3/4 ton avalanche even though it will have a
suburban body on it but I don't really know and most the
people that I asked they just roll their eyes in there like you're crazy that's
not going to work you don't know what you're doing that's too much work why
would you ever do that why don't you just get a suburban that's already done
I don't know because we want to try something new and different and I think
the Avalanche even though I would like to keep it it's pretty beat-up and I
think having this body when it will be really cool so hopefully within the next
12 to 16 months or years we will have a suburban on some 37 and we will be
bombing I mean I will go racing in like Mexico I racing in Idaho that was really
cold we'll go someplace nice and warm where we can wear flip-flops let's a
printer devarti extras there's a little update on the Avalanche hopefully the
next time we have an extra about the Avalanche we're actually doing some work
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