Rusty GMT400 Suburban Frame Restoration & Paint: Uncle George Goes On The Rotisserie! (90s OBS)

This video and the awesomeness that we are doing to this frame is brought to you by Simply Safe. It is time to start working on the frame. We got it separated from the body from this 93 Suburban. Looks pretty good. It's a little bit dirty. The only real grease is up here just from miscellaneous leakage over the years. For sitting outside, it's like, look at that. No, this isn't bad at all. It's just dirty. We'll blow this thing off. We're going to paint it with poor 15. Once we get it cleaned off enough, we're going to take the wheels off and put it on a rotisserie cuz um Rob, guy we rent from, he has one. So, if you have one, why would you not want to use it? So, we already sprayed some degreaser on the front end here. Let it soak. So, I'm impressed. That That looks like 30 years old. That looks like brand new metal. Wow. Yeah, that's crazy. That's impressive. I wasn't expecting that. I was not either. Uh, score some pucks. Good luck. Something like that. You know, the usual driver pump talk. Start cleaning up some back here, too. It's really not bad at all. Some of the factory black frame dip that's still on there. I think this thing had been through mud at some point a long time ago cuz you're finding mud blown out of, you know, random places. But it's really not that bad. You can see a line here where I gone over and where I hadn't. So, it's working very well. We're super pumped to get this thing like stripped on the rotisserie. This is going to be really cool. All gloss black. We got the top coat, too. So, we'll put that the top coat on the places of, you know, where it can see sun like on the side rails and things you want to look nice. And we're going to delete this and do coilovers. I'll have a video on that, too. Tors and bar delete will be a different video. I think you guys would like to see that. Took a little bit of a break. It's kind of drying off now. You really get a good idea of what it looks like clean and what it used to look like. That's pretty neat. We're really making progress here. But Logan wanted to do the groiest part herself. Also the most satisfying right here. The only bad thing I noticed is this shock mount area is like cracked in here, but we can weld that back together pretty easily, I'd say. And I thought that maybe we did that whenever we left this body mount accidentally hooked up. But the fact that they have this piece on here tells me that it was already that way and somebody had mandated it. What are you eating? First form jalapeno meat stick. Yeah, we eat those things all the time. And 20 g of protein. It's a lot. Yeah, it's like great when you don't have to uh stop what you're doing and make food. The link in my description will get you free shipping on those things if you want to try them. Where it says the link to the supplements we use. Jalapo one is my favorite. This milk house one we got is good too. Yep. Jalapeno is milk house. Ready? Yep. M grown. Perfectly preserved and junk. I'm taking it in the face for you guys. So beautiful. Oh yeah. We're going to do some double duty here. Check this out. For some of the areas that have a little bit of scale going on back here, there's really not even that much. This is not very good. This is a little bit like right here or up in here. These pieces you can kind of flake off. You just put it in a place where it needs it like somewhere. There's obviously Yeah. Does it like touch it? Yeah. You like run it on there and it knocks the flakes off. Okay. So, you like rub it. Yeah. Yeah. Put it here so there's like actually flakes in there. Okay. Yeah. I like this. Is that your new favorite thing? Yeah. I think we need earplugs. That's really loud. Miner and Elvis. Okay. Well, I just blew all the rust off right here and then the guy was not happy, so it started sucking. But [Music] who wants to see Logan do more of her own commentary while working? Leave a comment. You know there's going to be a bunch of comments, right? Look how dirty I am. You are so dirty. progress so far. This side looks awesome. Okay, so like here's a visual. Take note of what that side looks like. Then we'll go over here. Much different. So, we'll get to the rest of that and we will figure out a way to bolt the front and rear of the frame onto the rotisserie probably tomorrow. Spend about 20 minutes just washing all the dirt off that came off of this thing. Like washing it away from the driveway here. It's a lot. So, we're trying something different. I am practically taking Mitchell's place and doing this stuff or trying to do this stuff, whatever. So, I've been using this al air scaler, whatever it's called, and getting all the rust off of here so when we paint it, it'll go on smoother cuz these are like places that you can see still like kind of like on Elvis. So side of done. Haven't done this any of this. It's going to look much better. Okay, Mitchell, cut this out because I really suck anyway. But this side hasn't been touched. Rough and gross. This side is smooth color. I convinced myself to remove all the brake line stuff. um really didn't want to have to make brake lines or reroute them or anything like that. If I'm being completely honest, I have never cut and flared a brake line before. Just never had to. I thought, you know what? If we just take it off now, it'll be easier to paint this and then I will force myself to learn how to do that and I will do a nice job, too. So, we're going to take that off and take the rest of the harness out because the only thing attaching it to the truck still are those zip ties along the frame rail. That's it. So, we might as well just take the whole thing off and get it out of the way. This will be really easy to put back on once the frame is painted. We can do most of the assembly with the body off and then when we're done, put the body back down. like, you know, do something and lower the body down, make sure it'll fit, and then, you know, pick it back up and, you know, like take advantage of having the body off. I've never done a anything like that before. This is uncharted territory, but we're doing pretty good. So, I have something to tell you that it's not my fault, right? What? So, these are like stuck in there, right? These are like all fine, right? Yeah. Are they missing a stud or something? I think these ones spin. Oh, yeah. I took these out and threaded them back in just to keep um keep poor 15 out of the holes. Those ones are just the backside of brackets that are screwed in over there still. Okay. Yeah, you're all good. Okay. So, I pulled the entire harness out, all the brake lines. It's pretty easy. There's a bunch of clips there. and put all the bolts back in mostly, but not the whole way because we don't want to glue them to the frame with the 415. I figure if we get it up in there, it'll be okay. If it's stuck to the threads a little bit, it'll still bust off, but if it was fully flush and painted around it, it might be stuck to there forever. But the whole body harness here, we'll go through this, clean it up, put new loom on it. Anything messed up, we'll fix that. The only thing holding it to the frame was just the strain that goes right back to the tail lights. Basically, everything else is already laying there. So, we just cut those zip ties and dug it out. Uh, same with the brake lines and the fuel lines. The fuel lines aren't going to get reused anyway. Now, we can paint that all cleanly. Perfect. Put the bolts in the same way, too. Looks like Logan spotting flies. Huh? You swatting flies? There was a mosquito. Oh, did you kill it? I don't know. Can't see it anymore. Well, that'll have to do. Now, I'm going to pull the hitch off because it'll be really easy to bolt the rotisserie to these bolt holes back here, I think. So, so let's freaking go. Sparing you all the unnecessary time lapsing. This is hardly the interesting part of the build, which you should subscribe to if you're interested in it. And make sure you turned all notifications on whenever you put your post notifications on. Otherwise, you might not see them at all. So, there you go. Yeah. Now, we're starting to figure out how to get the rotisserie on here. This thing's pretty neat. Really, this is kind of totally unnecessary, but we're doing it because there's access to one and it will be cool. This is Rob. he owns our building and this rotisserie which I've never had access to in my entire life. We're going to figure out how to use one now. So, the last time this thing was raised was 15 years ago. They kind of feel like the fish and finding emo whenever they flop out of the bags into the ocean. They're just like, "Oh, yeah. Now what?" I don't know. I think we're going to pull the rear end out with the leaf springs, too, cuz I ordered new leafs. Drop that out cuz it's really There's a lot of weight on here still. Doesn't want to flip over. I think once we get the rear end out of there, that'll make that a lot easier. And we can keep pressure washing. Now we have more areas exposed, like these knuckles and whatnot. Clean it up some more. That inner rail in there needs some more work. Something to remember that I try to remember myself and I guess also passing along is the work is temporary. The result is forever. Put in the work now. This thing will be awesome forever. But I keep reminding ourselves that because you don't want to get lazy and just be like, you know what, screw it. Let's just paint it now or whatever. We don't need to take this off. Whatever. No, do it. Do it right. Do it once. Enjoy it for longer than it takes to do the work. Saying that helps me remember that, too, because it's a struggle. This is this is a daunting daunting project, but we're here. We're in it. We're in it to win it, and we're glad you guys are here for it. Well, we got it up on its side and now we can clean the bottom and prep the bottom and then we're one step closer to painting. I'd say we're pretty close now. The top, the sides are good. Now we just got to clean the bottom off. And what happened was we underestimated how heavy this was. And now this pin is bent and starting to come off. That bolt's bent. We can't get it out. So when we pull it out, everything's just going to go woof really, really uncontrollably. And we don't know how to do that cuz it's too heavy to pick it up and get that out of there cuz it's stuck. So we're just going to lower it and knock it free and stand clear and see what happens. I think that's about all we can do. Bended it the rest of the way out. I mean, you got to redo it anyway. Yeah, it's getting close. Oh, okay. That was really antilimactic. I thought that was going to be a lot worse. And to tell you the truth, it's kind of disappointing. I brought my seat out cuz I thought this was going to be a lot of banging. It's like a whole big show. I got the hammer and the screwdriver and Well, dang. Okay, it's the result we wanted now. That's like Superman. He just came over and saved the day. It's just Well, so I got a thing. Well, it's got to be thick. So, we're going to put that down. We're going to put that in revision number 3B. Bigger bolts at both ends. The directions for the poor 15 that you cannot apply it below 70°. We're actually using the Simply Safe sensor to make sure that the frame area like the air around the frame is over 70°. It is a whole home security system with multiple really cool gadgets and sensors and everything that's centralized through your phone. So you can see right now it says 74. So we are all good. It says new water on there right now because we're going to use that in the water bay or new motor home to make sure it doesn't freeze. It'll tell you, hey man, your pipe's about to freeze and you can do something about it. which is really good because some of you may remember that we actually did have a problem with the pipes freezing during the big Texas winter storm. You hear the base station ding. You plug that in somewhere. It'll tell you on your phone and this neat keypad entry sensor open. So you know, you always know what if somebody doesn't open the door they break a window to get in. Well, this is a glass brake sensor and you put this near your window. So if it breaks glass, it detects that frequency and will set the alarm off and call the police, tell you about it, anything you want. But what if got in here somehow getting around all that? Well, there's a motion sensor, too. You can also arm and disarm the system with this little key tab right here. There's even cameras. There's indoor, outdoor. We got them both set up. You can watch us doing stupid stuff. And they also got a water sensor. So you could put this somewhere that's prone to flooding, like underneath your washing machine or maybe in the water bay. The new we might use it there. Hold on. I'm panicked. If somebody just like decides to just straight up walk in here, I'm just going to press the panic button. Then I'm stressed out. I need you to come up here. It's extremely easy to set up. Did it all from my phone. And you can save 20% on your Simplysafe system. Visit simplysafe.com/staples42 to get your setup today and keep your shop or house safe just like ours. Today's paint day. So, started spraying this thing off with the cleaner degreaser that they have on their website. Even though we've already clean and degreased this thing with the Zep 505 yellow oven cleaner, you know, like it's been cleaned different angles, different directions. We're not leaving anything to chance. We want this stuff to stay on there. So, the last step, we're using the stuff that they actually call for wants you to to dilute it. So, that's what we did. And I would recommend wearing gloves because I literally just did that and I I can already feel like the tips of my fingers feel weird. Got all the degreaser off. Now it's time for the last step before painting, which is the metal prep. Basically, from what I gather, you spray it on there. You got to keep it wet. Just kind of keep going over it for 20 to 30 minutes, and then you rinse it off. And then the frame has to be completely dry before you start painting. So, we're going to put this in a sprayer and start spraying it. Also, this whole video has been filmed over the course of like two weeks. Apologize for the lack of uploading more frequently, but in lie of putting out shorter, more useless videos, we just bridged it all into one, which actually does worse because um collectively gets less views, but it's it's more condensed and more informative. So, for something like this, that's more important. Don't really know what we're doing, but we're doing it. Going to spray it on everything, I guess. If you're wondering about the open ports on the steering box and if we learned our lesson after having the power steering go bad during sick week in the Escalade from cleaning the power steering pump, no, we have not learned our lesson. But, um, I didn't want to have to separate the pitman arm or the any of that stuff right now because we don't have the tools to do it. Whatever. We'll get a better steering box. Guys, this is so much fun. Can you tell how much fun I'm having? Yeah. Don't you wish you were doing this instead? No. The rules have reversed. You get to clean things now. Yep. after careful um consideration in research, mostly looking through YouTube and seeing all the people like, "Poor 15 is garbage. Poor 15 is bad. I'm never using it again." I also put it on when it was 50° outside and it didn't work and now I'm mad. It's 68° outside. The instructions say apply in 70° or higher. 68. Not even 69. It's 68. So, we're we rolled it in here and we got some space heaters going. So, we can keep it above 70° in here all the time, regardless of weather, if it rains, anything like that. We were going to put plastic down outside anyway, which now thinking about it, when the wind blew, it would have blown up and gotten stuck to stuff and made us really mad. So, it's probably a good idea to bring it in here anyway. But now we are certain that the conditions will be correct. This is what the frame looks like after the etching. It's pretty wild, I think. And it worked really, really good on the areas that Logan spent a lot of time on with the air needle scaler. And some areas up here, it could have used more time probably cuz it's said heavier um heavier rust, more time. But this stuff also sticks better to like heavier, more pitted rust. And that's not really an important area. When the body's on, you're not going to see any of this top stuff except from here up. This is like the most important part right up here and the bottom 3/4ers of these frame rails back and forth. And I guess the third most important are the inside areas that we're going to have to look at every time we go to work on this thing. The areas that bother me on the Escalade that are coming off and are covered in oily goo. Basically, that's what we're trying to prevent. Lessons learned from the Escalade are being applied to this much less powerful, much slower, yet just as cool old Suburban. So, we're going to wait for this thing to dry off completely. Let it warm up a little bit in here, get some plastic down, and start laying some paint. I guess our area is prepared now since the whole pan incident. We got the frame strapped down both ways. And before you raise concern, no, it is not that heavy. The straps crank and pull it very easily, enough to relieve tension off of the other one if they're not um exactly the same. So, we will be okay. And we're going to get all suited up because we read online that if you get this stuff on your skin, it does not come off from months or anything. It gets very um it's very very sticky. So, we're taking extra precaution not to get it on the floor cuz we don't want to have black dots all over the floor. First impressions. What do you think? It's a little bit goes a really long way. It does. Spreads very well. Yeah. Just did that up there just to wipe it off the brush cuz I tried to pour it into a cup and it didn't really work that well. So, we're just going to work out of the bucket for now. The inside channel first and then work up. That way, we don't get any of this paint that will never ever come off into Logan's hair. You know what this reminds me of? Yeah. When Spongebob and Patrick painted Mr. Krabs house with the paint that will never ever come off. Yeah. Except we can't just spit on this and wipe it off because we prepped this according to the steps. So, it should stay on there. Okay. How about a time lapse? possible while still getting full coverage. Working on the bottom. And then we'll disconnect the ratchet straps, lay it flat, and we can do the sides and the top more easily. Well, it's black. We went hard on this thing for I don't know how long did we work on it. How long did we work on this thing for? At least an hour. Maybe like an hour and a half. It really wasn't that long. Yeah. But we were just like just going at it the whole time. And I should try not to walk on that cuz there's still wet drips there that I don't want to get on the concrete. But I just noticed the spot is dripping. That's okay. Where is it dripping at? Over here. Oh, where I gopped on a bunch in that last spot. Oh, you did that? Yeah, sounds about right. That whole inner area was empty by the time you bailed out. It started wiping it off of you. So, I just went in there and got her done. There's still more we're going to have to do, you know, in some areas that were hard to get. But did you just pull it out of the garbage? Yeah. Running. Yeah, it'll be it's fine. It's fine. It was It was tough. I spent most of the time up here getting the brush into the nooks and crannies and well, I missed a spot right there. I missed the whole back side of the shock tower. That's cool. Cool. That's why I told you to focus on the front while I did all that. Well, I did. It was just hard. The whole The whole thing was hard. It just…