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Disassemble Remaining Frame Components

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

What happens here

To prepare the frame for comprehensive painting, all remaining attached components are removed. This includes the entire wiring harness, which is mostly secured with zip ties, and all brake lines, which will be replaced. The rear bumper and hitch receiver are also detached. This complete disassembly provides unobstructed access to all frame surfaces for cleaning and painting and facilitates future modifications such as installing coil-overs and new brake lines.

Goal: Completely strip the frame of all non-essential components for thorough cleaning and painting.

Tools and materials

  • Cutting Tool Implied — Cutting zip ties
  • Milwaukee M18 Impact Driver Milwaukee — Speeding up bolt removal
  • Socket Set Unbranded — Loosening and tightening bolts
  • WD-40 WD-40 — Loosening rusted bolts
  • Wrenches Unbranded — Loosening and tightening bolts

What they say

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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

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