My OBS 2door 2wd thread

96twodoor

Doo-ley owner
May 22, 2012
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Bossier city Louisiana
Figured I'd make a thread for my Tahoe on here . Ill skip showing every mod and give you guys the cliff notes . I'll probably log the progress on my dually on here also, Im way too lazy to update two threads.
Edit: Please forgive the pics , I'm really not a photograher
First Ill start with a little history on my 2dr. I bought it with the intention of just being my daily but when I ended up selling my OOBS I had at the time so it was my only truck I had to tinker with.

This is what I started with, it needed some work as you can see ( powersteering leaking , needed an alignment , incorrect mirrors) but overall it was solid.
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My old truck in the background on this pic.
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Got it home , swaped the mirrors and pulled off the digusting taillights covers
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Drove it pretty much like that for a couple months then once my 84 was gone I got bored and started colormatched (actully more like colorcloseing) stuff slowly. Some where in here I dropped it another 2in up front and 1 in the rear.
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Then about the same time I scored some 454SS wheels (not my first choice but its better than what I had) and bought a new grill and painted it .
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It still didnt sit low enough for me so I finally found some factory 2dr leaf springs and finally got it down to where I wanted it .
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threw a GMC grill on there for awhile didnt care for it much.
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Sooooooo off it came and my cheby grill went back on ,Also a cowl hood from another project that was about to get sold off.
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Which brings me to how it sits now , I got some black center caps along with black billet grills I had on it with the chrome headlights.
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Feel free to comment and let me know what you think , you wont hurt my feelings .
 
I was droolin over this thing at the meet, nice whip for sure. I think anyone who likes fullsize GM trucks would give their third nut for a clean, well maintained 2dr tahoe.
 
So like most guys I know that are into trucks I've always wanted a crew cab dually , plus I love oobs's so when a trade offer came up for a truck I didnt have a barely anything in I jumped on it. Plus it was already dropped when I got it .

The day I got it ,
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Can't really tell in the pics but the hood was destroyed by hail ( Im assuming it was off another truck , roof and top of bed are fine) so I pulled a hood out the junkyard and some buddies convinced me to leave it this color .....for now . I picked up a phantom grill also but im not sold on it, think a factory front end is going to go back on it one of these days.

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I havnt had my 1 ton of fun very long so thats about it . Been mainly doing boring maintenance and tune up stuff just to get it more up to speed.

I do plan on
-lose the HUGE mirrors (already ordered new 1/2 ton mirrors )
-hot rod flatz black the whole truck
-powdercoat factory wheels candy red of blue ( Im a realist , Im way too broke for semi wheels )
-overdrive trans (3 speed + 4.10s = 9 mpg highway )
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I was droolin over this thing at the meet, nice whip for sure. I think anyone who likes fullsize GM trucks would give their third nut for a clean, well maintained 2dr tahoe.

<<<----- this guy would give his 3 knees and 5 nuts for one
 
Wanted to update the thread , I traded the hoe for this 2 owner 78 rcsb with only 80k on it . Future plans are porterbuilt dropmember and Coys C-57s .Right now its completely stock.
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Any updates on the '78?....could have sworn I saw the Tahoe the other day. You trade it to someone local?