GMT400 Chevy/GMC Front Clip Removal & 632ci Big Block First Mock Up! (Uncle George Suburban Build) 

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Sincerely I haven't ordered new merch in a while.. but back when I did..I was just excited to get my handwritten note on a hand cut piece of construction paper. With a strip of Saw stickers that you guys said you would add if we rounded our purchase or tip to 69 cents. Nothing but love for you guys please keep it up because you're encouraging so many to do better with their lifes.

This is gonna be epic. Excited to see it all. Also, if everyone had a relationship like yours, where you share a common interest and dreams, the world would be so much better and happier.

Finished installing a new shift cable in my ‘83 Camaro.. sat the car down off the stands.. the proceeded to back over a jack stand and tear hole in trans pan… Live and learn! Check twice. Lol. Love all the content! Favorite RU-vid channel! ✌🏻From AL!

This channel is so wholesome, "you literally walk along with peanut butter on your face all the time" you both crack me up

Making mistakes goes hand in hand when learning, you never forget what you did wrong. this channel just gets better and better, loving this longer video,hope you're both well, thanks for taking the time to not just time-lapse everything, and share your knowledge with us.

Rite on guys Charlie from Casper Wyoming and thanks again for sharing 👍your adventures with us. I get a lot of enjoyment out of watching you two work together. The wife is having a good cancer day, if there is such a thing, there's going days and bad days is how it works, anyway's, thanks again. You guys keep it up and don't give up and do like your sign says about being grateful and you will succeed.

"Conflict resolution" while getting ready to let the sawzall eat made me lol Added to the verbal repertoire.

This is a pretty cool build. Glad to see you have Logan more involved in it. She seems to be more comfortable in front of the camera now. Waiting to see that engine fire up!

First ever oil change by myself. Forgot to put the drain plug back in and started pouring oil in thank god i noticed all the oil on the ground before we started it back up. 1978 Chevy malibu with a 305 it was my first car.

Right on, saw the latest post, am going to enjoy this build series immensely! Right there with you & Logan as you do a complete overhaul on this 29 year old 'Burban! Love the ad-libs, 1 liners and banter you guys add to each episode! Always appreciate your video quality, 2nd to none as far as I'm concerned. Both of you rock as always! Thank you so much!

Took me a while to get to uncle George but I’m here and it should be a terrific series. Thanks for sharing and you and Logann stay safe and well 🇺🇸👍

Ah, screwup stories... Fun times. My best one must be when my sister bought an POS old Chevy Spark, and the radio trim piece kept falling off. I decided to help by just superglueing it in place, but the superglue ran and made a streak on the dash. Tried wiping with my fingers, leaving skin traces all over. Eventually got acetone which ate through the paint... I coloured it with a sharpie, but I still owe her a "new" dash till this day. Thank you guys for sticking to real, no BS, content. I'm not getting to every video unfortunately, but every time I manage to watch one it's like a breath of fresh air in the fakeness polluted world we live in. Much love from South Africa.

Wow! Getting exhaust on that beast is going to be a HUGE challenge,, BUT Mitchell and Logan will get 'er dun.

Great job, you both aren't afraid to tie into any project. Please continue to do what you do, the bantering is Great.

Dude I still play my PS2. I watch the older videos all the time after work when I’m eating breakfast. 👍🏼👍🏼

Huge props to the boss and her small hands helping ya with installing this monster. 👍👏👏👏

Always enjoy watching you guys work. Guaranteed good times. As far as rust on the 88-98 gmt400 trucks, i have 3 and they are not nearly as bad as the 2 99-06 gmt800 trucks i have. The earlier trucks had better rust protection and thicker sheetmetal compared to the 99-06 and later models. And as far as breaking things....its all part of the learning process. I have broken plenty of parts in my 35yrs messing around both on others and many times my own vehicles.

Missed this one. Like ya doing this build. Logan is a great person. Ya having fun is awesome. Ya like Lucy and Ricky. Good fun.

Hey now, that whole ice jug could be a dang good merch idea! And everyone watching let the ads play! Help them out, it don't cost you anything at all!

First big project, helping redo the cooling system on a ford van, managed to snap both bolts holding the thermostat housing, dad and our neighbor spent a months worth of weekends trying to get each of them out.

OMG, I lost track of my screwups. But you learn each time. I have learned a lot. ;)

I once stripped 2 out of the 3 threads for cam retainer plate in an aluminum block when removing them about 5 years ago. I don't remember doing anything wrong, more or less being unlucky lol. I had limited knowledge and tools, so when installation time came, those bolts were coated top to bottom in red loctite. That engine still runs like a top to this day

Been waiting for a restock on shop dog shirts excited for that. And every day is behind the scenes for you this is why I keep coming back. Excited for this build.

Cool shoutout to the stepdad..... they never seem to get enough appreciation. 🤙🏼

I swear my wife and Logan are the same person. Just the way I see Logan act on your videos I can always see a resemblance between their thought process haha. Regardless, loving the videos! Keep up the good work!

First lesson I learned the hard way when I started working on vehicles was unbolt the carb from the intake manifold before you start to disassemble it to swap out jets, floats or anything inside cause when those small pieces fall into the intake far enough you will then learn how to head gasket replacement to retrieve said small pieces hahaha!!!! 😂 It's part of learning

I was 18, my landlords brother had a workshop with a 4 post truck lift for his tractor unit. I had borrowed it to change the engine and gearbox in my 76 Ford Escort Estate. I had finished everything and was so pleased with myself that it ran, being the first swap I'd done on my own. The 4 post lift was for trucks and had a massive gap in the centre, the escort had a very narrow wheelbase and to get off the ramp without dropping a wheel down the centre gap I had to stay dead straight as I backed off. As I backed off, I looked in the mirrors and out the window, but I had no reference points as the ramp was in the centre of a massive barn. So, to get my bearings, I opened the door to look down at the edge of the ramp and kept backing up. As the back wheels rocked over onto the sloped ramps leading off the lift the momentum took over and the car rolled off the lift taking the door out of my hand as it hit the post. The drivers door was folded right back against the front wing (fender). This was my first car after passing my test, I was working on farms at the time so it wasn't exactly pretty, but I was gutted nonetheless. For anybody here from the UK, this was in 1993/4, so a Mk2 Escort estate was already becoming rare. But, as I discovered, Ford kept the Mk1 escort body shell for the Estate when they went to Mk2. So, I needed a Wing (Fender) and a Door for a Mk1 Escort, not an easy find in the scrap yards even then. I bought that car in '92 for £70 and the door and wing cost me £45 at the scrappie. I did my first welding on that car. We put old tyres and mattresses on the floor and against the barn wall and tipped the car on it's side with a forklift so I could plate the floor (This was before the ramp arrived). That car also made it on TV. I worked at Glastonbury Music Festival in 1995 and it was covered on the 2 big tv channels in the UK (BBC and Channel4). The car was bright Orange, with a blue door and grey wing so it stood out. I had a site pass so could drive through the site as needed, with a wobble light (amber beacon) on the roof. Oily Logan with a ratchet, kinda hot, NGL. Stapleton Calendar 2023?

Fun wrenching. I've broken all kinds of stuff on my truck while working on it. I dropped a fuel pump and a socket inside the gas tank. I also snapped the a/c evaporator off inside the cab. I'm kind of attached to this bodystyle because I used to watch Craftsman Truck series on Saturday mornings when I was a kid. All of that seemed so impossible back then but here we are, wrenching and building boom tubes.

I was 20 years old in '97, and the FNG at the stereo shop I was working at. I had very few tools, and what I did have was cheap junk. I was starting to install an amp and sub in a newish Benz 500SEL. Popped the hood to disco the battery. Grabbed the hunk o shit 1/4 drive ratchet and a deep 10mm. As I was reaching over the fender I somehow bumped the stupid release button, which dropped the socket on the top of the fender. Scratched and dented it of course. Cost me $900 to fix it. The Snap On truck showed up the next day since my boss was good freinds with him. I bought all new 1/4 and 3/8 drive sockets, ratchets, and extensions, and I still have them 25 years later.

Well, Mitch and Logan... I'm so glad you're starting another vehicle build... Uncle George... that motor is mighty fine too... can't wait to hear her roar! Very best wishes to you both. Very best regards. Stuart

Hahaha doing the rear end suspension on my bronco my dad (who has taught me everything I know on cars) clipped a brake hardline on the axle with an angle grinder n toasted it n I almost ruined the stock housing by going to deep cutting the stock shock bracket off! Fun learning experiences:) excited for this build!

I did the same thing with the transmission lines that go into the radiator on my first car when I tried to do an engine swap. Happens to everyone. All you can do is laugh and fix/replace it and enjoy the memories.

Automatic thumbs up before I watch the video. Love you guys. Thanks again for letting us follow along on your adventures.

Can't believe you left our great state of Pennsylvania. Land of huge potholes, rust, and very unpredictable weather....lol.

Logan is fantastic, and she fits everywhere! There was a time when I learned just as You are. Keep up the work.

My first 350 'rebuild'... bent all the pushrods... then was shown / taught how to PROPERLY install your rocker arms... good thing things were cheaper in 95...!

Love it, gonna be an awesome truck! Y'all rock can't wait for the next video. Much love from Kentucky, dude I've done so many broken things, huuummm. I was a service technician working on a washer got it fixed moving it back into place and ripped the customer's floor. Oh that sucked, having to tell them and my company had to replace the floor and it was alot! Sorry so long "3 hours later" lol. Y'all be safe, love watching!

This is really cool! I’m swapping frames on my truck soon to make it a short bed, pretty fun to watch you guys mess with something a little more beefier and a tiny bit newer than mine! Thanks for the entertainment!!

lol, yes I remember Logan's favorite headlight (left side) Yea, I'm an OG on the channel, your one of my favs.

Hell yeah just what I needed this morning 🌄

When I first disassemble my first Sbc engine I was 16 years old and had no clue, no one told me how to disassemble and be delicate with the crankshaft, we didn't have RU-vid Back in 1986, wish we did, but make a long story short I dinged'up the crank big time, and mixed up all my rod cap, I didn't know jack about mechanics, but that didn't stop me LOL....

Logan and the melted headlight that you had to improvise when you were at Cooper's garage..I've literally watched all of your videos and I do consider myself an OG.

Jeez the consistent phenomenal uploads just keep coming! Thank you guys for your hard work and dedication. I know I say it alot, but you guys deserve to be told this. You guys work harder than most people on RU-vid and seeing you grow is amazing. I'm so glad to be a part of the Stapleton Clan. Hope to meet you guys someday, you guys single handedly got me through my surgery recovery. Thank you. Much love from Ohio

Mistakes are part of success because succeeding does not come without plenty of failures you just have to keep trying and stay at it that's why I love watching you guys.

Logan fought the headlight on driver side of Uncle Rob.

That headlight could be logans new love...glad to see more awesome content...TY both

Offroad specialties is great stuff. I bought a solid axle swap kit for my gmt 400 1997 k1500 extended cab short box to use 1973-87 front leaf springs and it was a great fit and finish. No hole hogging or cutting anything except the factory independent front suspension mounts off and the factory front diff mounts. "That was a good one....I'm not editing that out" another reason why I love watching your channel. That's funny shit

I'm definitely gonna follow this build. Thanks for keeping us updated Mitchell & your pretty assistant

I very well remember the headlight battle. I even got to see it first hand on raceweek in Kearney. That damn mopar sticker still makes a guy scratch his head lol

Don't feel breaking things are normal. My first old truck, 1978 GMC square body. Took it down a back road and the back end launched and made a huge back. I thought I lost the drive shaft, but look in the side mirrors and saw my wheels wells laying in the road spinning. Apparently they where so rusted that when I hit a bump they fell down on the rear tires and I just drove over them. Such is life, sometimes your cruze'in other times your drop'in wheel wells.

The blueprint engine factory tour is now the top video on the channel, kinda crazy! #4 is the AMC tour video already....youre growing so much that i predict 500+k subs by this time next year. I will be an early 13k sub OG for once lol. Also i cant wait to see that Rolls Royce again

Uncle George is awesome! Uncle Rob was fun to watch. You inspire all us Tahoe and suburban guys.,👍👍👍👍

I had a '67 Nova I used to drag race, and before I headed to the line someone started talking to me. I closed the hood but didn't double-click it. So it looked closed but it wasn't. Finished talking with the guy, headed to the line, halfway down the track the hood flew open. Next day I called a guy I knew had Nova parts, and he sold me his extra '66 Nova hood for $40. He asked me if I wanted to buy a '67 SS Nova. It was a little rusty but he wanted $600

Happy to be here and part of the og crew. Can't wait to see the finished product. I remember the uncle rob headlight kinda laughed at logans struggles. I've had the same stuff with little things like that as well.

Y’all are awesome!! Keep up just what y’all are doing don’t ever change!!

I remember how Logan had to fight to get the left headlight in and you would come over and just pop it in, so this is very funny to see her struggle with the right one. That said, not many people have mates that are in something together like you two.

Learned the hard way on checking piston ring end gap particularly oil expander support rings. Didn't pay much attention and had a ton of blow by and eventually broke a piston. Tore it apart found the support rings made a wavy imprint on the cylinder walls and sure enough they were butting. Sucked but at least i learned with hypereutectic pistons and not my forged Pistons.

Cheers Guy's, looking forward to watching the Uncle George build series. Hope it's enjoyable for you as watching will be for me. Take care, be safe.

you are so lucky that Logan wants to help you I still need a t-shirt w a pic of logan and the text: don't cha and the back Stapleton Autoworks ;-)

You two are awesome. Teamwork. Fun video.

At least everything you take off is organized, it makes it much easier when going back together

You and Logan are awesome. Love all the content. Keep it coming baby.

While attempting my first oil change on my mom's 1994 Saturn SL2, I managed to take off the transmission fluid filter and drain the transmission. The transmission filter happened to look similar to the oil filter and was near the side of the engine in these particular cars. Additionally when the transmission fluid drained it was black like used motor oil. After realizing that I had drained the transmission fluid, I found the correct bolt to drain the oil. While the oil drained I took a trip to the part store for ATF and a transmission filter. In attempts to finish the oil change and what turned into a transmission flush I forgot which side the transmission filter went on. Due to my forgetfulness, I accidently screwed on the oil filter onto the transmission filter side. The filter appeared to have been screwed all the way on except I didn't see the tiny gap in between the filter and where the seal sinks into flange. Incidentally the transmission filter screwed on just fine because it was a little bit bigger. After topping off the fluids, I start the vehicle only to find ATF spraying everywhere. I immediately shut the car off with the ground now covered in ATF. I had to craw under the car to find that I got the filters swapped. Nothing like having to redue your job a second time while laying in ATF. The great news is I got the filters correct the second time. The transmission fluid and oil got changed and I haven't screwed up this bad doing oil changes since. On an additional note about the rust belt, I live in Ohio and the break caliper bolts seized up on this same car. While removing the rear spindle do to the caliper bolts, I ended up breaking a 2 ft 1/2 inch drive Snap-On breaker bar and alot of Craftsman sockets. Rust wasn't kind to bolts on this car. I was not disappointed when she decided to junk it after the timing chain broke.

Forst time doing brakes, before RU-vid tutorials, I didn't know about having to bleed the system. Luckily there was a dumpster to stop me before I made it to the road.

I bought a 1995 gmc k1500 in april 2022 for $1350 and named her storm bc she lost her windshield and right quarter window to a tree in a thunder storm. i love these videos and i hope that one day i can build mine to be this nice currently she is stock other than a torsion lift and 35 inch tires.

Broke the quick disconnect fuel lines on a ford fuel filter Because I didn’t have the tools and I used to screwdrivers to undo it had to change the lines afterwards. Hay Mitch you and Logan are killing the content lately we need a Logan shirt with One of her Quacky sayings

Of course I remember the headlight of Uncle Rob. Poor Logan would get so frustrated with that damn light I felt bad for her. Melted informed to fit

A couple years ago, I was changing the oil pump on my 90 suburban, has the same 350 tbi you guys pulled out of uncle George. When I was taking the pump off, I also took off the main bearing cap with it which shouldn't be taken off to change the oil pump btw, and when I put it back in, I misread the torque spec in my Haynes manual by one line and went to torque it to 110 ft lbs which is the big block spec. Long story short, the main bearing bolt never made it to 110 and snapped off in the block. I'm turning 23 in a month and getting the big mistakes out the way early I guess lol. If Logan sees or hears this story, I hope she feels better when stuff breaks 😂

Lol. If you wish this video was older..... well watch some older ones. Very unique content. Blend of historical and wrenching. Digging it so far. Only problem is I got your videos playing as I'm working on my cars. So I lose my train of thought when something cool comes up.

95-99 grill shell FTW! Just before you guys started in on the headlights I thought "Poor Logan and her GMC headlight issues."! So awesome to see it finally going in!

Great to see more work on Uncle George

Looks like a great life all the best to you and all your loved ones

I vote for 93 style grill . Has a classic theme into it

It's a good day when you post.. glad to see y'all. Keep up the good work both of you.

she loved the driver's side headlight

Greasy hands. Love it can’t understand how all these rebuild, fab guys always have clean hands. It’s unnatural.

I was building a Jetta awhile ago and just put a tdi in that I built. I was working in a small one car garage and put a jack on a cross member to move the car over a bit so I had more room to work on it. The jack slipped off the crossmember and put a hole right into the oil pan. I’ve made multiple mistakes working on cars over the years but it’s how we learn what not to do

Nice work! I am ready to see it up and running! You should do electric/auto cut outs on the exhaust to give you a nice quiet idle and then roar on acceleration!

Excited for this! There are my favorite body style for some reason. I like our 18 Suburban but these look cooler.

You guys are great. Logan. If you aren’t breaking stuff every now and then, you aren’t working. Those fittings are especially crappy. A lot of RU-vidrs skip showing the hard stuff or mistakes. Y’all use them as learning/teaching moments.

I was given a set of corvette manifolds to put on my squarebody, so broke one of the factory manifolds taking off. At the time it wasn't a big deal because I had the corvette ones, well turns out didn't fit. So then truck was no longer drivable. I ended up ordering a set of long tubes to fix it, so I all worked out better in the long run.

Taking the dash out of my bracket car, went way to hard in the paint pushing up and cracked a perfectly good windshield. Lol lesson learned. The burb is gonna rock, thank you guys for doing what ya do.

Logan loves uncle robs left head light

I have to also say I remember the early, early stuff even before Logan when your tool box was pitiful. Look at you now all grown up with proper tools and stuff.

Logan laughing about how slow the Suburban is to accelerate cracked me up.

These are the videos I’m here for! 🤘🏼Don’t get me wrong the nascar history stuff is chill but these are the videos I relate to!

I finally get a day off and I’m in the garage (currently 💩in the house) working on my shit and you drop this banger. Today is a great day.💪🏼 BTW I just finishing taking the clip off of my 1989 K5 Jimmy.

Wow, Red Dog brings back some NASCAR memories. Damn

Heads up in those bushings, if there is a gap between the two halves use something to fill the gap so the bushings dont have too much room to compress and split them. I had some poly bushings in control arms and they split in no time, machined a piece of 1/2” hard plastic to fill the gap between the halves with a little larger center hole to allow them to flex some then the plastic stopped excess movement

Y'all are making me wanna rebuild another Camaro... I used to have a 79 Z28 ttop clone(454cid/th400) and a real 72 SS, but it was a shell when I got it... The original M21 was in the trunk, the original 350 was gone along with everything else including the rear end... We put floors, trunk, rockers...basically from the body line down was new metal... Got a cheap Goodwrench 'special' 350 long block crate, the M21 was rebuilt, and put an old Trans AM, disc brake rear end(very lucky junkyard find) and put her back on the road... That was early 2000s and I was on drugs...! Literally...! I am now 64+ months sober from a 22+ years long heroine addiction and instead of cars, I have built three fishrooms, more than 50 aquariums currently, but am rebuilding to increase it to around 90 aquariums... I own & operate a lawn service business and am starting a fish breeding business (2nd year offically in business)... thanks again for another great one...! Keep up y'alls awesomeness and go enjoy some nature today...!

I was just thinking , poor Logan always gets stuck with those dang headlights lol. Sometimes those "easy" to install pin locks can really be not so fun 🤣

if i remember correctly ..it was the driver side light that she fell in love with..lol ive been waiting on this build ..i buy and sell obs trucks and im bringing a 98 shortbed back to life..love your channel ..cant wait to here that big block in that truck

I wasn't wrenching on anything at this time, but my friend let me borrow his mustang for a few weeks since my Camry finally gave out. I was driving back from college one day and another mustang pulls besides me and tries to race me, as we were racing the motor was knocking like a Jehovah's witness. Needless to say I got him another motor, he didn't care much and we still drive the piss out of it

Twisting lines and messing them up happens alot when working with old stuff. Ive broken a number of brake lines and one of the same condenser lines.

That whole headlight situation was definitely one of my favorite parts of the Uncle Rob build. As for breaking shit, it happens. I busted a pcv hose on my Durango trying to vacuum out the engine bay of critter crap and acorns, and I've broken bits and pieces on customer cars at work before, usually bolts, although I have managed the break a few wheel studs. Most annoying one was a 99 v6 Pathfinder that I broke the brittle ass plastic heater core on by breathing on it while replacing the valve cover gaskets.

My first transmission replacement (1977 Buick Skylark) started with me jacking up the rear and putting it on jackstands. When I started jacking up the front I pulled the car forward and tipped it off the rear jackstands. It was pretty sketchy, and I pay much more attention when lifting cars now.

Nice Clean Shop. . Love it.

Finally after months of waiting which I completely understand why. Uncle George finally makes his debut to enter the fast fleet of Stapleton Autoworks.

She loves that right headlight on Uncle Rob lol I remember when you blew that ECU up on the Battery lol