It's great to see you branching out. By all accounts, the scrap metal business can be quite lucrative. You might need to work on your business model though, as it seems you're paying over the market value for much of these waste products.
I had a friend that did farm auctions for a living. He was an expert at bundling pure trash with something someone would actually buy, so that when it was all done, the trash would be all hauled out, too. No need to rent a dumpster!
The sandblasting was great, just a bit suprised to do it out in the open/woods. Same as people sawing their plastic window frames in the street and letting the particles just go with the wind.
Yeah. Though the sandman said it was recycled bottles, so "you can just throw it out in the open", but I doubt if it is a good idea to spread glass powder around, even if it is not plastic. Glass powder is not healthy to breath, like when Rich was filming nearby. Or dogs walking around.
@@tubularap As a guy that works in the Norwegian offshore industry, he would have broken so many laws. And my nr. 1 worry would be the breathing in the particles. The glass particles first as they can cut up your lungs and second is the paint that is blasted into particles wich we dont know what contains.
@@keithbroh5730 It's just the hallmark of the big three: Ford's engine will die, Chevy's electrical will fail, and Dodge's transmissions will rip themselves apart.
Fill the cavity with foam, trim it down a bit and slap on a layer of body filler. The most bush league level of body work. Next guy that comes along starts wondering why his "nice" looking vehicle starts having rust blisters and bondo cracks, that $5K vehicle really was a $500 rustbucket.
Seems like most troopies have been owned/lived in by skegs and bombed up and down beaches for years at this point. Good luck trying to find one without banana peels in the diff, bog in the pillars and duct tape over the rust above the gutters.
Rich, soon you'll have enough parts to start your own junk yard. My Hero. Great video again. Edit: For gods sake leave the duct tape, the thing might fall apart. Still a great video.
that old body is scrap but this new one looks to be only floor damaged, absolutely saveable! save the suburban :) ps. I live in a country where everything rusts bad, I have witnessed huge floor repair jobs
I’d be looking for Arizona or Florida vehicles. Not sure how Rich managed to buy a rust bucket from Texas. Lived in the rust belt for a good part of my life and would never buy anything from up there.
Just wondering: would fixing the body of the suburban be less costy than fixing the pick-up? Both are squarebody, unless you REALLY ABSOLUTELY want a pick-up?
@@MrFlakko30 A project can be changed when keeping it the way we wanted it at first don't make much sense. If that Suburban body is in better shape, then it might be a better idea to use that body. Kinda like what Jared at Wrench Everyday did with his Chargers.
it looks like you have either the original wiring or the donor 6.L wiring in the back. definitely save all that until your all dune. also that's a hydraulic brake booster & master cylinder in the back. (good stuff, look it up) Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the spray foam was to stop rattles from some big subs at one time.
It's sad but funny how everything you said about squarebodies is true. I have three and all three have had shitty steering wheel choices, screwed up wiring and janky mechanical issues. Great to see more work getting done on the dually though!!!
My friend here in Connecticut has EVERYTHING you need to fix your crewcab. He sells squarebody parts nationwide. He has tons of clean sheetmetal from southwest trucks and basically everything else from about 300-400 trucks he's parted out. Let me know if you want his contact information. Btw: the 73-80 dash won't work in the 81-87 trucks....so this parts truck isn't doing much good for you.
I've got a 87 square body at work, they bought it new many years ago for a work truck. The thing is neat but seeing how expensive they are now it makes you think of what could have been
Rich would be mind blown to see my friends warehouses full of 100% factory mostly mint square body's there all for sale if you ever wanna come to Houston.
Duct tape, welding.. same difference. Problem with square body trucks is they're on their 13th owner by the time you find one.. half of them were 16 when they got the truck.. that's the overall issue. Sadly they're really hard to find anymore
My squarebody was mostly welding wire and bondo in the corners too, however it went everywhere! It was a 1978 chevy k10 with a 350/th350, 4" lift, 3/4ton axles and brakes, pretty close to stock except 37×14.5 toyo mts and the much needed stronger rear axle the front was swapped from a Dana 44 6lug to Dana 44 8lug, pretty much just a hub and brake upgrade.
I really hope you keep the dualie whitewalls if anything, because there's a classic charm to it that the rest of the truck just ruins. I might be slightly biased
Every square body has bad wiring. Miss my 89 suburban like crazy. Shop out of state if you can get it shipped cheap enough I know of a perfect donor here in New Mexico. Gorgeous 89 also, my brother in law owns it.
I had a co-worker that had to get a lung transplant - the first thing the doctors asked him was "have you ever done any Sandblasting?" Air filtration when doing Sandblasting is an absolute necessity - glad to see it done correctly here.
@@tonyb8066 from inside that helmet I'm sure he couldn't see them - and anyone foolish enough to stand next to someone that's in full protective gear - regardless of what they are doing - should know that they are in a danger zone
Those Squarebody Chevrolets and GMCs were the bomb in the 1970s and 80s. I wanted one in high school, but I got a 1979 Chevy LUV 4x4, man that was the bomb, too. I LUVed it.
I did that foam thing on my old 74 trans am. Reduces the amount of mice inside. It was a bad idea in the long run, you can’t get that stuff out very easily, it doesn’t melt with heat or chemicals.
Soooo I was at Costco yesterday browsing the isles.. and came across a massive box of stroopwaffles and thought to myself.. rich and the guys love these things I've gotta get this giant box whether I like them or not. Where have these crack biscuits been all my life?!
I know deep down Rich and Stevon both thought that saying “the term squarebody was used by General Motors to describe your mom” would go over better than explaining the history of the GM squarebody. I also completely agree.
And this is entirely accurate. In fact, general motors produced the heavy duty versions of the truck, and eventually partnered with Duramax Diesels to be able to cart said moms of increasing size from point A to B
Nah. Goes home dirty and sweaty and underpaid. And after you’ve blasted a few truck cabs you’d feel as satisfied as someone in an assembly line repeating the same motions over and over. Every square inch of paint will look like every other square inch after a few days. Bless this man for doing the dirty work to help other fellas build fancy cars and take all the glory. I can tell you it gets gross inside that hood, and you reeeeeally don’t want to do it without that. Everything looks clean and easy on pooTube.
Watching these videos reminds me of my dad's old farm Silverados. He had a black square body he tore up one night while drunk and just left it at the old farm to die. I wish I had access to tooling and such back then to bring it back to life.
I don't know any square body owners like the one's in this video. I believe it's teens that hack them up like this. It's just because it's all they can afford at the time. Tape, Bondo, Flat black paint.... DONE!
All chev's are rust buckets. All my trucks were Fords and never had any problems with rust, plus I live in the northeast where salt are used on the winter roads. Richard, get a Ford 150 if you can find a bit of rust for your next build. Cheers!!!
Meanwhile in December 2023, 6 squarebody donor trucks later: YES, we finally did it, we welded all the good parts together and now we have 1 good squarebody and about a million spareparts and 2-4 semi-working engines.
That FL corrosion did a number on that truck. That injected foam was pretty crazy. The sandblasting segment was pretty cool though. Could that be an ASMR video?
It's cheaper to fix what you have with parts from LMC than to roll the dice on another one. All these trucks have the same issues and it would be better to trust the evil you know
Only one thing is worse than this: cars where only marked panel/frame plate relates to the title, everything else is welded to this panel from another body, stolen or insurance fraud.
There was a 4 door dually that sat with a for sale sign for months. It was only $2,500 too, it just wasn’t advertised. Looked to be in decent shape but I didn’t have room for that huge truck.
personally hate sandblasting and now want to do it again. but great progress on the truck and great to take it to bare bones. fix the parts truck as i like it more
High level/function Carney artists flex hard on that ol squarebody, got Inna magizine, then passed er along, lucky for that pile your the one! looking forward to u guys handling it the way you do!
Bought a 1964 Jeep J2000 15 years ago, solid, minimal rust..................no, painted so many times, it was the paint holding it together. Pushed on the rockers, felt like a sponge. Didn't even bother having it stripped. Bought a cab from California.
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Love how you double down on bad decisions. You make a mockery of the sunk-cost fallacy and often therefore make a pretty darn entertaining video.
Im going to second that.🥂
He needs to restore it to its previous lime green color.
@@ac7205 like hoovie
Reminds me of the chicken farmer Ferrari.
When life throws lemons make lemonade.. If nothing else.. entertainment is what ease real life reality..
It's great to see you branching out. By all accounts, the scrap metal business can be quite lucrative. You might need to work on your business model though, as it seems you're paying over the market value for much of these waste products.
Lol daamn
I'm sure Uncle Richie knows about a new application for Fe2O3 that'll drive prices up in the near future.
YT seems to be the best application for iron oxide.
The sandblasting was epic very satisfying
Rich out there just casually inhaling glass dust too
Give me recorder and sand blast on a loop
Hey Randy glad to see you find some time to watch 'Uncle Rich' channel.. ;0)
Yea, agreed, I think I would enjoy doing it...
Gotta love that rpb Nova 3 helmet with heat and AC👌🏼
You'll appreciate all that foam insulation driving in the winter though. That truck has a VERY HIGH R value!
And sound deadening!
@@FishFind3000 Maybe the truck had A LOT of 15" Kickers back in the day. Enough to bend the roof so it had to be cut off and replaced.
Add in some rockwool in the roof and you basically have a Thermos!
What’s very high R value
The R stands for rust right
sandblaster guy needs his own channel. that was satisfying as heck
I had a friend that did farm auctions for a living. He was an expert at bundling pure trash with something someone would actually buy, so that when it was all done, the trash would be all hauled out, too. No need to rent a dumpster!
Someone's treasure is another ones hidden trash.
Ha, I know a guy that does that. He’s got a big handle bar mustache and an old New England way of speaking.
The sandblasting was great, just a bit suprised to do it out in the open/woods. Same as people sawing their plastic window frames in the street and letting the particles just go with the wind.
Yeah. Though the sandman said it was recycled bottles, so "you can just throw it out in the open", but I doubt if it is a good idea to spread glass powder around, even if it is not plastic. Glass powder is not healthy to breath, like when Rich was filming nearby. Or dogs walking around.
@@tubularap As a guy that works in the Norwegian offshore industry, he would have broken so many laws. And my nr. 1 worry would be the breathing in the particles. The glass particles first as they can cut up your lungs and second is the paint that is blasted into particles wich we dont know what contains.
It's New Hampshah, Live Free or Die
@@tubularap Right?! Mr Sandman is wearing a full hazmat suit....
*cut to Uncle Rich absorbing powdered glass into his face*
@@bigrob029 yeah... I was really surprised :O
I came for the editing and I got what I wanted.
Cheers to your skills, Rich !!
To be fair, it is a Chevy; so having all the wiring out and exposed for when you inevitably have to fix it is just good foresight.
Lol!
At least it's old enough not to fight you!
True lol
Nah that’s fords 😂😂 my chevys wiring may look like a rats nest but it works fine
@@keithbroh5730 It's just the hallmark of the big three: Ford's engine will die, Chevy's electrical will fail, and Dodge's transmissions will rip themselves apart.
I'll never understand people filling rust with expanding foam... Found the same horrors in my troopcarrier build. Heathens
By the way there was something similar with the A pillar of the Model X, foam is added to reduce noise or something
The factories add in expanding foam to the frame parts in key areas to reduce noice and give a better thermal insulation.
Fill the cavity with foam, trim it down a bit and slap on a layer of body filler. The most bush league level of body work. Next guy that comes along starts wondering why his "nice" looking vehicle starts having rust blisters and bondo cracks, that $5K vehicle really was a $500 rustbucket.
@@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 not in a landcruiser they don't
Seems like most troopies have been owned/lived in by skegs and bombed up and down beaches for years at this point. Good luck trying to find one without banana peels in the diff, bog in the pillars and duct tape over the rust above the gutters.
Do you have enough good body parts for a dually suburban? Maybe fabricate the floor in the back shouldn't be super hard.
It would be really cool to see them both combined together the suburban with the dually rear.
Gotta love a square body with access holes
Rich, soon you'll have enough parts to start your own junk yard. My Hero. Great video again.
Edit: For gods sake leave the duct tape, the thing might fall apart. Still a great video.
I second the dually suburban idea!
that old body is scrap but this new one looks to be only floor damaged, absolutely saveable! save the suburban :) ps. I live in a country where everything rusts bad, I have witnessed huge floor repair jobs
I’d be looking for Arizona or Florida vehicles. Not sure how Rich managed to buy a rust bucket from Texas. Lived in the rust belt for a good part of my life and would never buy anything from up there.
I live in the UK. My truck isn't much better.
Wait til it's sandblasted. I'd bet there is a lot that is hidden.
@@marcuscoquer5958 Finland here, I know your pain
Just wondering: would fixing the body of the suburban be less costy than fixing the pick-up? Both are squarebody, unless you REALLY ABSOLUTELY want a pick-up?
Please just restore the suburban and sell off the truck!
His project is a dually pick-up square body
@@MrFlakko30 A project can be changed when keeping it the way we wanted it at first don't make much sense. If that Suburban body is in better shape, then it might be a better idea to use that body. Kinda like what Jared at Wrench Everyday did with his Chargers.
Dually square body suburban!
@@member57 this guy has the right idea!
I love how embarrassed Stevon was by those saw horses 😆
It’s just *not* the way.
it looks like you have either the original wiring or the donor 6.L wiring in the back. definitely save all that until your all dune. also that's a hydraulic brake booster & master cylinder in the back. (good stuff, look it up) Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the spray foam was to stop rattles from some big subs at one time.
It's not just squarebody owners. I own a restoration shop and I can tell you hack "repairs" know no make or model.
It's sad but funny how everything you said about squarebodies is true. I have three and all three have had shitty steering wheel choices, screwed up wiring and janky mechanical issues. Great to see more work getting done on the dually though!!!
That's some 90's chassis bracing technology at work right there with the PU foam. High Performance.
My friend here in Connecticut has EVERYTHING you need to fix your crewcab. He sells squarebody parts nationwide. He has tons of clean sheetmetal from southwest trucks and basically everything else from about 300-400 trucks he's parted out. Let me know if you want his contact information.
Btw: the 73-80 dash won't work in the 81-87 trucks....so this parts truck isn't doing much good for you.
Hope Rich sees this! Vote to the top!
I've got a 87 square body at work, they bought it new many years ago for a work truck. The thing is neat but seeing how expensive they are now it makes you think of what could have been
That suburban is bringing back memories of my dad's. His was light gray and blue. He loved it so much. He still talks about it.
Hope the previous owners watching this and feel ashamed about what they did to the truck 😂
I bet they didn't even know about most of it. It was done by the guy before them.
yes, ashamed and counting the money.
Rich and Stevon an undeniable duo.
Rich would be mind blown to see my friends warehouses full of 100% factory mostly mint square body's there all for sale if you ever wanna come to Houston.
the foam was stock, GM did it for anti-road-noise and vibration. driveshafts got it too for a few years!
Duct tape, welding.. same difference. Problem with square body trucks is they're on their 13th owner by the time you find one.. half of them were 16 when they got the truck.. that's the overall issue. Sadly they're really hard to find anymore
My squarebody was mostly welding wire and bondo in the corners too, however it went everywhere! It was a 1978 chevy k10 with a 350/th350, 4" lift, 3/4ton axles and brakes, pretty close to stock except 37×14.5 toyo mts and the much needed stronger rear axle the front was swapped from a Dana 44 6lug to Dana 44 8lug, pretty much just a hub and brake upgrade.
Just wanna say $3500 for that Burban is a steal.
The GMC Grill is worth $350.** -- $500.**
they no longer make that grill.
Other than EV DYI projects, this channel has revolutionized recorder scoring for RUclips content.
I love theses videos but what I truly love is the chemistry that you have with Steve.
I seen you on CNBC this morning!
I really hope you keep the dualie whitewalls if anything, because there's a classic charm to it that the rest of the truck just ruins. I might be slightly biased
Every square body has bad wiring.
Miss my 89 suburban like crazy. Shop out of state if you can get it shipped cheap enough I know of a perfect donor here in New Mexico. Gorgeous 89 also, my brother in law owns it.
Railing on square body owners, while he owns at least two of them. Another “Load” , great purchase Richie
This should be on Netflix so I can binge-watch an entire season. Waiting for the next episode is so Blockbuster era.
your logic is flawless, you deserve
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The sound is well done, the volume is consistent across the video. Thanks!
Exactly how you got to do, amass part's lot's n lots of parts economically as possible, you got the room, and the skills.
finally they decided to finish the square body. thank you! I've been waiting for it
Rich is becoming the "Next generation" of square body owner
Make a dually suburban!
You have two donor trucks for parts, now you need to find a square body truck worth restoring.
Rich: asking why square bodies are like this?
Rest of the car community: This is standard Chevy sh**... 🤷♂️👀
Someone took fix everything with duck tape a little to seriously.
I had a co-worker that had to get a lung transplant - the first thing the doctors asked him was "have you ever done any Sandblasting?"
Air filtration when doing Sandblasting is an absolute necessity - glad to see it done correctly here.
Except for everyone else standing nearby.
and the local environment/water courses getting filled with toxic paint particles
@@tonyb8066 from inside that helmet I'm sure he couldn't see them - and anyone foolish enough to stand next to someone that's in full protective gear - regardless of what they are doing - should know that they are in a danger zone
Those Squarebody Chevrolets and GMCs were the bomb in the 1970s and 80s. I wanted one in high school, but I got a 1979 Chevy LUV 4x4, man that was the bomb, too. I LUVed it.
PLEASE keep the door cards from the Suburban! Those fake metal panels were on my dad’s old ‘80 Suburban Sierra Classic, so great to see them again!
I did that foam thing on my old 74 trans am. Reduces the amount of mice inside. It was a bad idea in the long run, you can’t get that stuff out very easily, it doesn’t melt with heat or chemicals.
Was Stevon barefoot and grounded in the snow?
I actually inspect the construction of those Marco sandblasters as part of my job!
Welcome to square body family
I own a 76 Silverado C20 I love that fuckin 2 tone blue truck Rich!
Soooo I was at Costco yesterday browsing the isles.. and came across a massive box of stroopwaffles and thought to myself.. rich and the guys love these things I've gotta get this giant box whether I like them or not.
Where have these crack biscuits been all my life?!
These problems are super common on these trucks. Been rebuilding mine for quite some time and found all these same things
I know deep down Rich and Stevon both thought that saying “the term squarebody was used by General Motors to describe your mom” would go over better than explaining the history of the GM squarebody. I also completely agree.
And this is entirely accurate. In fact, general motors produced the heavy duty versions of the truck, and eventually partnered with Duramax Diesels to be able to cart said moms of increasing size from point A to B
@@boxeclectic their best idea, second only to the 4th gen corvette ;)
I'm quitting my job TODAY and becoming a mobile media blaster. Holy shit that man must go home satisfied every damn day.
Nah. Goes home dirty and sweaty and underpaid. And after you’ve blasted a few truck cabs you’d feel as satisfied as someone in an assembly line repeating the same motions over and over. Every square inch of paint will look like every other square inch after a few days. Bless this man for doing the dirty work to help other fellas build fancy cars and take all the glory.
I can tell you it gets gross inside that hood, and you reeeeeally don’t want to do it without that. Everything looks clean and easy on pooTube.
Uncle Rich, the right thing to do here is make a dually burb.
Watching these videos reminds me of my dad's old farm Silverados. He had a black square body he tore up one night while drunk and just left it at the old farm to die. I wish I had access to tooling and such back then to bring it back to life.
The Flutophone has never before been so important a contribution to a major feature film.
I don’t know why it’s so satisfying watch them strip the paint…. Love this square body content 🔥
Rich - filling cavities in vehicles with acoustic foam is a very common thing from OE’s to control NVH. Give it a Google!
The square body trucks down here in Guadalajara Mexico are mint . People really look after then here .
Richard, what were those browser tabs?
what does happen when you fart in a submarine?
I read this in Tommy Boy voice
the enter sandman just killed me 🤣🤣
I don't know any square body owners like the one's in this video. I believe it's teens that hack them up like this. It's just because it's all they can afford at the time. Tape, Bondo, Flat black paint.... DONE!
Rich and Stevon really need a tv show, and a new truck.
No tv show, the producers would only ruin it
This is there tv show
All chev's are rust buckets. All my trucks were Fords and never had any problems with rust, plus I live in the northeast where salt are used on the winter roads.
Richard, get a Ford 150 if you can find a bit of rust for your next build. Cheers!!!
The Grand Sierra looks pretty sweet. 👍
14:56 It is interesting there are A/C controls in the Suburban but no dash vents.
I swear when Rich put his feet in front of the torch heater it probably smelled like sour corn chips LOL
I have a dually square body crew cab, it's actually in great shape. Shame that I'm in Washington state
NOOOO!! Please keep the old engine!
Meanwhile in December 2023, 6 squarebody donor trucks later: YES, we finally did it, we welded all the good parts together and now we have 1 good squarebody and about a million spareparts and 2-4 semi-working engines.
That FL corrosion did a number on that truck. That injected foam was pretty crazy. The sandblasting segment was pretty cool though. Could that be an ASMR video?
It's cheaper to fix what you have with parts from LMC than to roll the dice on another one. All these trucks have the same issues and it would be better to trust the evil you know
there is nothing i enjoy more than rich's pain, thank you for this video update
I enjoyed that. The same blasting was cool. And it looks like there is a lot of interesting work to be done.
Rich! I love your channel, don’t ever lose that sarcasm.
"Uncle Rich makes bad decisions" is my favorite show on RUclips.
Only one thing is worse than this: cars where only marked panel/frame plate relates to the title, everything else is welded to this panel from another body, stolen or insurance fraud.
There was a 4 door dually that sat with a for sale sign for months. It was only $2,500 too, it just wasn’t advertised. Looked to be in decent shape but I didn’t have room for that huge truck.
Jeep filled the WJ grand Cherokee with foam from the factory for sound reduction. Needless to say they rot out BAD because of it....
personally hate sandblasting and now want to do it again. but great progress on the truck and great to take it to bare bones. fix the parts truck as i like it more
3:50 - I enjoyed reading all of those "Easter egg" internet tabs you left for us haha
Thinking that not all squarebody owners drive wiring nightmares and then remembering I drive a wiring nightmare
High level/function Carney artists flex hard on that ol squarebody, got Inna magizine, then passed er along, lucky for that pile your the one! looking forward to u guys handling it the way you do!
“Dogs are barking” always reminds me of John Candy in _Planes Trains and Automobiles_
The barn doors kills it for me!!!
Bought a 1964 Jeep J2000 15 years ago, solid, minimal rust..................no, painted so many times, it was the paint holding it together. Pushed on the rockers, felt like a sponge. Didn't even bother having it stripped. Bought a cab from California.
it seems that hoovie has a serious competitor in Rich and Stevon, they need to find a wizard
lol. Rich and Stevon are wizards or....... stand up comedians
They are so far past Wizard 🧙♀️
Rescue cars deserve all the love one can give them.
probably going to need to save it, those 3+3 are hard to find
I'm 41 years old and I still chuckled at the fart noises when Rich was climbing in and out of the back of the donor.
Two square bodies would be really nice to see restomoded by you guys.
Always major life motivational.... Salute to everyone grind, Motivations, accomplishments , families , goals.....
Personally I dont think thats worth saving. But im here for the laughs anyway!
It is worth saving for the entertainment which presumably will generate a good chunk of revenue. Otherwise, yeah, not worth it.
The foam can be melted with acetone, just spray that into all the foam and let it drip out.
Hey new cars use foam for sound deadening, this car was ahead for its time. :)