

Yes, you can now put a wood bed floor in your OBC truck, too!įor this new suspension special, we will be working with the amazing crew SaltWorks Fab in Myakka City, Florida. Once the suspension is complete, we will show you guys a super cool new product from BedWood and Parts called a retroliner. We didn’t want to make this truck unrelatable to the average consumer, so we went with an extremely affordable wheel from U.S Mags called the Bullet, and wow, they are nice! Toyo Proxes STIII tires will surround the rims and a new set of EBC Brakes will tuck nicely behind them. With a new suspension in place, the factory wheels and tires will kill the new look of the truck. No welding, no fabricating and, best of all, no cutting the bed! Using a very well-engineered Ridetech air-ride suspension along with Ridetech’s patented air management system, we will simply cut off the old suspension mounts and bolt this complete system to the factory frame rails. She’s a completely clean-and 100% stock-extended cab OBS GMC that’s just begging for a new life, and we have a goal to give her one.įor this build, we will focus on adjustable suspension and bolt-on options for bagging your ’88-’98 OBS truck. So now, we’re going to turn our attention to the OBS Builder’s Guide V2 donor truck, a 1997 GMC Sierra dubbed Project Artemis that’s sporting a 5.7-liter V-8 with the third door option and only 125K original miles.

It was an impressive truck that was built right from Day 1 and driven hard like it was intended.
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Additionally, we added an American Powertrain transmission, along with a full Ridetech coilover suspension system and 22-inch American Racing wheels. In the first-ever OBS Builder’s Guide, (March ’20) we focused our attention on swapping out the factory installed 4.3-liter V-6 engine for a Blueprint Engines 383c.i. A Step-by-Step Guide to Adding Air Suspension on ’88-’98 GMT400 Chevy Trucks
