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1994 K2500 Suburban Diesel Collector’s Item

That article is from 2011. An updated article would put them in the 25+ year old "classic vehicle" category. Complete with "good" parts that are getting scarce. One of the longest ongoing production runs of an engine: disposable or not.
 
Engine platform released in 1981- 40 years so far. And according to AM General/ GEP, it will continue until at least 2030 with the hmmwv. But that was before they were bought in (May iirc) 2020 by KPS Capital Partners. So say they make the engine just one more year then totally drop it... that’s a 50 year run.

Simply stupid and aggravating to not do the dmax suburban. Now they are probably focusing on an electric suburban SMH.
 
That 3.0 diesel is not available in a 3500. Y? Too tiny.
6.5 in suburban, 6.5 in 3500.
I don’t think the 6.5 in the suburban was bad. But basically that is what you get with the 3.0 diesel. Same power, same torque sam mpg. Because suburbans are over 6,000 lbs, that is enough power for commute.
But is that the power anyone accepts in a 3/4 ton diesel truck? No.
that 3.0 just doesn’t cut it for modern uses. Look at a camper used in 1995 and the campers now. People don’t accept not taking the triple axle toy hauler to dumont because it isn’t practical. They settle for a pickup with a camper shell.

You mentioned a tune in your ram. Everyone knows a tune makes the difference for individual use. Think banks 6 pack.

If GM would do the dmax and have 3 preset tunes. Mpg, middle ground, towing- even if they just had mpg or power mode. Cadillac makes the hot rod Escalade. Not like they can’t do the power because the platform can’t handle it. And it doesn’t need to be the winner or tied with the mega power 3500 dragster truck. Get it 75% of the way there and people will buy.
On the mpg side- 5mpg better than the gas engine which is way cheaper to buy and no where near as fast as the gasser- yet gm just doesn’t get it.

Instead they put out an anemic version that only 25% of the people actually consider and wonder why they don’t have a line of per orders. SMH.
 
Will L. said:
That 3.0 diesel is not available in a 3500. Y? Too tiny.
6.5 in suburban, 6.5 in 3500.
I don’t think the 6.5 in the suburban was bad. But basically that is what you get with the 3.0 diesel. Same power, same torque sam mpg. Because suburbans are over 6,000 lbs, that is enough power for commute.
But is that the power anyone accepts in a 3/4 ton diesel truck? No.
that 3.0 just doesn’t cut it for modern uses. Look at a camper used in 1995 and the campers now. People don’t accept not taking the triple axle toy hauler to dumont because it isn’t practical. They settle for a pickup with a camper shell.

You mentioned a tune in your ram. Everyone knows a tune makes the difference for individual use. Think banks 6 pack.

If GM would do the dmax and have 3 preset tunes. Mpg, middle ground, towing- even if they just had mpg or power mode. Cadillac makes the hot rod Escalade. Not like they can’t do the power because the platform can’t handle it. And it doesn’t need to be the winner or tied with the mega power 3500 dragster truck. Get it 75% of the way there and people will buy.
On the mpg side- 5mpg better than the gas engine which is way cheaper to buy and no where near as fast as the gasser- yet gm just doesn’t get it.

Instead they put out an anemic version that only 25% of the people actually consider and wonder why they don’t have a line of per orders. SMH.
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I would like to find a clean Suburban 2500 hull from 2001 to 2005 to transplant a Duramax/Allison into. Not into the plastic shit Suburbans after that era. Must be an 8 lugger. Does not have to be running, but must be very clean, always garaged. This is my retirement project. F the EVs.

BTW the current Yukons and Suburbans look like pimped out urban rapper vehicles on a good day. Rest of the time they look like a Hearst. They've lost their soul.
 
GM is stuffing the cute little 4 banger in the 2500 Vans...

Rolled up on one of the new White Suburbans today. I had to get closer to figure out WTF it was. I thought it might be the new HUMMER. No. Good thing GM had "Suburban" in black letters on the back ... Otherwise I wouldn't have known what box on wheels it was supposed to be.
 
My favorite Suburbans were the 1980s version. Other than lack of safety features and a few amenities.

Why won't they let me design what I would buy?

I tried buying a new 1999, but the dealer screwed us both by not jumping on it. He had an easy sale but was only interested in selling for the semi portion of the dealership.

I was busy working and by the time I got back shopping it was too late.
 
jrsavoie said:
Has anybody made a Duramax truck into a Suburban type vehicle?

I'm sure its been done, but I don't recall seeing it.
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I don't think so that way, but there has been plenty of D-Max drivetrains put into Suburbans, up to as late as 2018's. There used to be a place out of the Denver area that was doing it with the earlier D-Maxes into the GM-800 and 900 series Burbs, and a place out in SoCal that was, too. Haven't heard anything about either since about 2012. Occasionally see a mid to late 2010's show up on eBay at an outrageous price for the mileage on it.
 
jrsavoie said:
Has anybody made a Duramax truck into a Suburban type vehicle?

I'm sure its been done, but I don't recall seeing it.
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My neighbor around the corner, whose son buys salvaged Benz's and BMW's, etc, rebuilds and sells them, the son rolled his D-Max in a winter storm last year. While watching him over the summer pull the cab and bed off, I suggested to his dad that he drop a Suburban body onto the frame. He didn't, unfortunately.
 
Husker6.5 said:
My neighbor around the corner, whose son buys salvaged Benz's and BMW's, etc, rebuilds and sells them, the son rolled his D-Max in a winter storm last year. While watching him over the summer pull the cab and bed off, I suggested to his dad that he drop a Suburban body onto the frame. He didn't, unfortunately.
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Is he selling the engine and transmission?
 
Big T said:
Is he selling the engine and transmission?
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No, he put a new (used) cab and bed on that frame. The rolled D-Max was a salvage itself, the built motor in it came out of his first, used, '09 D-Max the son owned that got totalled two winters ago when he got rear ended at a Stop sign on a slick street by a Ford Focus doing 60mph. Sprung the box, that hit the back driver's corner of the cab and dented it in, but what totalled it was it bent the truck's frame under the bed. So he bought it back from the insurance company and dropped the built motor and tranny into a salvaged '09 with a toasted D-Max in it. That was the one that got rolled last winter. He swapped the interior out of the rolled cab into the cab shell he put on the frame, after he had prepped and repainted the "new" used cab shell and bed.
 
Husker6.5 said:
No, he put a new (used) cab and bed on that frame. The rolled D-Max was a salvage itself, the built motor in it came out of his first, used, '09 D-Max the son owned that got totalled two winters ago when he got rear ended at a Stop sign on a slick street by a Ford Focus doing 60mph. Sprung the box, that hit the back driver's corner of the cab and dented it in, but what totalled it was it bent the truck's frame under the bed. So he bought it back from the insurance company and dropped the built motor and tranny into a salvaged '09 with a toasted D-Max in it. That was the one that got rolled last winter. He swapped the interior out of the rolled cab into the cab shell he put on the frame, after he had prepped and repainted the "new" used cab shell and bed.
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Seems like a hard way to stay in vehicles, but been there with my son.
 
The truck's his "baby". Fixing and flipping cars is his bread and butter. There's an AMG Benz sitting out front he's working on right now. Just wish he'd do something about those Pepto-Bismol Pink rims on it right now!
 
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