--- The Stude's 2015 Changes Page 1 --- --- Suburban Push-Plate --- |
First before getting to the push-plate I need to back up some. The Suburban was bought to primarily be the tow vehicle for the MacGregor Sailboat. Moving the boat around was a real pain so I decided to mount a receiver for a trailer tow ball on the front of the Suburban to make it easier to move the trailer in confined areas.
I made an assembly with a receiver being part of it and mounted it to the two tow hooks up front and to the bumper also. The following pictures will show the build of that.
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The finished receiver and ....
..... in use. The boat trailer tongue has about 400 lbs of downforce on the ball and the mount/receiver and Suburban have no problems with that.
Next up comes the sub-frame for a push-plate that I made for my GMC. It was used for a number of years to push the race car off the line.
This sub-frame attached to the front of the GMC via some pins and receivers that were up under the front of the GMC as it has....
.... no front bumper. It attaches and detaches in a few minutes and with it off the truck's appearance aren't effected. You can barely see one of the frame tabs it attaches to down under the grill area.
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The push-plate above hooks over the top of the sub-frame and ....
...... is held in place by the "L" shaped pieces on the top/back.
It worked great but at the moment the GMC is out of commission needing a lot of body work due to the effects of the salt on the truck and general wear and tear with about 150,000 miles on the truck since it was turned into a street rod.
Above you can see the push-plate in use and ....
.... how it hung on the sub-frame. Since I'm not using the GMC now but hope to again one day I needed to make a push-plate for the front of the Suburban. Since I had the front receiver made it was a matter of making a sub-frame that would go into it and making it in a way that I could use the push-plate that I had for the GMC.
Above is the new sub-frame with the old push-plate above it.
Sub-frame pinned to the receiver and on each side are tabs that sit just off the receiver framework and push against it.
The push-plate can go on and off the sub-frame by just hanging it on there and ....
..... then putting two bolts through the top of the tabs on the ends of the sub-frame. They prevent the push-plate from jumping off the sub-frame. I spent a couple partial days building the sub-frame and about the same amount of time building the front receiver assembly some years back.
