GMC Safari resurrection

GMC Safari resurrection Here you can follow the progress, as we aim to restore a 1994 GMC Safari back to its full glory.

Are you ready?IN YA FACE MOFO's!I love them and that's what matters! 😎💪
18/06/2026

Are you ready?

IN YA FACE MOFO's!

I love them and that's what matters!

😎💪

And it's in! 😎
17/06/2026

And it's in! 😎

Today I cleaned the white wall tyres ready for the wheels coming back from refurb.These tyres have been sat here, patien...
14/06/2026

Today I cleaned the white wall tyres ready for the wheels coming back from refurb.
These tyres have been sat here, patiently waiting for about 2 years. I bought them from a fellow van owner who had just bought his van and didn't like the road noise they made.
When they were removed off his van, it turned out they were white walls and nobody knew! The previous owner of his van had had them fitted facing inwards!🤷🤭
Anyway, a clean set of, 300 miles old, white walls are now ready and waiting for the refurbished, spare set of pig nose wheels. 🐽

Still can't understand why someone would fit white walls inwards... 🤔

Finally completed the centre console refurb.Just a little wiring to finish off and then the fun of fitting it!😁
03/06/2026

Finally completed the centre console refurb.
Just a little wiring to finish off and then the fun of fitting it!😁

Perfect weather for sanding and undercoating the repaired pieces of the centre console. Looks like a grey jigsaw puzzle ...
24/05/2026

Perfect weather for sanding and undercoating the repaired pieces of the centre console. Looks like a grey jigsaw puzzle but hopefully it'll look spectacular when it's finished! 🤞

A couple of hours without rain today, so the other idler arm replaced. Finally no more sloppy steering.Still got the oth...
18/05/2026

A couple of hours without rain today, so the other idler arm replaced. Finally no more sloppy steering.
Still got the other shocker and torsion bar to do, but that's for another day. 😁

Today it didn't rain!Today was a spectacular day!Drivers side shocker done the other day, today was idler arm replacemen...
15/05/2026

Today it didn't rain!
Today was a spectacular day!
Drivers side shocker done the other day, today was idler arm replacement and the another try at removing the broken torsion bar.
Well it's done!
One side complete and Blue is mobile again.
Just the other side to do next, but what a relief and a massive sense of achievement!

Update!Saturday someone reached out and offered a pair of torsion bars, keys, adjusters, bolts etc. I couldn't believe m...
12/05/2026

Update!
Saturday someone reached out and offered a pair of torsion bars, keys, adjusters, bolts etc. I couldn't believe my luck!
He removed them on Saturday, sent them Monday from the Isle of White and they arrived this morning (Tuesday).😱
That's what happens when vanners rally together and help each other out. I will be forever grateful to him for selling me his gold dusted rocking horse sh*te.

I've learnt a lot about torsion bars whilst searching for the seemingly impossible. For example, gen1 use a bar adapter, but if you get the key with the gen2 bar, you can use that one.
As I'd already bought new shockers and have had new idler arms waiting for the right time, it may as well all get done at the same time. So yesterday it began. New shock absorber fitted on the driver's side.
I just wish this crap weather would sod off though.

Ok guys and gals. Time to step up coz this time I'm looking for rocking horse sh*te and really need all the help I can g...
05/05/2026

Ok guys and gals. Time to step up coz this time I'm looking for rocking horse sh*te and really need all the help I can get!😞

1994, Gen1, AWD, GMC Safari, drivers side torsion bar.

Get asking around people.... Please 🙏

Update on the latest torsion bar saga....It's broke. 😭Front end is free, back end is snapped off inside the adapter and ...
04/05/2026

Update on the latest torsion bar saga....
It's broke. 😭
Front end is free, back end is snapped off inside the adapter and the adapter has 32 years worth of muck n rust refusing to let go.

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