was there an overhead console for these trucks?
and if mine doesnt have one are the brackets still in the roof so that way i can?
and does anyone have one the can sell me or give to me (haha)?
preferably the tan or neutral color.

my truck is a 1998 chevrolet crewcab

thanks
Robert

Hey Robert,

The trucks could be bought with an overhead console, but it's really rare. It's the same one used on the Suburbans, except it will have a cover plate over the front where a Suburban's rear A/C switch would be mounted.

Here's a tan one in a truck I'm trying to buy but the dude is slow-f'in me on the delivery:



Believe it or not that overhead console and compass mirror are in a '94 ext cab, really rare. It'll be interesting to decode the SPID label and see if it tells me anything about if these parts were original, someone may have just added them from another truck.

Now whether or not you've got the bracket behind the headliner for it to attach to, dunno. I'll probably know better once I pull the headliner down in my '98 crew, or one of these other trucks.

Richard

cool
anyone else do this or have one?

I got one and the bracket out of suburban for mine, but it's the classic squarebody, so is of no help to you.

But I don't know why you couldn't do the same. Just make a panel to delete the rear heat/ac controls.

those consoles werent offered till the dash change in 95...
as factory


you can put them in without much problem if yours doenst have the bracektry(sp) in your crewcab, the roof is double walled with a space inbetween at the mounting points.... just be sure to use short screws as to not go through the outter roof skin.

best place is a junkyard, i picked up an extra one for my xcab a few years ago to meess with fibergalssin in a guage and some other crap. think i paid 20 bucks for it.

cool man thanks
i will have to check the yards

Do you mean in the trucks? The Suburbans have had them since they started in the shitbox body style, '92.

Richard

the one pictured is 95 up... which wasnt offered till then in the trucks( x-cab or crew)... the92-94 subs did have them but they didnt look like that one pictured above , and since his is a 98 thats what i assumed the style was we were talkin about.

yes you are right i want the newer one like pictured

You 100% on that? I've got two '92 Suburbans here with that same console (except of course has rear A/C fan switch where that cover plate is) and had a '94 Suburban with the same console. All factory. Are you saying there's some significant difference or is it something I'm overlooking?

Richard

i could have sworn that they were only 95 ^. but obviously am wrong


that was 10+ years ago and ive drank since then.

Here's pics I just took of the factory console in my 1992 GMC Suburban ... My 1996 Crewcab Dually has a similar factory console ...

No sweat man not trying to be king of the details or nothin' just getting the info out there you can score them from a '92-up 'Burb. Biggest problem I see with any of them are broken-off doors, especially the one for the garage remote...and scrued up lamp buttons.

Richard

WELL HELL ILL CHECK THEM OUT TO THANKS MAN

Im runnin the overhead console in my 93'....i actually thought that was stock on the truck, guess i learned sumthin new.