Schumacher Metal Works

Schumacher Metal Works is an OBS specialist in Nuevo, California, building long-travel suspension and custom parts for 1988–1998 GMT400 Chevy and GMC trucks — the platform the big desert-suspension brands skip. Their own tagline is “Making OBS Chevy’s Great Again,” and the catalog backs it up: where Camburg starts at 1999 and Dirt King at 2007, Schumacher sells 88–98 long-travel as an off-the-shelf product with published pricing.

OBS long-travel kits and pricing

• Basic 2WD Long Travel Kit — $3,600
• 4×4 Basic Long Travel — $4,500
• 88-98 Hybrid Long Travel Kit — $6,050
• Pre-runner Kit — $7,700
• 2WD Coil-over Conversion Kit (with shocks) — $4,750 · 4×4 Coil-over Conversion — $5,500
• Upper control arms — 2WD Delrin $800 · K1500 4×4 Delrin $800 · K1500 4×4 heim $1,100
• 2WD Steering Kit $1,485 · Coil Bucket Kit $4,125 · Bed Cage (weld-together) $2,475

Prices as listed on schumachermetalworks.com, September 2026. They also make smaller OBS-specific pieces — idler arm brackets, 10-bolt axle trusses, leaf under-U-bolt deletes, K2500/K3500 lift arms, front leaf hangers and rear bumpers.

Other work

Beyond the OBS catalog the shop does CNC plasma cutting, custom fabrication and prototyping, part installation, and full ground-up builds and race prep for desert use. They also take on Baja bugs, Ford Rangers and UTV cage work, plus flatbed and big-rig hauler trailers.

Why it matters for an OBS prerunner build

Schumacher is the main reason a GMT400 long-travel build no longer has to be pure custom fabrication. For how the platform fits together — the 2WD coil-spring versus 4WD torsion-bar front end and what a long-travel setup actually takes — read our OBS Chevy long-travel guide, then the full Chevy OBS prerunner build guide.