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nadim
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 12:18 pm: | 
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What the hell?
What kind of a ride is that getting?
I need some kind of logical explenation? |
Slinky Disc0
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 12:31 pm: |
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Flex?? |
John Cinquegrana (Johnc)
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 12:35 pm: |
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Some folks on Dweb have been known to drive to the trail without shocks. Just check the Trails/Events section under Ringwood. How was the ride? I don't know but you can ask the person in the photo.... |
Eric N (Grnrvr)
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 12:40 pm: |
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Wouldn't getting out of your truck every 10 minutes to guide your spring back onto the cone/perch get a little old really quick? What a pain in the ass that would be. |
Rob Davison (Pokerob)
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 05:17 pm: |
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i wonce drove around without a shock in the one rear corner. (rancho blew out) it was crazy constantly diping and bouncing in that corner.
if they were both off i dont thing it would be too bad unless you have to to some quick moves.
rd |
Kyle
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 05:28 pm: |
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Cmon Eric , when you are young , having to get out and reseat the spring is very little payment for the coolness you recieve for not running the shocks.... Christ , think about all the other bullshit adults put up with from the freaky shit they do to the trucks...
Kyle |
muskyman
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 05:39 pm: |
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in college I owned a volvo wagon called the "bob sponge" it had been hit from the rear and the doors kinda all sagged. it had a bad starter for 2 years. when you wanted to go somewhere everyone would run with it like a bob sled. it always started carried 18 half barrels every other friday and went to colorado twice!
and we put up with it no problem
rapping a spring back...no problem |
RJ Clayton (Tozovr)
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 07:22 pm: |
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You will severly fatigue a spring by running no damper.
RJ |
Rob Davison (Pokerob)
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 08:14 pm: |
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yes, my good friend had the green machine, 3 on the tree 2wd ford f-150 pickup it too was a bobsled. after a few years we learned to park it facing down hill.
rd |
muskyman
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 08:52 pm: |
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yea parking strategie was key with the sponge.
in winter you could run it up on a snow bank and grab the parking brake.
come out later step on the gas 5/6 times wait 30 seconds for some to vaporize in the manifold turn on the key drop the brake handle drop the clutch
Vroom Vroom off you go!
sometimes when everything works it takes the fun out of it all.
guess thats part of rovers as well |
Rob Davison (Pokerob)
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 09:48 pm: |
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yep, winter was a whole nother treat for us... tires were bald except for the steel belts sticking out and the eback would freeze on, mna those where the days.
rd |
Eric N (Grnrvr)
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 09:55 pm: |
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Ya, Kyle, well see how young his hand looks the first time he gets it caught in that spring when he's re-seating it. That'll leave a mark. |
muskyman
| | Posted on Monday, November 25, 2002 - 10:42 pm: |
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and he'll bleed and all the chicks will want him
eric its a youth thing
rob,
yep those where the days |
Ken Dunnington (Ihwillys)
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 10:50 am: |
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Yeah, I had a solo bobsled start machine. My '83 Yamaha Virago. I tore that friggin' starter apart so many times in the first few years of ownership it became second nature. Fun part is you have to take off the entire side cover to put the friction fork back on after the starter is back in place. This starter was such a poor design it's incredible. Multiple major flaws. Anyway, I just got used to the push start with the thing.
I rode that thing year round for three years here in CO as my only form of mechanized transportation. Even in the snow. What a dumbass...
Then, on a bright and sunny June morning, some lady took it out with her truck, unfortunately I was on it when she rammed it, without a helmet, duh. Got lucky on that one, whew!
All this in my youth. Hey wait a minute, I'm only 32, damnit.
Ken |
Greg Davis (Gregdavis)
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 12:53 pm: |
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Hmmm, a new niche to fill. Quick disconnet shock mounts.  |
BMac66
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 08:16 pm: |
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People are going to think you're one of those dudes with the hydraulic suspension...the ones that bounce and flip flop at the lights, except you're doing 60mph on the f'way.
Bruce. |
L_Tilly
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 09:17 am: |
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When I recently replaced my springs / shocks with an OME-HD setup, I discovered every single original bolt was completely siezed from rust. After trying a lot of things I finally just had the original shocks torched off and replaced everything. Since I had to wait for some new uppder shock mounts to come in for the rears, I did the fronts first, then the rears on another day.
Driving home from the auto shop after they cut off my shocks was pretty fun. With the front shocks off the truck bounced more than a caddy in a rap video. I swear I almost stopped at NAPA for a pair of fuzzy dice. Once the OMEs were installed up front I drove it for a short time then had the rears torched. The bouncing was a lot more subtle, but still not something I would want to deal with regularly.
Lawrence [email protected]
96 Disco - Beowulf - NH, USA |
RJ Clayton (Tozovr)
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 09:27 am: |
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Lawrence, where in NH are you? |
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