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September 11 mountain green

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krazykuda said:
I always ran the Monroe gas shocks on my daily drivers...
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I have been looking for new shocks, and I can not find anyone that is not gas shocks. Not that I was looking for it, it was more like sort of surprise. But, it is obviously several brands, Monroe, Gabriel, KYB, and others. But, I have no clue which one are the best for a stock suspension with stock or as close to stock springs as possible.
Then Gabriel has the Hi-Jackers, and Monroe has their equivalents. I had Monroe on my 1971 Ford Torino, and enjoyed being able to fell them up with air when I was pulling a trailer. Or, having a lot of stuff in the trunk. That was sort of the best of it all with the entire car. :D Then, to use the shocks as helping springs means that the brackets for the shocks need to be strong enough to take extra load.


Bill
 
Bills65Dart said:
I have been looking for new shocks, and I can not find anyone that is not gas shocks. Not that I was looking for it, it was more like sort of surprise. But, it is obviously several brands, Monroe, Gabriel, KYB, and others. But, I have no clue which one are the best for a stock suspension with stock or as close to stock springs as possible.
Then Gabriel has the Hi-Jackers, and Monroe has their equivalents. I had Monroe on my 1971 Ford Torino, and enjoyed being able to fell them up with air when I was pulling a trailer. Or, having a lot of stuff in the trunk. That was sort of the best of it all with the entire car. :D Then, to use the shocks as helping springs means that the brackets for the shocks need to be strong enough to take extra load.


Bill
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Standard gas shocks are fine. Gabriel or Monroe will work just fine with a stock suspension. Pretty much all standard shocks are gas these days. They just work better.

Like these...

https://www.amazon.com/Monroe-Matic...t=&hvlocphy=9007481&hvtargid=pla-812174910473
 
I turned the TV off after Denver lost....... again

Now I am just watching YouTube videos and goofing off.

Seems like everyone is watching the remaining games on. :)
 
zkx14 said:
Loosing some leaves here. Mostly the black Walnut trees so far.
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The problem we have here is that we haven’t had any rain in 17 days and none predicted for the next 10 days. The leaves that are starting to fall aren’t changing color, just turning brown and falling. Without rain, the fall colors may be nearly non-existent this year.
 
krazykuda said:
I called my mechanic and told him that my car started, but wouldn't move... He told me to check my tranny...

So I said to my brother, take off that dress and help me look at this... :steering:


Emo Phillips....
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:rofl::realcrazy:
 
Ddaddy said:
The problem we have here is that we haven’t had any rain in 17 days and none predicted for the next 10 days. The leaves that are starting to fall aren’t changing color, just turning brown and falling. Without rain, the fall colors may be nearly non-existent this year.
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We just had two days with rain, and they predict some through tomorrow night... :BangHead:

They were saying that it would be no rain tomorrow, now they've changed that... :icon_fU:
 
krazykuda said:
We just had two days with rain, and they predict some through tomorrow night... :BangHead:

They were saying that it would be no rain tomorrow, now they've changed that... :icon_fU:
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send it our way, we've not had but a tenth since July 18th. Dry dry dry
 
Ddaddy said:
The problem we have here is that we haven’t had any rain in 17 days and none predicted for the next 10 days. The leaves that are starting to fall aren’t changing color, just turning brown and falling. Without rain, the fall colors may be nearly non-existent this year.
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Was just looking at extended forecast. 40% chance of showers later tomorrow. Then nothing...
 
dukeboy_318 said:
send it our way, we've not had but a tenth since July 18th. Dry dry dry
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flash flooding in some areas... Mostly the north side just under Wisconsin border...

They are telling people not to use the water for drinking or washing until after the flooding is down and then some areas will check the wells to make sure the septic system didn't contaminate them...

We've had some steady medium rain for a while in spurts, but no flooding around by me... Plus I'm at the top of a big hill with a creek in my yard that takes the water down hill into the stream in the forest preserve that dumps into the Cal Sag River and that goes to the Chicago River eventually...

My creek is usually dry and only runs when it rains... Very rarely will it flow over half full, only when we get some good downpours...
 
krazykuda said:
Looks good... :thumbsup:

Don't let Trump see it or he will hire you to build the Mexican border wall.... :lol:
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I worked a flood control job 300 yds from the border at Tijuana/San Ysidro. What a hoot that was. The kids would sneak through the fence every night and steal all of our grade stakes. The important ones we had to bury a foot deep so they could be found by us the next day. :lol: One of the neighboring farmers came to my concrete plant looking for one of his tractors one morning. Not here we said. He looked further and found tire tracks that lead right through the border fence into Mexico :lol:. We thought we were high tech in concrete paving with a mechanized finishing machine made for flat work modified for slopes. The Mexican contractor on the other side of the border doing the same job had a track mounted paving machine
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Like this set up to do slopes. They were doing three times the concrete we were per day and in less time :lol:
 
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