Rock Crawler or Web Poser?

I love the "cline-o-meter" on the dash! LOL I think you could have stuffed the right front about 1/64" before taking out the flare hehehe. Nice pic's!

-Brian

LOL I trashed three shocks in a similar way. KH

Doesn't everybody install the shocks with the cans up? Mine are on that way. For the record, at least one can is smashed, so this strategy is not all that effective.

Cal has an inclinometer?!?! Oh man, it is killing me to bite my tounge on this one... ;-)

You did say you were going to put up some pix of *your* rig, didn't you? Ask your mom if you can put some pix of it up on a website!

I'd seen various discussions about which way to orient 'em to access or protect the adjustment dial.

Screwed either way, I guess.

I'll bet somebody somewhere sells $150 shock armor to protect people's $90 shocks...

Skid plates for the shocks. Hmmm ...

I read once that some shocks, especially mono tube ones cant be installed upside down. They are valved differently for compression vs extension. KH

The Edelbrock and other inertial sensitive types pretty much just fail to work as designed when upside down. Not that the Edelbrock IAS is a particularly good rock crawler in the first place...more appropriate for a trailcruiser like the GC's.

Approximately 10/9/03 07:48, Kevin in San Diego uttered for posterity:

The canary is still chirping, we might be alright...

-Brian

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Oh, like, if you turn it upside down, then it's actually compressing when it thinks it's extending? :) __ Steve .

Stolen from Monroes web site:

Q: Can shock absorbers be mounted upside down (rod end down) and still function properly? A. Most modern shock absorbers utilize a twin (dual) tube construction; in order to work properly the inner of the two tubes (working chamber) should stay completely filled with oil. The outer (reserve) tube contains an oil reserve along with air or a pressurized gas. If the unit is mounted inverted (rod side down), the air or gas in the outer chamber can enter the inner working chamber, resulting in poor damping performance. Therefore, twin tube shock absorbers should not be mounted upside down (or on their side), with the exception of specially designed units that incorporate a gas cell, or cellular gas material, designed to keep the gas retained in the outer reserve tube.

Thats what I read. Now I remember since I found it again. But then again, what do they know, they only make shocks. KH

Actually, I never said that, as I don't have a web site. I might put one up eventually, but on my list of important things to do in this lifetime, "Satisfying Cal Wheeler's curiosity" does not rank in the top 10,000, so you'll just have to be patient.

And can we please get off of moms. After all, I just got off of yours. :-)

Joshua Nelson did pass the time by typing:

alt.binaries.pictures.autos.4x4

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huh??

That is the newsgroup we post photos at.

It is pretty much an empty group.

I have a couple shots up there from some of our RAMJ+W newsgroup runs up there right now.

Mike

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