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Mark T

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  1. I had a couple Canadian Superliners. They started life as big tractors,and were converted to dump trucks. The one was on 20" rubber and had Hendrickson in the rear and taper leaf in the front (steer) .  I changed it to 22" on the drives and put multi leaf in the front to level it out. Ended up with the same thing you have going on.  I was lucky though as the two trucks were quite alike and I just ordered those arms by the VIN of the one already like I changed the other on to.  Maybe something like that can simplify it if you have a VIN ?  Those ones (top curved around levers to the drag links) aren't as critical as the ones on the tie rod. Big exaggerated angles will likely wear ball and socket joints fast and it may lose turning radius in weird ways (more one direction than the other) Usually they're sorta flat  through the tavel of the suspension (top ones) or the drag link'll be bent in such a way to drop the level of it. I think the RWs were straight ?  The ones on the tie rod ? if they're way off, it could make the truck steer lousy. (Paul may have worded it better than me) Like when you need it to turn it might be less than ideal. (loose grave, wet pavement)  like when you need every drop to make a turn with a lowboy ???  Be a pain in the neck if you go through swap'n the axle to fix one problem and discover doing so created another one.  

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  2. They can put up a fight coming out. The levers for the tie rod are the ones. They make the ackerman angles according to the wheelbase. Depending if they're different and how different, the truck may not behave ideally as far as steering. It'll end up oversteering or understeering , wanting to fight you on a wet road or something fun like that. OR ???  they may be the same thing as the truck needs IDK. There's some geometry engineered into those things.

  3. 40 minutes ago, mowerman said:

    My company actually got fined at that time because get this they said our coverage was way too good … gods honest truth I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.. so after fedex adjusted it to meet government  requirements… it wasn’t worth a shit

    And just like that, Bob learned first hand what (equity) was.  

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  4. 3 hours ago, 67RModel said:

    You likely missed the point....

    Oh, I get the point. Those in charge prove the fact that with enough thought you can rationalize anything. Now if that's good or bad ????  whole other story.

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  5. 8 hours ago, 67RModel said:

    Obama might be the worst president in modern US history. I certainly would not use his actions to validate anything. It was wrong then and is wrong now. It has nothing to do with Obama, Trump. Or Democrat, Republican. Or Left, Right. The fact that a president can unilaterally bomb another sovereign nation and kill its citizens without Congress' (the people's) consent is heinously troublesome. I don't think US foreign policy is righteous. In fact on the contrary, probably for about the last 80 years US foreign policy has been overall terrible, and has not been in the best interest of the American citizen. I think there is ample evidence to support this. Murder hornets are more of a threat to US citizens than Iran is. But we just spent half a billion dollars leveling sections of their country for our safety. Anecdotally I fell less safe now than I did last Friday afternoon. Not by much but the feeling is there. I think the US meddling in Israel's matters is not in the US citizen's best interest.

     

    It matters not but for the record it was more than 75 according to General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As I understand it the third site was leveled using dozens of cruise missiles launched from submarines due to it not being a fortified, underground site.

    Pentagon reveals how B-2 bombers struck Iran nuclear sites in mission dubbed "Operation Midnight Hammer" - CBS News

    🤣 yes...because congress does so much only after the people's consent. 

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  6. 8 hours ago, other dog said:

    "So, have you cooked anything on the Blackstone yet?"

    "Yeah, 2 fingers!" 🤣 

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    If they do bust, better not waste any time dressing them.    on a side note....... TJC is laugh'n about it  ( most are think'n it's too early ) 😇

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  7. 1 hour ago, mowerman said:

    good on mark,,,it seems everytime i see her its somwhere where i cant hear the TV...but ive wondered why she is still wearing that getup..that i understand this is what they make them wear over there shake the slave look,,,,why walk around  like a Cambodian refugee??and who the hell hired her and why?...lol.bob

    Exactly. She can look like her heritage and display it and nobody is supposed to say anything. Fetterman ???  He's a  lightning rod for comments on his apparel. I think he has much more intent to do the right thing than she ever could.

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  8. 26 minutes ago, other dog said:

    Kinda like that other stupid bish, Whoopi. She's a black American woman, she's a millionaire probably many times over, and she says it's better to be a woman in Iran than to be a black woman in America. I wish she would relocate her ass there.

    Ted danson should be real proud of himself.   

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