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Re: [oletrucks] wobble/mecca

To: jelerath@home.com
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] wobble/mecca
From: New Mexico Jim <ADvent@thuntek.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:43:54 -0600
Try switching the front tires, side to side and see it it changes. Might need
balancing.

237459N@knotes.kodak.com wrote:

> From: W P. Fricke
>
> I've missed a couple of recent posts but caught this one which reminded me
> of a condition I have been experiencing but haven't admitted to myself that
> I might have a problem. At around 40-45 m/p/h I get a wobble up through the
> steering wheel. Below or above that speed and I'm fine. Whats the problem?
> Ball joint? Tie rod? I'm running radials. The suspension is lowered by 2
> inches with a single leaf set-up. Otherwise stock original geometry. I
> remember this condition when I was a kid driving a '58 Belvedere in the
> 70's. Ignored it.
>
> On the mecca subject, I say Grant you're in! Keep us on the straight and
> narrow. I second the proposal for a New York distribution center! I've
> already contacted a buddy with 20 acres.
>
> Patrick
> '53 1/2 ton 2-tone
>
> >Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Bias plies and bumpsteer
>
> >Grant,
>
> >I didn't have problems on cement roads, only on asphalt.  I also had 4
> >different sets of (used of course) bias plys before the radials.  IMHO
> >radials are the only way to go. :P
>
> > >I have stock suspension on my AD and had a real problem with bump steer.
> >I ...got radials.  Now I can steer with one finger.  No
> > >more two fisted white knuckle driving for me.
> >
> >It's funny, but I have no steering problems with my unrestored suspension
> >and fresh bias plies.  Not to knock radials, but could it have more to do
> >with the age and/or brand of the tire than with the type of construction?
> >
> >Durwood
>
> From: "G. Simmons" <gls@4link.net>
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Mecca 2 (long)
>
> Remember that any general partner can bind the entire general partnership,
> and each partner is fully liable for all obligations of the partnership.
> If
> you start talking about serious money (I presume the $17,000 acquisition
> cost is a fraction of the entire cost of moving storing and setting up
> business operations) then you need to centralize management authority,
> through a corporation, Limited Liability Company or Limited Partnership.
>
> Unfortunately, while solitications of investments in a corporate entity
> made
> to a large number of people is subject to Colorado law (fairly strict) and
> the various state laws in which each individual receiving an investment
> solicitation lives).  There is a federal securities exemption for offerings
> of under $1 million, but many states are much stricter.
>
> I'm not saying this to rain on the parade, but rather because if the
> investors turn out not to be satisfied with the way things turn out, they
> can use the fact that the securities laws were not complied with to get
> their money back, plus, in some cases, attorneys fees and exemplary
> damages.
> Sometimes they get the state attorney general to get involved and do all
> the
> work for them.  I've seen it happen.  For many years I earned my salt
> cleaning up the legal messes left when business deals went wrong.
>
> Regards,
>
> Grant S.
> 54 3100 (mostly all there)
> 54 3100 (mostly not there)
> 55 1st 3100 (mostly rust)
> Los Angeles, CA
>
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