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The judges took their position by the Chevy"s front wheels. One stood a yardstick on its end. The other flat on his belly as if he were trying to read fine print on the tire rims. Standing beside his car, Sandoval hit the electric switch. His baby blue Super Sport began to rock like a hobby horse. Each time the car frame lunged forward, he applied another spurt of electricity to the hydraulic pump over the front wheels. Soon the front of the car was airborne and hopping like a caged rabbit. Higher and higher -- 4 inches . . . 7 inches . . . 11 inches.The judge moved his thumb up the yardstick . . . 13 inches, 15 inches. The crowd was on its feet cheering "Higher! Higher!" . . . 17 inches . . . 18 inches . . . 18 1/2 inches!Sandoval finally released the switch and the crowd roared.Not the world"s record, but high enough to win the three-foot first place trophy for "single-pump carhopping."

The tradition is said to have started in Los Angeles with Mexican-Americans called the "pachucos," best known for their zoot suits, long watch chains, and "tandos," or porkpie hats. To lower thier cars, the pachucos would throw bags of cement into the trunk. More recently, young Chicanos have taken to cutting a few links out of their springs or simply melting them down with a blowtorch. Others "juice" their ride by installing hydraulic pumps to raise the car frame when approaching a bump -- or a policeman. A car with hydraulics over the front and rear wheels is "juiced all around." Lowriding is technically illegal in California, which prohibits any part of the car frame being below the lowest point of the wheel rim.

Behind the hydraulics, the wire wheels, and the $3,000 paint jobs is "a life style, not a fad," argues Alberto Lopez. He is a correspondent and "account executive" for Low Rider magazine, a San Jose-based monthly that sells for $1.75 and has built up a circulation of 102,000 in just three years.

The magazine covers more than cars. Interspersed with ads for Tru-Spoke wire wheels and Andy"s Hydraulics ("Your One Stop Lowrider Shop") offering specials on whammy pumps and 2 1/2-ton jammer coils ("$349.95 for complete hook-up"), the June issue of Low Rider had articles about police brutality, lowrider fashions and music, soaring dropout rates among Chicano high school students, wall murals in San Diego, and Chicanos in Austin who fought city hall"s urban renewal plans, thereby saving their waterfront neighborhood from becoming an amusement park.

"You"ve got to respect the time and money that goes into these cars. When you get into hydraulics, it"s very sophisticated, almost scientific. Most of our cars are old because we couldn"t afford new ones. But we cherry them out to the max."

While most lowriders specialize in looks, a few go strictly for "lift." For a certain inner circle of lowriders, carhopping is an obsession. Hundreds of dollars and hours are spent trying to get their front wheels to jump an extra inch or two off the ground. Behind the Concord Pavilion are the "hop pits." There, hoppers prepare to compete: adjusting hydraulic pumps, tightening wires, recharging the batteries in their car trunks.

"At least half of the secret in hopping in is the switchman," Lonny Still tells me in the hop pits. A full-time car mechanic, Still is also vice-president of a car club called Street Life. He had planned to enter his lowrider in the competition but four days ago he was hopping on a new set of hydraulics and broke his car frame.

The mechanic elaborated on other ways to get around the rules: "Some will put lead in their bumpers or hide an extra pump under the seat, which is illegal. I saw a double whammy pump sneak by the judges today. that "58 Chevy over there had 12 batteries hooked up, which is 2 over the limit. First place is $1,000 and a three-foot trophy; people get a little crazy."

What"s the point of the hydraulic pumps and the tiny steering wheel if you keep getting ticketed by the police? According to Sanchez, "Hydraulics give your car class, and on a bumpy road or when you approach the law, you can get out of it. Basically, it"s to show off. The small steering wheels? I don"t know. More legroom? The standard joke is that the small steering wheels are so Mexicans can drive with their hands cuffed."

After a day at the Concord lowriders" convention -- 10 hours of learning about double whammy pumps, mirror dust paint jobs, and how to leave a trail of sparks that would impress the local fire department -- I wander wearily through the parking lot to my own car. Surrounded by a fleet of freshly waxed Impalas, gold-leafed vintage Mercuries, and chrome-plated Bel Airs, my rusty white Volkswagen bus is as inconspicuous as a beached whale. It was slow but not particularly low, which I suppose, given lowriding standards, would mean it wasn"t half a "bad ride."

In this article I would like to throw in my modest opinion about non-original spare parts - a frequent discussion topic among folks involved in the business of hydraulic pump and motor overhauling.

Although workshops can"t repair pumps without spare parts, they can choose where to buy the spares, and this choice is the key factor that defines how much money they make and how much "overhauling quality" they deliver. With so many suppliers and resellers of non-genuine replacement parts for hydraulic pumps and motors popping up every day, choosing the right "economic" supplier has become all but an easy task involving trial and error overhauls, pissed-off mechanics, pissed-off customers and even forever lost contracts and clients.

A mechanic, for example, being the person who shoves the parts into them pumps and motors, will always prefer genuine replacement parts over any aftermarket ones for one simple reason - they are easy to work with, they always fit and require no "finishing touches" - ergo his work is faster and simpler. Genuine parts last long and are hardly ever faulty, which makes the testing and adjustment procedures safer and reduces the risk of having to re-open overhauled units to a minimum. A mechanic doesn"t care about how much they cost because he"s not the one paying for them.

The truth lies, as always, in the golden middle, and I, personally, came to the conclusion that although most of the times you do get what you pay for, this doesn"t mean that you can"t get a bargain for a penny every once in a while, so a sound overhauler keeps his eyes and mind open and uses both genuine and aftermarket parts in a combination defined by his trial an error experience and the pump/motor application demands. This approach is sound because even in pre-recession years there were hydraulic equipment owners who actually preferred aftermarket to genuine in the pursuit of cutting down overhaul expenses. So, some clients will want the genuine quality, and some will want the lower price - and in order to satisfy both you, naturally, have to be able to serve both, but - if your goal is to deliver quality repairs, aftermarket part suppliers should be chosen with a cool head and on the basis of quality, not price!

OK, you say, so I am a hydraulic equipment owner, and I"ve got this excavator pump to repair, how do I know if I am going to be scammed with them Chinese spares? Well, there is no simple answer to this question...There is an opinion that if an overhaul is backed up by warranty than you"re on the safe side, no matter what parts were used - this, unfortunately, is not entirely true, because if you"re the unlucky hydraulic pump owner caught in the "error" stage of the new supplier trial and error validation process, you can get two different answers and two very different bills depending on how honest the company you are dealing with is. An honest workshop will admit their fault and try to correct the mistake as fast as they can, and if you are not the first-time customer you might even get the - "sorry about that, dude, the parts"re all **cked up..." confession, while a less candid workshop will give you the standard "commission errors committed by non-qualified personnel plus hard particle contamination in conjunction with the inappropriate oil temperature and deficient system design" excuse, and make you pay for their poor part supplier choice. So I"d say that warranty alone isn"t a guarantee, and would cast my vote for warranty combined with transparency - if a workshop has good experience with their non-genuine spare parts supplier - they won"t be ashamed to admit that the parts are not original.

Now, a separate word must be said about Chinese suppliers of spare parts for hydraulic pumps and motors. There are hundreds of companies in China that will sell you spare parts for almost any existing brand, with the quality ranging from superb to unacceptable and even ridiculously unacceptable. However with most suppliers (and especially resellers) the fact that you have received a batch of supreme quality spares doesn"t guarantee that you will get the same quality in the next batch. So if you ever decide to "go oriental" - be prepared for nasty surprises! (At least that was the situation at the moment of writing - December 2011).

My calling is more technical than commercial, therefore I am mainly interested in the quality of the spares rather than their price or where they come from - so please, don"t bother asking me for a list of "unofficially approved" Chinese suppliers of cheap yet extremely high quality spare parts for hydraulic pumps and motors - I won"t provide it because I frankly don"t have it! We do use some aftermarket spares from China, we did have our share of mishaps and disappointments with Chinese made parts, and our initial "Hurrays" got eventually replaced by "Boos" for most of them. Since our policy has always been to never let a client pay for a breakdown caused by a low quality part, a couple of lessons "learned the hard way" taught us that in most cases (not all, though) using Chinese spares in hydraulic pumps and motors is like using bathroom soap for filling cakes - looks and smells nice, yet still tastes like crap...

It will be a double whammy for Mongolia this year. Its mining sector, which accounts for 17 percent of the economy, is in shambles due to weak commodity prices. Now the farm sector is in trouble. The drought has wiped out up to 80 percent of its wheat crop and up next could be the worst winter in six years.

Broad-based inflation serves as a double whammy for the auto business, which has been in astate of fluxdue to high oil prices, shipping delays and computer chip shortages. Many customers are logging even more miles on their cars because they cannot afford a new or used one and have started to pull back on repairs – even the relatively small ones.

At Joe’s Sporting Goods in St. Paul, Minnesota, most of the outdoor gear on display – a colorful array of kayaks, tents, paddle boards and other products – was manufactured more than six months ago and at a time when the petroleum used to make those items was considerably cheaper, said Jim Rauscher, co-owner and president of the Twin Cities business. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year helped send oil prices rocketing to record levels, affecting everything from prices at the pump to key materials based on petroleum – and Rauscher is bracing for price spikes.