[V8] Chasing a unicorn/Koni shocks question

[toml99 at todomundo.com]

Well James from the list got a notice that there was a 5-speed in a pick-n-pull junkyard in Lynnwood(seattle area).   I called this morning and they confirmed that the computer showed a silver/grey '91 5-speed and the note was 5 days old.  Throwing my vows of no more V8 anything out the window, I decided to go have a looksie as the boss who had the ability to sell the whole car wasn't in till tomorrow.  I was envisioning a mint body car that ate belt/rack/whatever that caused it to get donated/failed to sell at Copart auction where most of their cars come from.  To horde it I intended to buy ECU/UFO'S/maybe shift linkage to give me time to chat with boss about whole car.  What I found out(no guarantees of accuracy), that if a car doesn't sell at a Copart auction, Pick-N-Pull gets vehicle for $100......I was thinking $400-$600 might sound enticing to a pick/pull place for a 26 yo car in 5 days.  I intended to buy ECU/UFO's/maybe shifter to deter anyone else for the day.  
Radar didn't look good as a healthy storm cell full of rain was imminent and the normal 1.2hr drive was hindered by torrential rain/absurd traffic because the world famous Skagit valley tulips were in full bloom and apparently this sunday was peak tulip bloom and the drive took 2.5 hrs(about as bad as it gets).
Anyway get there and you have to pay $2 to enter(supposedly for environmental fund that's gonna need more like $200/person.).  Went to where it was supposed to be and theres a '91 Panther black auto that hit something good and had no good parts left(except for the newish looking coolant tank that James noticed in pic).....It was raining and the unicorn wasn't there so didn't even look at the car barely.  I was irritated and driving away, and thought....hmmm 91 Panther Black, so I checked in with John Bysinger(list) who I horse traded the black car to him for money and his Indigo Pearl car that is sitting on my 5-speed.  He verified that is in fact THE black car I got from old lady that had throttle stick and kid that bought car from him totalled it quickly and took the good stuff and gave it to pick/pull.  Weird end to a weird day.

On a different note James was up my way and lay'd on me a set of Koni adjustable front shocks.  I read thru the adjustment procedure and PO had written 360/1 turn, which I take to mean he had it on stop #2 from soft(out of 5).  Who's got Koni's and where are you at?  Seems like you really need to remove shock to adjust, so would go with that, but wanted input if theres any as I'd like to do it once.  These are going on my 5-speed.  Not going in anytime soon.  

On a totally different note, but car related.  2004 Duramax truck has 2 injectors that are "bad", but weren't bad enough for warranty(gone).  Mileage has been down for years(hwy21/17), from when I got it and was more like hwy 24/19.  Anyway last week turbo didnt boost and huge cloud of black.  Fearing the inevitable injector failure as they've come down to $2700 for 8(from $3850), but book time is like 20 hrs or something crazy and it will be me, so tax day/truck issue..not good.  Being a work truck, the fuel filter that I try and change yearly/every other oil change only had 8K, but almost 2 yrs, so got new filter and noticed turbo hose had popped off.  Not totally sure exactly when I totally removed that hose(hard but not impossible to do filter with hose in way), but I'm guessing I never torqued the lower band years ago and it's been leaking and finally popped off.  Tightened it/did filter last week and today in 160 mile RT with diesel at $2.55 logged 24.5 MPG!  Saved money not driving Lago....Ha.  Anyway, it was a good day all in all, don't have the queasy feeling that I might have if there was a junkyard 5-speed sitting in my yard needing whatever.  Tom