Best prep is to sand the shock down to bare metal and clean with acetone. The disassembled shock is a lot easier to spray and the finish will be better. Assembled or disassembled, just depends on how picky you are with the finished product.
Many companies ( other industries) would disagree with your statement. If insurance companies are as conservative as described than 10% is a nice conservative margin. State Farm, being a mutual company, would tend to be on the conservative side of things.
I guess that depends on your definition of “minimum profits”.😀 4.2 billion net on 42 billion of sales plus 16 billion from asset investments. That was the last year of positive net income for State Farm. In 2023 they only earned 10 billion from their asset investments. At that level I am sure...
State Farm has operated at a substantial net income loss totaling over 14 billion dollars from 2021 to 2023. That being said, total assets for 2023 were over 220 billion dollars. In 2020 total assets were over 190 billion. State Farm has more than enough reserves (and growing) to weather the...
Have had both and never an issue with either.The CBR appears to be a more ruggedly built unit. Both can leak after time where the core is epoxied to the tanks but some of that has to do with how the radiator is mounted.