This site is devoted to Lowriding, the people, the rides and hydraulics before it became too commercialized/mass produced. The square dump was one of the early most dependable valves used in the early Lowriders.  You don't see the original valves around much these days, if you knew what you were looking at, you'd know that it was original old school. Squaredump.com symbolizes those early Golden or Old School time period. This site is devoted to early Lowriders, hydraulics and to the people that made it happen.

The middle 70's is considered to be a time Lowriding was starting to get big. In that time period shops began opening and selling ready-made parts. There was a time when there was no Reds, Andy's, Otto or other hydraulic shops/stores. Then came Lowrider Magazine. Around the middle 70's was another beginning; hopping contests were starting, shops with budgets were entering contests.  New and improved parts were being made to work on industrial hydraulic parts. Aircraft hydraulics were being replaced with industrial hydraulics. Then in the late 80s it appears a new generation was cropping up. Different attitudes of what a Lowrider was or could be or should be. New and improved hydraulics, worldwide attention, mega shows, coast-to-coast hydraulic shops. Things changed, now if you wanted to Lowride, you pull out your wallet, throw down some cash, pick your car up in a day or two and you're riding. A rider never even needed to get a bit of grease under the finger nails. Then came the cars that would get stuck standing and of course cars flipping over. Lowriders were never meant to be disposable. Where’s the love. We used to stand out as it took work to get there. Now anyone can do what we did, cheaper, faster and easier. Seems like something is missing or just gone away.

There was a time when you had to really work at getting your car lifted. You had to take a long drive to get what you wanted. There were no shops to do cut outs, home made cups and donuts, whining sounds of pumps, beat up aircraft cylinders, hardware store plumbing, vise-grips, baking pans. Trunks that were full of leaking beat up parts all sliding around, those were the days. The new shops opening up came as a huge benefit in a lot of ways. No longer were we dependant on Palleys or aircraft surplus stores for our parts. Yet the surplus stores were and still are a great place to spend some time and look for parts.   

You are welcome to add your input, pictures, wants ads, setups, stories, events, or just about anything related to Lowriders, hydraulics and the pioneers around this time period before the 90’s. Aircraft hydraulics were a large part of early Lowriding and today aircraft hydraulic parts have come back alive. A new generation has taken up where most of us in the 70’s let go.