On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Allen Bachelder wrote:
> I don't mean to impugn the MGB jack. In my experience it works very well
> - providing you don't forget and try to open the door while it is in place
> (and I know that sounds dumb but I've heard of it). My concern - and I
...more good stuff I'm omitting about how sills and jacking points may
have deteriorated so that using the original jack may not be a good idea.
This reminds me of a technician I hired in Chicago who had grown up in
Africa, where he learned to drive on british cars. He had just moved to
the states, and bought his first american car--a well used mid 60s sedan.
I think it was a Ford Galaxie.
Anyway, he came in quite upset one morning. A tire had gone flat
overnight on his new old car. When he started to put on the spare, he was
puzzled by the largish hook on the factory jack, and could not locate the
jacking socket on the sill. Undeterred, he hooked the jack under the sill
near the affected wheel, and kept trying to lift the car until he crunched
a good part of the sill and the door above it.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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