Re: jacks

["Eureka Saws Co, Inc." <ambritts@ptdprolog.net>]

Been following these threads on getting a jack under a car with a flat tire.
My experience when working on any LBC is when you jack the front of the car
the rear comes up off the ground anyway. Anyone experience the same problem?
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: <Awgertoo@aol.com>
To: <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 09:36 PM
Subject: Re: jacks


> In a message dated 11/19/2006 8:26:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> thehartnetts@earthlink.net writes:
>
> Which  brings up an interesting question for those contempating the
purchase
> of a  jack:  What is the distance from the ground to the bottom of the
rear
> spring  when a rear tire is completely  flat?
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> And to keep things in perspective, it would also be interesting for us to
> consider how many flats we have had during our Healey driving.
>
> I had one flat on my 100 shortly after buying it in 1999 and then on the
old
> bias-ply tires that it came with--none since. I had another on my  wife's
> 3000 during the rallye at Conclave 2006 (with Reid Trummell as
navigator)--that
> after four years ownership.  So that's about one flat  every five years?
BTW
> I carry a scissor jack in my car and retain the  original pot jack in
hers.
>
> Best--Michael Oritt