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Jacking it UP! (no lbc content)

To: triumphs@autox.team.net (MR STUART BOLLEN)
Subject: Jacking it UP! (no lbc content)
From: DUHART JOHN <duhart@symbol.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 96 13:06:59 -0400
Organization: Symbol Technologies
Hey All,

        I have a question about how you people get your TR's up on jack stands. 
 
I have a set of tripods, but have yet to get the TR6 up on all four.  I 
there a method for doing this?

        Here is what I have done.  I start at the right rear, no problem I can 
get the car up high enough to get the tripod under it.   Now I do the 
left rear, again no problem, the nose almost touches the ground, but I 
can get the tripod under it.  Now if I try to get one of the front end up 
things start to get scary!  The back end of the side I am jacking up 
starts to come up off the tripod!  The whole car looks very unstable.  
How should I ba doing this?

        Also, do you use tripods that have a top that spans the frame member.  
Mine don't, and the frame just rests on them.

        If you have a good set of tripods, how stable are they when working on 
the car?  Can you hammer free a stuck nut while the car is suspended?

Thanks,
JHD IV


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