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Re: Can you lift your Spridget?

To: Ajhsys@aol.com
Subject: Re: Can you lift your Spridget?
From: "R. C. Brown" <rcbrown@lucent.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:05:57 -0500
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Does anyone other than me ever wonder if Allen if playing with a 
full deck?
Bob

Ajhsys@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 9/21/99 11:45:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com writes:
> 
> << Go ahead and try it.   I'll bet a small child is strong enough to lift the
>  car an additional inch or so, which is enough to place the wheel onto the
>  lugs. >>
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> So you had your rear (of the car) jacked up with the wheel off.  I would
> assume you jacked it up by the frame, and not the axle.  Your wife came along
> and lifted the corner of the car OFF THE JACK high enough to get the wheel
> back on.
> 
> I can see lifting the sprung weight of just the body, if the car was jacked
> up by the axle, but not lifting the entire car including the unsprung weight
> of the axle.  Lifting the body wouldn't change the position of the hub to
> attach the wheel.  You'd have to lift the axle too.
> 
> The rear corner of a Spridget must weigh about 400 lbs. How much can you
> bench press...or did your wife clean and jerk that corner of the car?
> 
> Now we've started an "I've lifted my Spridget" thread!
> 
> Allen Hefner
> '77 Midget
> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport

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