>It's not going to matter if you buy a jack from Sears, Matco Tool, Wal Mart
>or Harbor Freight, they'll all have been made in China and most likely in
>the same factory.
>Sometimes you just don't get any choices.

For those with money to throw down ANOTHER rathole (as if a Vanagon isn't
rathole enough), you can always spring for a Milwaukee floor jack. They're
actually made in the US still, I hear. Pretty good selection of jacks here,
too: http://www.hyjacks.com/index.html  They have better than "the usual
crap" jacks. Yet another product niche that has developed a wide gulf
between the "good but expensive" and the "cheap but low quality".

John Bange
'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"