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Subject:Re: Bay window & Vanagon jack points?
Date:Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:57:23 EDT

In a message dated 10/24/04 2:12:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM writes:

> The later Vanagons, which had plastic moldings over the jackpoints,
> required
> a jack that reached in further to avoid damaging the moldings. I am not sure
> if that later Vanagon jack would work on a Bus, but I do know that it would
> not work in reverse; if you tried to use a Bus jack on one of the later
> Vanagons you would crack the plastic molding.
>
>

and actually if you use a regular vanagon jack on a 88-91 wolfsburg/carat, or
90-91 GL then you will crack the fiberglass body moulding too..   i wonder
how many folks who have added fiberglass skirts or bought a used jack to replace
a missing one know this?  i found it out the hard way...

chris