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Subject:Re: stands vs ramps
From:Paul & Becky Oliver
Date:Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:53:22 -0600

That's build not bill

Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul & Becky Oliver" <oliver8@TDS.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: stands vs ramps

> I've taken the time to bill yet another set of ramps (keep selling them
> after someone else sees them. These lift my vanagon 16" off the ground,
> giving me all the clearance I need. I have wielded "stops" to keep from
> going to far. I made them out of an old trailer home frame. A 1/4"X 12" I
> beam.
>
> Heavy but safe, I plan on building a shop next summer and will put in a
pit
> as well as a lift. After driving OTR for so many years, where we used a
pit
> to most of the vehicle's service, I find it hard to get along without one.
>
> Paul
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Morgan" <JM060356@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: stands vs ramps
>
>
> > I only use ramps. I launched my brother's toyota cresida over a set of
> ramps.
> > scared the dickens out of me . tossed them in the dumpster. Still hear
> about
> > it and it has been 10 years.
> > What i do with the van is I use two jacks one at each point ( the
factory
> > crank type)
> > takes anout two min to get it on the stands .
> >
> >
> > Jim Morgan
> > 86Gl auto "breadbox" 214,000,0 miles
> > Westlake,Ohio
> > jm060356@aol.com
>

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