Bent it like a plastic drinking straw.

The driveway is sloped so I have blocks under Mellow Yellow's tail end
to roughly level the van. Prior to blowing the driveway with the leaf
blower, I go to close all the doors and windows. The rear hatch is open,
and out of reach. I'm not real tall. So I grab the lowest part I can
reach, which is the skinny part of a strut. What can I say? All I can
say it that it seemed like a good idea at the time. I pulled down a bit
and the metal rod bent like a Viagra-free organ. I stood there thinking:

1. Golly -- I hardly pulled on it . . . that thing must be made of
pretty soft stuff!, and
2. There are none of these in town and we're going camping on Tuesday. I
better fix this or I'll be hoisting the hatch up with all my might and
propping it open with a stick.
3. I have the brain of a peanut.

I roughly straightened it out . . . seems to be working.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR