I'm sorry please don't take offense but...ARE YOU CRAZY?!

I don't even trust those things when I have to change a tire. You're a brave
brave man.

On 9/7/06, Jens Jakob Andersen <jayjay@zorck.dk> wrote:
>
> Dont do this at home (I didnt do it at home, it did it at family-in-law).
>
> Took the engine down on 2 wooden pallets.
>
> Realized that I had a problem,had to rise van high.
>
> So in with some slabs of concrete, build some plateaus for the jacks,
> and use 2 standard VW jacks to rise the van high.
>
> IT went well, pulled the engine+gearbox out.
>
> Then when I lowered the van, I lowered it too much in one side (5-10
> cm or so), and went to the other side.
>
> When I startede lowering there, it creaked and cracked, fell down in
> one side - we used the tractor to lower the car fully.
>
> The spindle in the jack that had held the weight had just snapped....
>
> Dont do this at home....
> http://www.zorck.dk/Caravelle/vwdont.jpg
>

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Thanks,

Jeff
86'
85' GL (sidelined and donating organs to the 86')