

| Subject: | Re: smashed jack point |
| From: | Roger Whittaker |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:34:35 -0700 |
hmm do we need to bring up the plug your tires your self- kit debate also- i have a hydraulic bottle jack for situations where OEM vehicle jack fails to be clear i lean as i go - listen to older mechanics - move through my bently page by page with wrench in hand as if i were reading *Ana�s Nin ... one of my favorite woman writers yours * On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Richard A Jones <jones@colorado.edu> wrote: > I picked up a huge screw in a rear tire today on a busy > street in Boulder. I pulled off, looked, thought (only > a couple of blocks to my tire dealer....) and decided > I wouldn't make it. > > So I got out my jack. First time in the Syncro after > seven years and miles of back roads. > > Well, the jack would not fit into the rear passenger > jack point! It fit into the two fronts, and sort of > fit into the L rear. The rears had been smashed up. > In an instant I determined that I could never bend the > metal of that jack point open.... > > AAA to the rescue. > > Now I need to have those pulled down to open them up > so when I go 30 miles on 4x4 roads like Wheeler Geologic > Area--and have to change a tire--I won't be SOOL. > > The body shop that used floor pots to pull my skid rails > down a little can probably take care of this, but has > anybody else had this situation and what did you do? > > I'm just glad it happend in Boulder instead of Nowhere, > Utah! > > Richard > -- roger w There are two kinds of jobs in the world: Picking up garbage and telling people things. Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw) ---------------------------------------------------------- Explore printed work at: http://www.prliving.ca/ View the growing list of video work at: http://revver.com/find/video/?query=LastonLastof&search_on=owners and ... older work at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7135104650374818257 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3259745150182742364
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