how odd .
are you rough on things, or never lube them ?
for sure the top of the screw part is underbuilt some.........
but I lube 'em there, and especially the long threaded part down the center
of the jack,
and I use them carefully, but no problems ever.
Most of the time I'm using floor jacks and jack stands of course........
but  I use my 'quickie yard jack' 8 times a month for one reason or another
on various vanagons..........never a problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "levi hawkins" <b1levi@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: Bottle Jack

> ...howz about the way they break? I've had two snap on me now....not the
> arm into the van, but the screw.
>
> --- On Tue, 12/23/08, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
> wrote:
> From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
> Subject: Re: Bottle Jack
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 4:28 PM
>
> what's wrong with the stock jack ??
> - other than it's slow ?