If you are looking for hi-lift mounting ideas, here is another option:

http://three91.com/vanagon/wys/hi-lift_mount/DSC_1504.jpg
http://three91.com/vanagon/wys/hi-lift_mount/DSC_1495.jpg
http://three91.com/vanagon/wys/hi-lift_mount/DSC_1499.jpg

It is out of the way and out of the elements.

James V
86 Syncro Westy

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 09:08 -0700, Alistair Bell wrote:
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>> I have 48" hi lift too, won't fit up top in luggage rack.
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> Ah, thanks. Now I know.
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> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
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>> I put it
>> under rear seat, or strapped and locked to Paulchen rack.
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>> alistair
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>> > ---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> >> IGNORING the fact that no one has been able to yet tell me where to
>> >> find
>> >> the broken cable that connects the second lever from the bottom on
>> >> the
>> >> ventilation panel to whatever that thing connects to, I will post
>> >> another question:
>> >>
>> >> Will the 48'' Hi Lift jack fit in the recess in the luggage rack? And
>> >> what have people done to protect it from the weather and secure it
>> >> so it
>> >> don't bounce out and cause some horrible accident aftward.
>> >>
>> >> But I will be back with that cable question. O yes I will until I
>> >> lay my
>> >> mitts on one of them things.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Rocky J Squirrel
>> >> '84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>> >> '74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano,
>> >> Calif.)
>> >> Bend, OR
>> >>
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