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Subject:Re: Help the chimp avoid getting crushed
From:David Beierl
Date:Sat, 4 Jun 2011 12:10:17 -0400

At 11:03 AM 6/4/2011, Dennis Haynes wrote:
>Normal shocks can be changed without lifting the 
>van at all. For the coil overs you need to lift 
>the vehicle and ramps won’t help. At some 
>point you really should get a real garage jack 
>if you want to perform under car repairs. What you can do is this:

Which is another way of saying that there are 
jobs you shouldn't do on a one-in-fifteen grade, 
and this is one of them.  Change driveways or get 
a different idea for shocks.  Or do some 
landscaping that involves a flat concrete pad somewhere...

Yrs,
d