6000 lbs a pair? Anyhow, no problem using the under the front end of a vanagon, kitchenized or not. Anyone giving you grief must have a father-in-law inthe hydraulic jack business.
tim in san jose
>From: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET> >Reply-To: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: GVW of Vanagon? >Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:58:19 -0700 > >In my experience the wheels of a full Westy each carry about 1000-1100 >pounds not including passengers. Naturally if you load more stuff in and >on it those numbers increase. The kitchen does not add as much as you >might think but it adds it to the left side wheels. Stuff inside the >kitchen cabinets can add up quick too. The left front wheel was the >heaviest of all on one of those that I weighed. > >Mark > >David Maurio wrote: > > > > What is the gross vehicle weight of an 85 Westy with no kitchen >(Weekender, > > Wolfsburg?) The ramps I bought are 6000lb ramps, which I figured would >be > > good enough to hold up the front of the van, but I'm getting lots of >warning > > emails about using ramps under the Westy... > > _________________________________________________________________ Use custom emotions -- try MSN Messenger 6.0! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_emoticon |
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