In a message dated 10/24/04 2:12:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM writes:
> The later Vanagons, which had plastic moldings over the jackpoints, > required > a jack that reached in further to avoid damaging the moldings. I am not sure > if that later Vanagon jack would work on a Bus, but I do know that it would > not work in reverse; if you tried to use a Bus jack on one of the later > Vanagons you would crack the plastic molding. > > and actually if you use a regular vanagon jack on a 88-91 wolfsburg/carat, or 90-91 GL then you will crack the fiberglass body moulding too.. i wonder how many folks who have added fiberglass skirts or bought a used jack to replace a missing one know this? i found it out the hard way... chris |
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