Date:         Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:54:16 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Dont do this at home ( I didnt)
Comments: To: Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@hotmail.com>
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And that's the van he's dumping because of the structural rust!!!!!!

On 9/7/06, Jason Willenbrock <pooncerelli@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> yeah he's crazy!  but any of us who work on our own vans have probably
> done
> dummer things, i know i have, i should be dead or horribly crippled by now
> jason
>
>
> >From: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
> >Reply-To: Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >Subject: Re: Dont do this at home ( I didnt)
> >Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:50:02 -0400
> >
> >I'm sorry please don't take offense but...ARE YOU CRAZY?!
> >
> >I don't even trust those things when I have to change a tire. You're a
> >brave
> >brave man.
> >
> >
> >On 9/7/06, Jens Jakob Andersen <jayjay@zorck.dk> wrote:
> >>
> >>Dont do this at home (I didnt do it at home, it did it at
> family-in-law).
> >>
> >>Took the engine down on 2 wooden pallets.
> >>
> >>Realized that I had a problem,had to rise van high.
> >>
> >>So in with some slabs of concrete, build some plateaus for the jacks,
> >>and use 2 standard VW jacks to rise the van high.
> >>
> >>IT went well, pulled the engine+gearbox out.
> >>
> >>Then when I lowered the van, I lowered it too much in one side (5-10
> >>cm or so), and went to the other side.
> >>
> >>When I startede lowering there, it creaked and cracked, fell down in
> >>one side - we used the tractor to lower the car fully.
> >>
> >>The spindle in the jack that had held the weight had just snapped....
> >>
> >>Dont do this at home....
> >>http://www.zorck.dk/Caravelle/vwdont.jpg
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jeff
> >86'
> >85' GL (sidelined and donating organs to the 86')
>



--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
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