Date:         Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:27:59 -0600
Reply-To:     Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
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From:         Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      smashed jack point
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I picked up a huge screw in a rear tire today on a busy
street in Boulder.  I pulled off, looked, thought (only
a couple of blocks to my tire dealer....) and decided
I wouldn't make it.

So I got out my jack.  First time in the Syncro after
seven years and miles of back roads.

Well, the jack would not fit into the rear passenger
jack point!  It fit into the two fronts, and sort of
fit into the L rear.  The rears had been smashed up.
In an instant I determined that I could never bend the
metal of that jack point open....

AAA to the rescue.

Now I need to have those pulled down to open them up
so when I go 30 miles on 4x4 roads like Wheeler Geologic
Area--and have to change a tire--I won't be SOOL.

The body shop that used floor pots to pull my skid rails
down a little can probably take care of this, but has
anybody else had this situation and what did you do?

I'm just glad it happend in Boulder instead of Nowhere,
Utah!

Richard