Date:         Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:34:35 -0700
Reply-To:     Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: smashed jack point
Comments: To: Richard A Jones <jones@colorado.edu>
In-Reply-To:  <48B4BBAF.1070001@colorado.edu>
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hmm do we need to bring up the plug your tires your self- kit debate
also-
i have a hydraulic bottle jack for situations where OEM vehicle jack fails
to be clear i lean as i go -
listen to older mechanics -
move through my bently page by page with wrench in hand
as if i were reading *Anaïs Nin ...
one of my favorite woman writers
yours
*

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Richard A Jones <jones@colorado.edu> wrote:

> 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
>



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Picking up garbage and telling people things.
Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw)
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