Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:41:20 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: tire jack suggestions for 88 GL
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was gonna say the same thing.
two important 'accessories' to have are a piece of thick plywood, like 10 X
11 inches say, for using in soft stuff like mud or stand,
and also, a good tire wedge.
Some cars even have a nice little fold up one in their tool kit - like old
toyota's. I get those out of junkyards, useful on a slope for sure.
and one time I had a despertae bang bang bang in the right happen on I-80 in
the middle of Nevada ..like a tire chain broke and was slamming against the
side of the van ...but noi tire chains on of course.
So I had to stop right there on the side of the freeway with cars going by
at 80.
I needed to have it jacked up on one rear wheel with the parking brake off,
and in neutral.
I couldn't do that without a something to wedge under a tire, or even two.
I used a ski boot.
but a tire wedge of some sort .......I put one under the back seat of every
vanagon I rescue and refurbish ...gotta have one.
that noise btw......dry outer CV joint I think. And that highway, a few
time dronong along for hours on I-80 across Nevada I had noises from
vibrations just 'develope' and get worse and worse.
In that incident, the wheel turned smoothly , I told the cops that stopped
in about 5 mintues 'everythig's fine, I'll be outta here a minute' and they
were happyh. I coulda had a dead body on board and they wouldn't have known.
Went to a truck stop at the next exit, Jacked up, looked everywhere, ran it
in the air ...didn't find anything really ( new rebilt 5 speed trans in it
too, at the time ) ..so kept heading west.
I could drive at 55 mph in 4th swerving very slightly to the right, then
letting off power a bit and swerve gently left ...that would keep it from
making the noise. Gradually it went away. I did CV joints when I got home.
Fine after that.
I have seen numerous times where a tired or dry CV joint would not act up
until after
serveral or many hours of continous driving.
They last nearly indefenitely in the presence of adequate qualityh lube of
course. And driven nicely.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: tire jack suggestions for 88 GL
> Drove an '85 GL for 8 years and an '88 GL for 10. Standard Vanagon jack
> always worked well enough from me.
>
> John Rodgers
> Clayartist and Moldmaker
> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> Chelsea, AL
> Http://www.moldhaus.com
>
>
> On 6/18/2010 10:01 PM, Bobby Brown wrote:
>> Had a blowout today on the interstate. The OEM jack was somewhat unstable
>> in
>> my opinion. But I did get the job done.
>>
>> What are folks using instead that fits in our hiding spots?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bobby Brown
>>
>>
>>
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