You can't use it to jack up the control arm rather than the body? Jim Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. --Franklin D. Roosevelt On May 20, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Paul Chubbuck wrote: > Thanks to those who responded regarding the proper jack for a Westy > and on > how to bleed an hydraulic jack. > > The actual problem, which I now understand, was that the jack did > not have > the necessary reach. As it came with my used Westy and I had not > used it > before, I didn't realize that the only way it could work would be to > set in > on an appropriately sized block of wood or a rock to bring it closer > to the > frame before beginning to pump. Otherwise, it runs out of reach > about the > time it begins to take the weight of the vehicle. |
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