Date:         Sun, 20 May 2012 16:30:58 -0700
Reply-To:     Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
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From:         Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
Subject:      Re: vanagon Digest - 19 May 2012 (#2012-326)
Comments: To: Paul Chubbuck <paul@STILLSTONEVISIONS.COM>
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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.