Excerpts from internet.listserv.vanagon: 13-Apr-95 Re: extra jack? by Richard@unity.ncsu.edu > Although I suppose you mean a stock jack, I highly recommend that > everyone who works on their bus have a good,sturdy floor jack. I got the Let us not forget that hydraulic jacks can fail at a moments notice! Pack your jack-stands, a bunch of bricks, whatever to put under there as well. DO NOT TRUST that floor jack. I've seen one fail catastrophically , and heard several other horror stories.. (the seals gave way,and they just collapsed!) Really an eye opener! -- Buz... Rob Armitage Carnegie Mellon University buz+@cmu.edu or: ra1d@andrew.cmu.edu or: .....!{ucbvax,harvard}!andrew.cmu.edu!ra1d+ "Diplomacy: The art of saying NICE DOGGY until you can find a rock."
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