> requires a lot more effort to lift now. My struts on the door are shot > anyway. I have a vise grip for one strut, and the other was removed and I > insert a piece of wood. So I can open the hatch, but I remove the bikes > if I am stopped for the night any place where I would have the hatch open. Watch yourself with that vice-grip trick. My dad got mashed when my uncle's truck shell with the same symptom's vice-grip fell off. With a quick slip, the shell lid came flying down right on his face.
- Mike White [Mail: mike.white@law.utah.edu - mwhite@eng.utah.edu] Visit my own webserver [http://fpc99.law.utah.edu/]
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