What's the best way to lift the front end of a syncro the required 40mm for bleeding the bleeding cooling system? Bentley indicates that you need to rig some sort of support to allow a floor jack to lift at both front jack points on the crossmember. But syncros have that extra skid plate stuff giving only 9.5" of clearance. Using a 4x4 (wood) support leaves maybe 5"-6" for the floor jack which seems kinda tight. Might work, but I'd like to get some feedback from those that have done this before I embark down this path. Another idea I had was to get a couple of drive-on ramps, but the biggest I can find raise the vehicle only about 11". |____________Vanagon ____________| __ | | __ | | |_____| | | | |__________________________| | | 4x4 support | |________________________________| _______ | floor | | jack | |_______| -Mark McCulley '87 syncro
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