Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:09:40 -0400
Reply-To: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject: Re: Inspection followup
Conceivably, you *could* damage the rear motor mounts by lifting the van
this way. The front one (on the tranny) is pretty well designed to take
this direction of lift/force, as it is under the similar stress when you
reverse. I wouldn't make a practice of it though, because the rear mounts
are NOT well designed to support the weight of the van; they would probably
stretch/break.
Proving that these guys broke them would be virtually impossible, as motor
mounts break all the time, and there is no reliable way of identifying
what/when they broke.
On the bright side, The inspector here in Cary was a jem (Pit Stop, on
Maynard Rd. Very careful. In fact, the van was out of spec for CO (prolly
since it has 96mm flat top pistons, and a 009 dist.? the FI was not
re-adjusted for this). Either way, he adjusted the AFM vane spring and the
CO gizmo using the four-gas analyzer, and the van runs MUCH better. Got my
CO down to 80 ppm, (120 is the limit), and the HC down to 150; both started
around 300+. Yeah!
Charged me $7.
G. Matthew Bulley
Director
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dunn [SMTP:AndrewD158@AOL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 3:18 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Inspection followup
Thank you all for your sympathetic messages reguarding my mishap. I just
put
400 miles on the van without any apparent resulting problems. I do still
wonder if any hidden damage is commonly done by jacking the vehicle by the
tranny. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with this?
Reguarding the legal issues: NYC has to be the most lawless and
reckless
place when it comes to mechanics and their shops. You must make
appointments
with them. Its sort of like making an appointment with a politician, satan
and hopefully god all at once. Whichever one of the three gets the job
done
is then thanked profusely and over rewarded for their efforts of throwing
in
stop leak or STP into your vehicle. If you happen to find a good honest
mechanic, you can be sure that his reputation will spread among friends as
quickly as a Saint's would.
Its the same with laundry of course(you are just thankful they didn't ruin
your clothes). As for arming myself with a 12'r shotgun, although
understandeable and even forgiveable by a trial of your peers, I suspect
that most shops here are already heavily armed and ready for any assault,
unless you pay in cash of course.
Thanks
Yours
Andrew
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