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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
Comments: To: "AndrewD158@AOL.COM" <AndrewD158@AOL.COM>

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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