In a message dated 12/9/2003 2:16:32 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mjb@autox.team.net writes:
> The jack I picked up earlier this year at Harbor Fright has a saddle height
> of something like 3.5 inches, compared to the 5.5 or so of the Sears shop
> jack I've been using. Even at 3.5, it is still too high to get under the
> front frame of a Spit when the car is sporting 20 x N x 13 slicks.
>
> What we did this spring to the red racing Spit is put a forged eye bolt
> through the front bumper/bonnet mount frame crossmember....
Clever! Admittedly, what we used to do many years ago, in the heyday of the
Hardly Boys RaceSpit 4 autocrosser, was to simply carry a couple short lengths
of 2" x 6" wood. Drive the front wheels up onto the wood, insert jack, Bob's
your uncle, etc.
And we simply will NOT discuss the one time that the co-owner of the car* -- in
haste -- accidentally mistook the bottom tank of the radiator for a jacking
point.... :-(
--Andy Mace
*Not me, the OTHER co-owner! I, however, was the one who had to come up with
another radiator.
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