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1. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Dick Matson" <MedLabInc@msn.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:34:03 -0700; Dick M Bj8 -- Original Message -- From: Ed@SpriteSpree<mailto:Ed@SpriteSpree> To: Dick Matson<mailto:MedLabInc@msn.com> ; AustinHealey List<mailto:healeys@autox.team.net> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00176.html (8,339 bytes)
2. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Chris Dimmock" <cd3000@bigpond.net.au>; Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:58:13 +1000; I also use 4" x 2" ramps, about 3 feet long, cut at an angle, so I can get a trolley jack under the car. Here's my tip - if you attach some old carpet under the 'ramp' - on the approach side - say 18; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00177.html (9,171 bytes)
3. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "James Shope" <healeymanjim@JoiMail.com>; Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:42:52 -0700; maybe i am just lazy, but in over 30 years of changing oil in healeys i cannot ever remember jacking the rear end up. only for the differential do i jack the rear. is there something i do not know ab; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00184.html (7,853 bytes)
4. RE: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Peter Schauss" <schauss@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:10:27 -0400; I built a set of mini-ramps by cutting the ends of four 2x4's at 60 degree angles and nailing them together side by side. Made a ramp which would raise the car about 3", enough so that I could easily; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00189.html (7,907 bytes)
5. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Ed@SpriteSpree" <ed@spritespree.org>; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:03:52 -0500; <<Or a channeled adapter for the top or your jack. ____ ______ \--\ L 0 R ___________________ ____|\--\|_____ But you would still need something for total "span", Dick (er, shoud have-:) ) Looking DO; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00190.html (8,344 bytes)
6. Fw: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Dick Matson" <MedLabInc@msn.com>; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:56:15 -0700; Or a channeled adapter for the top or your jack. Dick M Bj8 -- Original Message -- From: Ed@SpriteSpree<mailto:Ed@SpriteSpree> To: Awgertoo@aol.com<mailto:Awgertoo@aol.com> ; rrengineer@dslextreme.c; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00192.html (8,983 bytes)
7. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Ed@SpriteSpree" <ed@spritespree.org>; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:22:44 -0500; <<I can jack the front and still have clearance to slide a jack underneath the rear crossmember.>> Certainly HOPE you still use at least a 2" x 4" board (entire width of crossmember to outside of rai; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00195.html (8,185 bytes)
8. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Mark Endicott" <mark@nashvilletn.org>; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:00:41 -0500; There is a real simple way to increase rear clearance for a jack, drive the car on a couple of pieces of 2 X 10 and you can get another 1.5 inches. This was enough to get a jack under my 100 even wit; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00201.html (8,710 bytes)
9. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: Awgertoo@aol.com; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:19:11 EDT; Until I got new rear springs if I wanted to raise the entire car I too used to have to use the two-step method described by John Sims, rasing the front a bit, then jacking the rear, then coming back; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00203.html (8,292 bytes)
10. RE: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: rrengineer@dslextreme.com; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:49:04 -0700 (PDT); Sure glad I got a 4 post lift in my garage. It has access up the middle underneath and a jacking tray to jack up anything once it is in the air. Has about a dozen stops on it, but the garage door is; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00209.html (8,685 bytes)
11. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Lee Mairs (SAG)" <lmairs@sagcorp.com>; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:32:51 -0400; Thanks to all who wrote regarding the process for jacking the Healey. I got all the information I need. Lee Mairs '62 BT7 Tri-carb ROmney, WV; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00214.html (8,186 bytes)
12. RE: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Tracy Drummond" <bighealey@charter.net>; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:44:21 -0700; For such operations as oil changes I use ramps. When corner jacking I use a suspension point such as a spring plate. When center jacking I use a piece of wood to spread the jack load so as not to pu; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00217.html (9,211 bytes)
13. RE: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: John Sims <ahbn6@optonline.net>; Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:28:30 -0400; My jack process was not for an oil change but for doing some major work under the car raising it high enough to get completely under which is not necessary for an oil change for which I just use jack; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00218.html (8,746 bytes)
14. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Mark and Kathy" <mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net>; Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:35:24 -0400; Jack up the rear for an oil change? Why? Does the exhaust foul out on the ground before clearance is made for the jack stands in front? Haven't crossed this bridge with an assembled Healey yet. If th; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00222.html (7,981 bytes)
15. RE: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: John Sims <ahbn6@optonline.net>; Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:52:36 -0400; Actually, jacking the healey up enough to place Jack stands under it is a multi-part process. If you jack the front too high, you can NOT get a floor jack under the differential. My process is to rai; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00228.html (10,547 bytes)
16. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:13:26 -0700; The "secret way," I believe, is to jack the front using a wood block under the crossmember. Then, jack the differential from in front of the right rear wheel (this is assuming you're using a floor ja; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00229.html (8,933 bytes)
17. Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Lee Mairs (SAG)" <lmairs@sagcorp.com>; Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:29:42 -0400; We got my BT7 running this afternoon, and after only about 7 minutes, we could put the choke in and it would idle smoothly. I want to change the oil after tomorrows run, but I'm not sure I remember t; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00230.html (7,946 bytes)
18. Re: Jacking the Healey (score: 1): Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:43:15 -0500; My jack is slightly to high to get under most of the frame even when at its lowest, I grab a sturdy part of the car and push up and slide the jack under, no lumber required. As the suspension is susp; /html/healeys/2006-06/msg00243.html (7,706 bytes)

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