[Mgs] '71 MGB Prop/drive shaft bolts and nuts -- use Nylok or regular nuts?

[Simon Matthews]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

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> I drive it onto ramps then jack under one spring bottom plate when
> greasing the UJs for example.  The jack only needs to go up an inch or so
> for the tyre to clear the ramp, so leaving plenty of room if the jack
> should happen to fail.  This is the *only* time I work under anything
> jacked.  For anything needing the axle hanging down the stands go under the
> front hangers, but you do need to be aware that if the rebound straps fail
> the axle will drop further.  Ramps and a jack raising a wheel if a wheel
> needs to be turned *is* safer.
>

Safety was the reason I used ramps in the first place. It appears that you
would do somthing similar what I did. The only problem I had was that my
jack would not go high enough to raise the wheel off the ramp, so that  I
had to put the jack on some wood. We did not work under the car like this
-- just jacked up the wheel, turned it, dropped the wheel back on the ramp
and worked on the prop shaft aqain.

Simon

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> PaulH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> While on this subject, what is the best way to jack up the car for this
> project? I put the car on ramps, but found that we had to turn a wheel in
> order to gain access to two of the bolts at the rear. Hence we hacked up
> one wheel off the ramp, turned the wheel and dropped it back onto the ramp.
> Not something that I really wanted to do. Also, jacking up the body of the
> car and letting the rear axle drop would give better access to the rear
> propshaft nuts. But where to put the jackstands?