[Tigers] lifting jacks

[wseay]

B382001570 had (has) a grey jack.

-Will

Will Seay - wseay at embarqmail.com
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Ron Fraser via Tigers
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 11:46 AM
To: Rollright at aol.com ; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] lifting jacks

Jim
Good question.  TBON states Tiger jack was painted black except for
the South African cars.  The standard Alpine jack was painted gray.  The
jack I pulled out of a Series IV Alpine was painted black so not sure color
is a good standard for ID.

Sunbeamalpine.org has some information.
Here is what I pulled from them.

Lifting jack- 5220473 (grey paint)
For SV's B395000596 and after. 19" Shelley - Made in England

Lifting jack - 1201342 (black paint)
For all Alpines up to B395000595.  20" Shelley - Made in England

Ron Fraser


-----Original Message-----
From: Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Rollright--- via Tigers
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 11:14 AM
To: tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: [Tigers] lifting jacks


Hello,

I've owned my Mk1A since spring of 1976. When I got it, it came with a
black jack with appropriate small label that was clearly a Rootes  jack; it
fit
the square body tubes and worked.

Years ago, in the late 1980s, I visited a junk yard in Berkeley CA.  There
was a low-fin Alpine, and I bought the jack it had in its trunk and  brought

it home to Massachusetts.

After recently deciding to refresh/restore my trunk, I started to  think
about the two jacks. They are almost identical except for difference in
length. My original (?) jack is about 1.5" longer. Yesterday I looked up in
both
the Alpine and Tiger "TOOLS" sections of their respective parts catalogs.
The  Tiger Parts catalog contained Mk1-Mk2. Here is what I found:

Alpine:                                part  number
up to B395000595  uses          1201342
from  B395000566   uses           5520473

Tiger:
up to  B9473324                        1201342
from  B9473325                        5520473


The Question:  Am I correct in the assumption that the shorter  (earlier)
jack is # 1201342 and the
longer (later) jack is # 5520473  ???

Thanks in advance,

Jim  Armstrong
382002083
Mk 1A
code  86