Don't we all have vices we could tell about?
Regards,
Doug Pewterbaugh
dpewter@msn.com
Denton, TX
49 3104 216 5-Window
-----Original Message-----
From: ROGER GLEASON <rogerg@maverick.facil.uconn.edu>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Harbor Freight
>I bought a 2-1/2 ton also and after using it several months in the
>garage we brought it to the track for use on the race car...maybe
>because it very dusty or because of the gravel in the pits but the
>thing started leaking under no pressure like when we return it to the
>garage at night and a large spot shows up on the garage floor
>in the morning....I now leave it pumped up a little and it seems to
>have cured it somewhat...We had to refill it and I used some oil
>labelled hydraulic jack oil I had obtained years ago and it stopped
>leaking.... Filling it was a chore... we had to slowly lift the end
>while pouring oil into the relief check(?) then holding it up in the
>air and re-install the plug... I still don't think I got it full and I
>don't feel like it goes all the way up but one good thing about it is
>now it doesn't come down too fast like it did when it was new... I
>had trouble releasing the thing under load and it would allow the car
>to come crashing down...Next jack will be american made if I can
>find one possibly a used one from a auto repair garage sale...Ask me
>a bout the vice I got from there its another story...
>Rogerg
>51-3100 AD Stocker
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>> In a message dated 8/9/99 11:02:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
tburt@hirose.com
>> writes:
>>
>> << I looking at buying one of their heavy duty floor jacks. Anybody out
>> there bought one?
>>
>> Tom B. '57 Stepside 3200 >>
>>
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>> I bought the 2 1/2 ton model for like 39.99, had to take the first one
>> back, the second one seemed okay after it's fist use, so I kept it, used
it
>> about a month later (after the warranty expired) and noticed it would
leak
>> down under load, I've bled the heck out it, but still no luck, it lifts
fine
>> and I can live with it. If I used it everyday I think I'd have taken the
>> torch to it though :)
>>
>> Mike
>> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>>
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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