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Given the challenge of getting a floor jack under the exhaust side of of th=
e car, a definitive and authoritative answer to this question would be help=
ful. I haven't done it on the Healey, but I think this practice is pretty c=
ommon.=20
On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 8:35 PM, Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.=
net> wrote:
=20
Thought about posting this to shop-talk, but I suspect there's more=20
general car knowledge here.
I believe my Mustang manual has admonitions against jacking the rear by=20
placing a floor jack under the rear pumpkin.=C2=A0 I've jacked-up Healeys=
=20
this way for years, but the Healey axle housing is a single chunk of=20
iron; the Mustang probably has thin-wall tubes from the pumpkin to the=20
wheels.=C2=A0 Theoretically, you could bend the thin-wall tubes, but I've=
=20
done it a few times with no noticeable issues.
Thoughts from the Illuminati?
Bob
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iven the challenge of getting a floor jack under the exhaust side of of the=
car, a definitive and authoritative answer to this question would be helpf=
ul. I haven't done it on the Healey, but I think this practice is pretty co=
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r knowledge here.<br><br>I believe my Mustang manual has admonitions agains=
t jacking the rear by <br>placing a floor jack under the rear pumpkin. =
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g is a single chunk of <br>iron; the Mustang probably has thin-wall tubes f=
rom the pumpkin to the <br>wheels. Theoretically, you could bend the =
thin-wall tubes, but I've <br>done it a few times with no noticeable issues=
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