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Re: Help with jackstands.

To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Help with jackstands.
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:07:08 -0800
These "cinderblocks" are precisely what one is always warned NOT to use to
support a car. They can crumble suddenly without warning. Use solid wood
blocks instead.

on 3/21/01 9:20 AM, George at aigel.geo@yahoo.com wrote:

> Yes that is safe though you will have to make sure nobody leans on the car
> while you are underneath it and that it sits firmly in all 4 corners. I
> like to keep the wheels on unless they have to come off for what I am
> doing. Then I put some large bricks (cinterblocks) underneath the wheels,
> so the car will not hit the ground (me) in case it wants to go somewhere.

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.

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