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Pantelis Giamarellos
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Austin Hi,
another excellent precautionary measure and easy to use is to fit the spare
wheel and rim below the diff's casing until you complete the wheel swapping
or whatever else you have to do when you lift the vehicle.
I always do that regardless of using the axle stands. At least one wheel
and rim are ALWAYS available when you lift the vehicle unless you just want
to lift it to make some space for the beer or food inflated belly (kidding)
Take care
Pantelis
"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Mon, 30 May 2005 22:58:53 +0100, Ian Rawlings
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >High-lift jacks are scary creatures, what with all that lack of
> >lateral support and the kind of height you have to pump the truck even
> >to change a wheel... A bottle jack under the axle followed by an axle
> >stand does it for me, and even then I leave the jack under there
> >lowered by a few millimeters. I had a blowout on the M6 at 80MPH in
> >the dead of night on a windy day, changing the wheel parked by the
> >side of the road in the wind with lorries thundering past, shaking the
> >truck, doesn't do much for the nerves when it's up in the air on a
> >high-lift.
>
> Having had a bottle jack go over and deposit a landy on me (fortunately
not
> fatally) I'm pretty paranoid about getting under vehicles without stands
> these days, too.
>
> mostly use a decent-sized trolley jack and then stands under the axles,
> unless I need the axles free. I have been known to attach the engine
hoist
> to the front bumper of the 110 in order to change the front springs; but
> that doesn't involve getting underneath.
>
> --
> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
> "Where they make a desert they call it peace" Tacitus (c.55 - c.117)
> Agricola, 30
another excellent precautionary measure and easy to use is to fit the spare
wheel and rim below the diff's casing until you complete the wheel swapping
or whatever else you have to do when you lift the vehicle.
I always do that regardless of using the axle stands. At least one wheel
and rim are ALWAYS available when you lift the vehicle unless you just want
to lift it to make some space for the beer or food inflated belly (kidding)
Take care
Pantelis
"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On or around Mon, 30 May 2005 22:58:53 +0100, Ian Rawlings
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >High-lift jacks are scary creatures, what with all that lack of
> >lateral support and the kind of height you have to pump the truck even
> >to change a wheel... A bottle jack under the axle followed by an axle
> >stand does it for me, and even then I leave the jack under there
> >lowered by a few millimeters. I had a blowout on the M6 at 80MPH in
> >the dead of night on a windy day, changing the wheel parked by the
> >side of the road in the wind with lorries thundering past, shaking the
> >truck, doesn't do much for the nerves when it's up in the air on a
> >high-lift.
>
> Having had a bottle jack go over and deposit a landy on me (fortunately
not
> fatally) I'm pretty paranoid about getting under vehicles without stands
> these days, too.
>
> mostly use a decent-sized trolley jack and then stands under the axles,
> unless I need the axles free. I have been known to attach the engine
hoist
> to the front bumper of the 110 in order to change the front springs; but
> that doesn't involve getting underneath.
>
> --
> Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
> "Where they make a desert they call it peace" Tacitus (c.55 - c.117)
> Agricola, 30
