tools for tranny swap?

[flaatr at yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

In my opinion rams are just as safe or safer than stands but the problem I 
had is if your car is even just a little bit lowered your going to crunch 
the front air dam of the car pulling onto the ramps, well the two that I 
tried on my 8V where sloped to high... wouldn't even think of trying to 
pull the 16V onto ramps.

Stands are better for our cars.

-Raffi


At 03:30 PM 7/10/2003 -0700, Jeff Toomasson wrote:
>I don't know if I'm the right person to ask about the ramps vs. jackstands
>thing - my Mom had a friend die because either the ramps failed or his
>e-brake did.   I, myself, would _never_ use ramps and I double- and
>triple-check the car by firmly nudging it after it's on jackstands.
>
>My $0.01, JT
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Smith" <sad_rocc@yahoo.com>
>To: "Jeff Toomasson" <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:22 PM
>Subject: Re: tools for tranny swap?
>
>
> > Unfortunately, I'm still lacking a Bently, though
> > since I have to special order all the sockets, I'm
> > going to order a Bently at the same time and they'll
> > probably come in at the same time. As I have watched
> > others and helped replace stuff on my own cars, I'm
> > slowly learning that things are a lot easier than they
> > seem to be. So far, pretty much everything that I've
> > had people help me with (though it hasn't been much
> > and nothing major), each time I've been like, "Ohhhh,
> > so that's it? Wow, cool." There are 2 other dubbers in
> > my area I'm hoping to get ahold of to lend a hand and
> > also my housemate has some mechanical knowledge so all
> > in all, I should be okay. I'm just lacking in tools.
> > At least it's almost always sunny here and the car is
> > parked on a flat, level surface. One other thing, can
> > I put the car up on ramps or do I need it to be on
> > jackstands?
> >
> > --- Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Dude - just follow Bob's (the Bentley) instructions.
> > > They'll get you through
> > > 90% of it, this list is for the other 10%...  :)
> > >
> > > Best advise I can give you? Have confidence and be
> > > patient.
> > >
> > > There's a lot of things that are "out of our
> > > league", but until you do them,
> > > you're never going to learn. Even though I had done
> > > some reasonably
> > > sophisticated shit on multiple occasions (like
> > > rebuilding cylinder heads), I
> > > had never actually done a clutch _myself_ until
> > > recently... It just sucks
> > > when you have to learn on your daily driver and you
> > > don't have the luxury to
> > > make a mistake or two...
> > >
> > > oh - and for the speedo cable screw? Vise-grip that
> > > shit...
> > >
> >
> >
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