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Subject:Broken Bilsteins
Date:Thu, 13 Apr 95 10:00:01 MST

--John Anderson said:--
> Jacks are different, square post on a bus, round on a Vanagon, I'd like
> to note the OEM Bilstein jacks used to 7?' with the nut you turned by
> your lug wrench were much much stronger than the one that came stock in
> our '76 with the built in crank handle, I've never seen an earlier one
> broken, 

The jack in my '71 breaks occasionaly...the pin that holds the
gear on the shaft sheared off. Every couple of years I have to 
fashion a new pin. I also carry a floor jack and a bottle jack
with me [grin]

-- 
Todd R. Schroeder          |    Without vision, a people perish.
todds@sunnet.chotel.com    |      Proverbs xxix:18
'71 Campmobile

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