Re: [Amc-list] Shock absorbing goodness!

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks on the congrats!
Like I said on the ramps, mine are 25 years old +-  never thought about the newer ones, but your right they probably are marginal in quality at best.

I've NEVER owned a split tube jackstand in my life!!! 
I won't either, I use nothing but GOOD heavy ones. They cost me like $90+ a pair back in the 80's for the one set.
The other set is made by bear alignement IIRC and are welded and very wide based, too wide as they are a PIA to roll around, but they ain't going to collapse any time soon!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 5 beer day.
> > My sons graduation party, still going on...
> > My birthday! 
> 
> Congratulations!
> 
> 
> > When you do the fronts, don't hang the front wheel when you unbolt the shocks.
> 
> I do shocks with the car simply sitting on the ground. Nothing's over 
> extended or under tension. Since the lower's you just need a 9/16" deep 
> socket it's fairly easy.
> 
> Assumes stock Rambler suspension height! My wagon's got 9" or so ground 
> clearance!
> 
> If I'm doing no other suspension work at the same time, I do strut 
> bushings the same way, on the ground. If you do it with the wheel off 
> the ground, the lower arm puts a crapload of stress on the strut and 
> it's impossible to get it assembled. With the lower arm in it's normal 
> ride height, the strut has almost no forces on it.
> 
> Another advantage of doing it sitting on the ground is you maintain 
> alignment enough to get drivable to the alignment shop (which it will 
> immediately need with new bushings).
> 
> I don't trust ramps, I've not seen a pair I would trust, those 
> stamped/formed steel things scare me. Good cast and good-welded 
> jackstands I have a lot of. I once had one of those cheap steel stands 
> (the three legs are just the tubing split with little straps across the 
> bottom) collapse on me -- I had literally just crawled out from under 
> the car (79 Spirit V8) and >WHUMP!< down it went. I threw them all away 
> and bought cast ones.
> 
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