On or around Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:48:34 +0100, Stewart
enlightened us thusly:

From a point at sea, to the circles of your mind, this is Austin
Shackles:


I always look for a suspension mounting point. These by definition have to
be strong...

I forget which car it is now (I have a feeling it was a Vauxhall), but
there was a great to-do about ten years ago when people were putting
the jack under the front lower suspension link, and the link
subsequently failing catastrophically. The lower link didn't carry the
up and down stresses, and so was not designed to deal with this sort
of loading, consequently it was structurally weakened by jacking under
it.

seen that, on a cavalier. axle stand carelessly placed under the middle of
the front suspension arm.

mind, you can bend it back and weld it up...

but when I said "suspension point" I mean where the arm mounts to the
chassis/body, which should be a strong point. never jack under the rams
themselves.

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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect
other people to be enitrely to your liking?"
Thomas À Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xvi.