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Originally Posted by speeder
Hazards of the profession...life goes on. 
What I want to know is how the CSI team figured that one out? I'm assuming that the guy got caught if you heard or read about it(?)
My other question, (bit of a highjack but otherwise I'll never remember to ask), what do they do with stolen cats? Take them apart for the precious metal? Because scrap yards don't pay anything for them complete, I tried to scrap one once and it was just "mixed metal." Worthless. |
There was another thread here recently about that. Seems that newer, cleaner cats can bring up to $75 at the right place. No,
you don't take the cat apart and mess with the 'precious' metals that are in need.
As for the jacks, I think it's known to be faster. In college I worked at a tire shop on Saturdays. They didn't have a lift anywhere but all kinds of jacks.
Remember the "bumper jack?" Put it under the rear bumper of a car of those days and the whole rear end went up about 3 feet. We were careful to not try and balance a car on jacks. It was typically one side up with one jack and then over to the other side. If only the fronts or rears were being changed, out came the BJ. It was pneumatic so it was quick. Floor jacks in those days took about 20 pumps to raise a car with all the suspension droop they had then.
I knew a transmission guy that used bumper jacks all the time. If it was the rear end, he for sure used only the BJ and went under to get the diff out. That thing would raise the rear end 4 feet off the ground. The car often was resting on the front bumper.
No jack stands that tall or safe to use at that radical angle. No OSHA in those days.