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Oh, by the way, one longstanding controversy (according to my understanding) among air cooled car fixers without fancy hoists, is whether you jack up the car and then drop the engine, or whether you drop the engine and then jack up the car.
While I agree that they need to be raised fairly far, I don't think this is the greatest danger. IMHO, 6-ton jackstands under the torsion tube covers in the wheel wells are a nice, wide, positive support even though they're holding the car HIGH. I felt comfortable with this. What gave me the creeps was trying to lower an engine from this height using a floor jack. To begin with, a floor jack will NOT reach the engien at this height. So, you extend the floor jack fully and still add several inches of plywood under it to get it high enough. I was very anxious.
So the next time I tried the other method, and I like it a lot better. Jack it up a LITTLE bit. Remove the engine, then jack the car up as far as you need.
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'83 SC
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