floor jacks & reawakenings

[davidpertuz at mindspring.com]

If that one looks good to me, I might just try to press-gang my Costco-membership-having friend into taking me to the nearby mart for a trip. 

A battery (dead, but returnable), the trickle charger (inop) and the jack all got jacked - and I didn't even realize the jack was gone (it often stays in the trunk) until this weekend. I'm damn glad that my tool bags were in the trunk and not on the garage floor, though!

David


-----Original Message-----
>From: "Frey, Richard K" <rfrey at iupui.edu>
>Sent: Mar 29, 2010 3:20 PM
>To: "se-r at se-r-list.org" <se-r at se-r-list.org>
>Subject: RE: floor jacks & reawakenings
>
>My local Sam's club has a nice aluminum jack for $99.  It comes complete with a  Penske sticker on the arms.  Hope that's not a deal killer.  :)  I am guessing costco has something similar.
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>Too bad your jack got jacked.
>
>rick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: se-r-bounces at se-r-list.org [mailto:se-r-bounces at se-r-list.org] On Behalf Of davidpertuz at mindspring.com
>Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:21 PM
>To: se-r at se-r-list.org
>Subject: floor jacks & reawakenings
>
>Some time recently my floor jack grew legs and walked away (along with my battery tender) when my neighbor accidentally left the garage door open. So I need another one, especially as I am de-hibernating my Fiat next weekend and need to do an oil change. My old floor jack was a kinda-crappy-but-good-enough model that I had for ~15 years, so at least I got my money's worth. 
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>1)When it comes to less-expensive floor jacks, are there any that particularly stand out over whatever I can find at my local parts stores?
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>2)Ditto for more hi-po floor jacks (the kind that get your car up in a few pumps), in aluminum - steel ones are monstrously heavy, and the jack sometimes goes along on trips with me so I want something I can actually lift and doesn't take up a ton of trunk space. Not sure I want to spend the $$ for a big Al jack, tho.
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>Also, this spring/summer I will finally reawaken my SE-R. First job will be the rod bearings. The engine hasn't even spun over in a year and a half, since the car's been sitting in the garage since I moved. Is there any reason to fire it up before I drop the pan? I might have to anyway, just to turn the car around so it's facing out. 
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>Then, anything else I should make sure to do when I'm doing the bearings? Mostly it occurs to me to try to think of things b/'c the car's been sitting a while. I don't have the hoist, stand or garage space to drop the engine and do it all on a stand (though I'd really prefer to), so it's going to be an in-car job. This means I'm not resealing the front cover or anything like that.
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>I miss driving my SE-R! 
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>Feel free to pile on with 'check the archivez!' if the spirit strikes.
>
>David
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