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| McMark |
 Sep 13 2009, 04:23 PM
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The motor/transmission is rubber mounted. If you jack from the motor on a side shifter car and the mounts tear, your engine will stay still while the car drops. Bad news. Don't do it.
If you don't want to lift a wheel on the jack, position it perpendicular to the car. As the car lifts, the distance between the pivot point (opposite side tires) and the jack gets smaller, so the jack need to roll in that direction. In your scenario above, the rearward motion in your step #4 is caused by the jack being parallel to the car. |
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