""BARRY OLIVER"" <DHSPA58@dhs.state.il.us> wrote in message
news:sffd2355.013@mail.dhs.state.il.us...
>
> Shiney?? nah, leave them as cast... a sand-cast surface ought to give
> reasonable traction
>
> On a side note, my neighbor across the street has a pair of PLASTIC
> car-ramps. He says he got them at our local big-lots (essentially a
> retail flea-market). He used the heck out of them all last summer with
> no apparent ill effects. With his driveway, using jackstands is rather
> problematic, because it is quite sloped. What he has been doing is
> driving all the way up his driveway, placing the ramps below, and then
> driving back onto them. His van end's up allmost level. I guess that's
> just another potential example of Darwin's theory in action.
The ones I have are plastic too, there's a nice honeycomb underneath... i
usually stick at least one jack stand under the frame just in case though, i
don't trust anything.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html www.omg-stfu.com
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