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Old 03-27-2008, 02:49 PM
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If you have the tail of the car as high as it will go, and the lift pulling on the hook in the center position, it all comes out at a pretty extreme angle, and misses all the bodywork. You need at least two people to do a good job (one doing the hoist, one or two wrestling with the engine/trans, and to keep it from hitting stuff), especially if you care about your paint. A key sticking point is often getting the shifter stub past the front top edge of the trans tunnel.

Andrew
It's the extreme angle that worries me with the driveshaft attached.
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