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DOUG JENKINS: Hi. I'm Doug. I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom
Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. In order
to get to the remaining bolts, the engine mounts, the starter, a couple of bell housing
bolts at the bottom, Dan is going to jack up the car. He's using a good quality hydraulic
jack on wheels. This is the best way to lift a car. Cars that have a good, strong cradle
in front, like this car does, you can jack from the center like Dan is doing. Cars that
don't have a good, strong cradle, you have to lift up a little bit from each side. Most
muscle cars like this have a nice strong cradle you can jack off of, and he's going to raise
it up probably as high as the jack will go. And if you look under there you can see that
it's dribbling coolant on the floor and that's just part of the deal. There's no way of getting
around that. It's going to dribble when he jacks it up. And then when we get a chain
on the motor and start lifting it up, it's going to dribble coolant all over the place
again. And then he drained the engine carefully when he started, but there's just no getting
away from all the little passages where coolant gets stored. So this is a two-stage jack;
it went fast until it had weight on it. It's a real nice jack, then it goes more slowly
once you get weight on it.