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Summary: Learn how to create a foothold for car frame alignment and straightening with expert automotive advice in this classic car repair and restoration video clip.
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Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more
DOUG JENKINS: Hi, I'm Doug. I work with twenty 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. The first step Ralph's going to be doing here is trying to get a good place to get a foothold on this thing. He needs to find out you know the right length, the right angle to push at. You know you can see he needs to lengthen the tool there before he starts jacking. And to make sure he can push on the right part of the frame, we're not lifting the steel frame at this point, he's moving the wood frame. And he can't reach through the mount on the steel frame in order to get through the wood so he's using a die grinder in here to hollow out the hole a little bit and make it larger so he can get his--the end of the porta power through there. So he's reaching up there and grinding away a little bit to make a larger access hole. Now he's inspecting the top part to make sure his jack is pushing on a good spot.