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PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:59 pm    Post subject: Jackall Hydraulic System Reply with quote










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PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats cool
I printed it off and showed it to my mate Cool
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can supply a larger copy if anyone requires it
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the early 1950s my father owned a 1946 austin 16 it was fitted with a jaking system that as far as i can remeber was the same as this i remeber the plate with front back and all .Iwish my old crate was fitted with them would save wet knees and bad temper .
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

47P2 must have posted this thread for some reason. But he does not explain.

I have an FL1 Austin Metropolitan Hire Car with this system. I also have some spares (sorry I dare not sell them). The similar FX2 Taxi also had them. Very convenient, but also could be dangerous. A colleague successfully changed a front wheel and leant under the bonnet to release the pressure by unscrewing the valve which was exactly above the front axle. He dropped the front wheel straight onto his foot, which cost him six weeks off work.

A variety of cars fitted the Jackall system, including Rolls Royce for a while.
Austin Sheerlines and Princesses had a more refined version which had a similar knob for the valve, but accessed through a little trap-door under the carpet in front of the driver's seat. Th refinement was a small electrically driven pump operated by simply pressing the valve knob.

These systems are clearly marked 'Use Red Jackall Fluid Only'. Where can you buy that now? However, back in the 1960s I suffered a puncture outside a remote church just as I delivered the bride with a Sheerline Wedding Car. The reservoir was short of fluid. The only garage anywhere near had never heard of 'Red Jackall Fluid', so in desperation I topped up with Girling Brake Fluid. Although I got a rocket from the management (my Dad) the fluid was never changed and never did any harm to the system even over several years.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jim Walker wrote:
47P2 must have posted this thread for some reason. But he does not explain.Jim.


Jim,

I posted this because the Jackall was mentioned in another post. Rather than hog a post about something else I thought it best to start a completely new post on the Jackall....

And that Your Honour is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked Laughing
I like 47s sense of humour
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Greeney, I never tell the truth, but I thought the phrase sounded good at the time Embarassed
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks 47! I did find the start of this thread elsewhere after I posted my reply in this one. By the way, at one time we had 17 cars with the Jackal system. Both manual and electrically operated. The only trouble we had was when someone did not return the control disc on the manual ones to "ALL". Which sometimes allowed jacks to work down and catch on obstructions. That usually destroyed them.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think with this thread being prompted by someone resident in France it should have been titled "The Day of the Jackall"

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ref fluid for jakall . The cab tilt system on foward control lorries that i sometimes work on uses a. t. f . fluid maybe it would suit jakall.
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