Ramp Position for Car Frame Alignment

Video Transcript

"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. Each one of these older cars gives you a special challenge in getting it started. This Packard is a fairly straightforward one, there's just a switch on the floor for starting. Ralph there is helping me get lined up. We're going to be pulling the car onto this rack that you can see in the front part of the picture. The rack is absolutely parallel, the rails are parallel to one another. When we have everything set up there, it's absolutely flat and level, and that gives us a good baseline in order to measure off of and get everything squared away. Ralph is standing out of the frame here, giving me directions to get up on the rack. So Ralph is controlling a little electric hydraulic pump there on his foot that'll run the hydraulic ram underneath the frame rack here that raises the back of it up so that whole thing sits level. I drove it up--little portable ramps there and once he's got everything... RALPH: [INDISCERNIBLE]. DOUG JENKINS: ...chocked there, I put the car in neutral and take off the parking brake, and we can get to measuring."