Had a weird call at the old hospital on Elm Street that changed my whole approach

Got called out to St. Mary's last week for a car that wouldn't level right, kept bouncing about an inch high. The usual stuff, ropes, guides, you know the drill. I was about an hour into checking the leveling tape when I noticed the sill angle iron had a slight bend, maybe a quarter inch, right where the car would hit it. I never would have looked there for a leveling issue (I was so focused on the tape and the motor). I bent it back with a pry bar and a mallet, and the car sat perfect. It was one of those things you don't see in the book, you just have to be there. Now I check the sill for flatness on every weird leveling call, even if the tape looks fine. Anyone else find a weird fix like that in an old building?

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king.derek20d agoMost Upvoted

But is a bent sill really that big of a deal, or were you just overthinking the whole thing?

simon_coleman11d ago

Honestly reminds me how often the fix is outside the main problem area.

phoenixpalmer20d ago

Found a cracked guide shoe bracket doing the same thing once.