Jacking up a C6
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This home made jack stows in the rear pocket of your car, does not need a puck and will not slip off your frame. Look for my thread if I remember the title correctly: DIY: Stow-Away Emergency Jack for the how to directions. I have used it to change my oil now and it's solid as a rock on a cement driveway.
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This home made jack stows in the rear pocket of your car, does not need a puck and will not slip off your frame. Look for my thread if I remember the title correctly: DIY: Stow-Away Emergency Jack for the how to directions. I have used it to change my oil now and it's solid as a rock on a cement driveway.
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Me took me chances!!
Do you know how many cars I've seen fall off of scissor jacks like that??? After bumper jacks, they are the most unstable jack known to man. Please tell me you put jack stands under your Corvette before crawling under it. Hopefully your DIY jack wasn't the only thing holding your car up.
I "really do" thank you for caring enough to call me an A$$ hole and I mean that.
PS: You are right, so next time I will get off my lazy a$$ and slide a jack stand under there.
Last edited by C7/Z06 Man; 05-09-2011 at 03:39 AM.
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Of course this is perfectly fine. It's a vehicle, not a piece of china. I have done it numerous times and so have many others. Some people crack the doors and the trunk and hood just to be extra careful, but I don't.
Also, always, under all circumstances, no exceptions, use jack stands when you are under the car in any fashion. Always.
Also, always, under all circumstances, no exceptions, use jack stands when you are under the car in any fashion. Always.
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I change wheels frequently lifting one corner of the car and I've never had a problem. I use a small floor jack with a 'custom' puck. Make sure the car's on level ground, the jack is secure, use chock blocks, etc. Even though I'm only raising the wheel/tire an inch or two I use a cut section of a 4 x 4 as a safety backup (just in case).
Do you know how many cars I've seen fall off of scissor jacks like that??? After bumper jacks, they are the most unstable jack known to man. Please tell me you put jack stands under your Corvette before crawling under it. Hopefully your DIY jack wasn't the only thing holding your car up.
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You also don't need jacking pucks.
The threads that pop up on here sometimes truly baffle me.
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As you guys can see from my last post I agree completely with using a jack stand.
But let me present this for your consideration:
1) At least three tires (maybe 3 & 1/2) are still on the ground and the two rear tires are locked so to speak and every thing is on a flat firm surface.
2) The front left point of the four has a steel jack that is locked solid into the frame AND WILL NOT SLIP, PERIOD. The bottom surface of the jack would have to skid across the cement driveway with the rest of the car/tires to come down.
3) I gave the car or myself a good shaking and zero movement. So I reached in and did my thing. This is the part about common sense in my last post.
BOTTOM LINE= Next time I will get off my "lazy a$$" and go get the jack stand.
But let me present this for your consideration:
1) At least three tires (maybe 3 & 1/2) are still on the ground and the two rear tires are locked so to speak and every thing is on a flat firm surface.
2) The front left point of the four has a steel jack that is locked solid into the frame AND WILL NOT SLIP, PERIOD. The bottom surface of the jack would have to skid across the cement driveway with the rest of the car/tires to come down.
3) I gave the car or myself a good shaking and zero movement. So I reached in and did my thing. This is the part about common sense in my last post.
BOTTOM LINE= Next time I will get off my "lazy a$$" and go get the jack stand.
Last edited by C7/Z06 Man; 05-09-2011 at 12:36 PM.
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For some jacks I agree. However I've seen some floor jacks with wide diameter lifting rings and using a puck or a block of wood ensures the jack is centered w/o risking that part of the ring will be pushing on the underside of the fender.
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Anyone else seen the area around the shipping slots deform? Mine have after being used more times than I can count. I just use the flat round pad of my Harbor Freight jack to lift there.
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This home made jack stows in the rear pocket of your car, does not need a puck and will not slip off your frame. Look for my thread if I remember the title correctly: DIY: Stow-Away Emergency Jack for the how to directions. I have used it to change my oil now and it's solid as a rock on a cement driveway.
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I've seen too many cars fall off of jacks and even garage "post" type lifts in person or in videos. I personally crawled out from underneath a car, stood up in front of it, and watched the front end slam to the ground 5 seconds later when the cheap 3-ton capacity jackstands collapsed into steel pancakes...yes, I turned white as a ghost. I don't trust any jack or jackstands for that matter with my life so I get pretty **** about safety under a car. I have two sets of top quality jackstands and sometimes I use both sets with one as a backup. I also leave the floor jack just barely loaded against the frame. In addition, I have a few wheel/tires of different rim/section widths and I'll grab one and slide it under the car in a strategic place to catch the car if everything else fails. I can buy new wheels/tires or even a car...I can't buy a new head.
I'm the poster boy for accidents so please don't take this as me preaching to you about safety. I amputated my right hand Mar 2000 with a circular saw but the doctors were able to reattach it. The worst was watching my family get emotionally torn to pieces watching my ordeal as I made three more trips to the emergency room fighting off infections of every type (bacterial and fungal). My fight for my hand was taking a toll on my body and it quickly turned into a fight for my life...I stopped weighing myself after I dropped below 140 LBs (I was 5'10") and looked like a terminal cancer patient with a few days to live. When you tell your mother you don't want to live without your hand and she responds through tears that she doesn't want to live without her son, you look at things much differently afterwards. I truly hope you have people in your life who would feel the same as my mom...that is the perspective I was coming from in my first post and I apologize again if it came across badly.
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Thanks for posting. I don't know what to say! except to bless you and your wonderful family. I don't know what I would do without a hand but I have to agree with your mother on choosing life over a hand. Take care.
I just remembered that I met a guy a couple of years ago that lost his right hand in a motorcycle accident and he seemed to have adjusted and still had a good outlook on life. (Mid 30s)
I just remembered that I met a guy a couple of years ago that lost his right hand in a motorcycle accident and he seemed to have adjusted and still had a good outlook on life. (Mid 30s)
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