FAQ |
Members List |
Social Groups |
Calendar |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
Members Helping Members help Buying a non Pontiac item, transportation help, Handy-man advice, directions, vacation ideas, places to dine, ebay and generally anything you think might help other members. |
Reply |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
||||
|
||||
Once I let the car down on jackstands...any kind of jackstands....I always lift the jack back up to where it makes contact with the lift point of the vehicle but not enough to raise it off the stands. I don't trust either one alone, the stands or the jack.
If the jack will be in the way, I always back up the stands with wood, a spare tire or two or something.
__________________
Greg Reid Palmetto, Georgia |
The Following User Says Thank You to Greg Reid For This Useful Post: | ||
#22
|
||||
|
||||
__________________
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did, in his sleep. Not screaming like the passengers in his car. |
The Following User Says Thank You to Jeff Hamlin For This Useful Post: | ||
#23
|
||||
|
||||
^^^ Lol...just not ours!
__________________
"I know just enough to keep me here, but not enough to get me out" |
#24
|
|||
|
|||
Chances are you will live allot longer if you follow that advice!!
|
#25
|
||||
|
||||
There is now a recall on the recall... I just got this in an email -
Quote:
__________________
Greg Reid Palmetto, Georgia |
#26
|
|||
|
|||
Took mine back yesterday. Gift card. I have other stands same color as HF .look identical but different sticker. Think I bought them at local NAPA. I'm going to pin them with .250 pin. I have habit of double supporting the vehicle. I have alot of 4x4s blocking stacked in garage. Worst time back in 68 working on friends 59 Pontiac convertible. Changing auto trans. He placed 2 -10" concrete blocks vertically under rear axle, With Web of block on housing??!! We were warming on selves,before crawling under, winter,big crash yep we were saved, I double ck everything now. When your are young you are indestructible!
|
#27
|
||||
|
||||
I had a similar thing happen with a concrete block back in the 70s. Had a chevy truck that was going to the junkyard, it had a flat rear tire on it so we jacked it up to remove the tire and wheel to put air in it so we could tow it. Let the truck down, and set it on a block that was handy at the time. The block was upright with the web facing up just like everyone says is the strongest way for them to hold weight, the same way it would be set into a wall.
A few seconds later the truck is on the ground with a bunch of powdered concrete under one of the wheels. This was on the rear of a 1/2 ton rusted out POS, it wasn't even heavy due to the rust, no engine or transmission in it. Fortunately no one was going under it just to change a tire, but I never used a block again to support anything I wanted to remain suspended. My father had warned me about concrete blocks as he was a mechanic also, but until you see one crumble like I did that day, you might half believe it. Although I never did use them for anything I was going to get underneath. At that moment it was handy, and it was going to save me finding something better. Plus commonly when misfortunes happen, we were in a hurry........
__________________
Brad Yost 1973 T/A (SOLD) 2005 GTO 1984 Grand Prix 100% Pontiacs in my driveway!!! What's in your driveway? If you don't take some of the RACETRACK home with you, Ya got cheated Last edited by Sirrotica; 07-18-2020 at 10:21 AM. |
Reply |
|
|