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| Answer to: Car fell off jack! Damages? | 44Relevance | 3 years ago | Kaizen | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| For the future, one trick I use to layer safety upon safety upon safety. For example, I will use jacks, jack stands, wheel chocks, and an actual tire. If possible, I put the tire under the car, near the jack stand, in the case of jack or jack stand failure. I haven't had a jack or jack stand fail yet, but it's always good to be prepared just in case. | |||||
| Answer to: Which hydraulic vehicle jack should I buy | 44Relevance | 4 years ago | Whatchamacallit | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| See below on Scotty’s Amazon page: both hydraulic jack and jack stands are listed there. I have the same jack stands in that link above, but for hydraulic jack I use the Arcan 3-Ton Quick Rise Aluminum floor jack with Dual Pump Pistons & Reinforced Lifting Arm (ALJ3T / A20018) that I got from Amazon years back. I love it but it is pricey. | |||||
| Answer to: Harbor Freight Tools Floor Jack and Stands | 41Relevance | 5 years ago | Chuck Tobias | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Their floor jacks are quite good. jack stands, not so much. (In some cases the replacement jack stands were also defective.) | |||||
| Do you store a floor jack with the valve open or closed? | 41Relevance | 4 years ago | civicdriver_ | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| 2020 Honda Civic LX Sedan, 5000 miles, CVT After I am done using the floor jack, do I store the floor jack with the handle turned all the way counter-clockwise with the valve open, or clockwise with the valve closed? The Harbor Freight manual doesn't specify. Thanks! | |||||
| Answer to: Harbor Freight Tools Floor Jack and Stands | 41Relevance | 5 years ago | toyotagrl | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| We've had this one for 5 yrs now. Never had any issues. | |||||
| Should I use rubber floor or carpet floor mats? | 40Relevance | 4 years ago | Owen Klaassen | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| From mid September last year until about two weeks ago I used rubber floor mats in my car and then I decided to switch them out for the carpet ones for the late part of spring and through the summer. Is this a reasonable idea or should I just use rubber floor mats all year round? Both are floor mats from the manufacturer given to me at the time the car was bought, so neither are very high end just stock floor mats. | |||||
| Answer to: What size floor jack and jack stands should I buy? | 38Relevance | 5 years ago | yaser | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hope this help: | |||||
| How to safely jack up a car with rusted out jacking points? | 38Relevance | 4 years ago | PPineault91 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Good afternoon, I have a question about how to safely jack up my 2008 mazda 3. The car's undercarriage is quite rusted and whenever I try to jack it up on the pinch joints, it sounds like the metal is going to give way ( it already did this once on the drivers side ). I do not have a low profile jack to reach the cross member in the front. On what parts can I safely jack up my vehicle and then place the jack stands on? Thank you. | |||||
| First time tire rotation | 41Relevance | 4 years ago | jediknightkhan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hi Scotty and Friends, Toyota Camry 2020 LE, ~45500, doing my first tire rotation. I read the instructions and know which socket and what torque and the front wheels go back and vice versa; however, I'm not sure how to jack it up. I figure since it's just moving the wheels from front to back, just jack up the side but there's no middle point to jack it from. And yeah, I mean to jack it up and put jack stands in their proper places. Should I jack a front corner, put a stand there, then jack the back corner, and put a stand there, and then repeat on the other side when rotated on one side? I googled a bit about what others were saying, some people say that it's not meant to be jacked on one side and some said use the spare tire as a place holder so just a corner has to be jacked up at a time, even if it takes longer. Please let me know what you all think is best. Thanks. | |||||
| RE: Wheels as jack stands | 38Relevance | 5 years ago | Z-Z | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Theres no guarantee they will collapse but I wouldnt use them as a jack stand alone. Buy some jack stands and set your car on that then for added safety you can easily put the tire underneath the car as well. Pretty sure they wont collapse but jack stand are the safer move. Make sure they are steel jack stands. If you didnt want to use jack stands to just store the car with the wheels off you might try some cinder blocks. | |||||
| Answer to: USING the SCISSOR Jack to jack up the car??? | 36Relevance | 2 years ago | Chuck Tobias | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I don't know what a "tiktoker" is (someone who tokes tics?), but if you can get enough lift with the scissor jack to get the jack stands where they need to go I don't see where it would be a problem. A hydraulic jack is a heck of a lot easier to use though, ramps easier yet. | |||||
| Answer to: Best way to do tire rotation with two jack stands and jack? | 36Relevance | 5 years ago | Whatchamacallit | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I’ve always done it with 4 jack stands (easy and no worries). The way you are describing above - I don’t like the thought of changing the rear tires and let’s say all of a sudden the hydraulic jack gives and the vehicle’s rear falls while you are changing the tire - there is a potential for injury, God forbid you have a limb under the tire while that happens. Having 4 jack stands (as long as correctly placed) eliminates that possibility. | |||||
| Answer to: Problem with harbor freight floor jack. | 36Relevance | 5 years ago | Chuck Tobias | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I have one of those jacks and your experience is definitely not normal. Mine worked great right out of the box and continues to do so after a couple of years. I've never had to add jack oil. You're definitely looking at a defect. As you note though, you are beyond the HF standard 90-day warranty so you cannot bring it back. If it's just a defective seal you may be able to replace it. Also bear in mind the limited capacity of the jack. I only use mine to jack up one corner of a vehicle at a time, not the entire front or back. (I have heavier-duty jacks for that kind of thing.) | |||||
| Harbor Freight Tools Floor Jack and Stands | 35Relevance | 5 years ago | ckieszek | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Would you recommend buying a floor jack and jack stands from Harbor Freight Tools? If so, which brand would you recommend? Need one that is able to lift 3 tons. | |||||