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| Answer to: Parking brake broke | 35Relevance | 4 years ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| When you put the car in park on an incline, it creeps until the parking pawl latches into a notch in a gear-like disc on the output shaft. The parking pawl is basically an arm that can pivot. The gaps in between the teeth of the gear and a tooth on the arm match each other, locking up the shaft. The other end of the arm pivots on the transmission case. There are return springs, etc, but that's the gist of how it works. When you leave the car without the parking brake on while on an incline, the weight of the car is trying to shear off the tooth on the parking pawl, and the tooth of the gear. Your car staying in place is riding on 2" of metal, at most 1/4" wide. The same kind of stress is on the screw of an emergency scissor jack when you raise a car. The weight on the jack is wanting to shear the threads off the stud (causing it to collapse), but there are enough threads to stop it, unless you exceed the weight limit. You don't get under a car on a jack without a jack stand, right? Think of the parking brake as a jack stand with the parking pawl as the jack. Try to figure out where the cable broke and repair it. I cringe when I see people park on inclines and their car creeps until the pawl catches and it rocks back and forth. My truck's parking brake didn't work when I got it, and this made me fix it. | |||||
| Answer to: How to safely lift Ford Fusion 2013 with floor jack and jack stands | 33Relevance | 2 years ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I also had a 2013 Fusion and encountered the same thing. Depending on what you're working on, you might invest in some Rhino ramps for oil changes and stuff like that. Then, you won't need to jack up the car, you can drive on the ramps. | |||||
| RE: 2 ton or 3 ton jack? | 33Relevance | 3 years ago | MrBob | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| If it has a rating of lets say 3 tons then it should be as durable as it's equivalent in a 3 ton steel jack. The problem lies in relying on a hydraulic jack on wheels to support the car while you are working on it. The jack can slip from under the car with even minor rocking. It's not designed to stabilize the car only lift it up. jack stands are made to stabilize. The rule that I go by is the car wants to kill you. | |||||
| Answer to: Jack | 33Relevance | 5 years ago | InThrustWeTrust | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Nope. I wouldn’t risk it. The standard jack can barely lift the car safely at the hoisting points, let alone jacking the engine. Buy a dedicated jack & jack stands designed for such use. You don’t want the car slipping/falling off the factory jack. | |||||
| GMC Envoy frame bent by jack | 33Relevance | 5 years ago | ccates18 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I was trying to jack up my Envoy and I use the frame right after the stabilizer bar. I'm scared to jack it up here again. Any diagrams showing where a 2007 GMC Envoy Denalis jack points and jack stand points are? | |||||
| RE: Using a Scissor jack to change oil? | 32Relevance | 10 months ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| @chucktobias My Mustang is a pain in the rear end to jack up with a floor jack. Ford hid the pinch welds behind a side skirt, and I'm always paranoid that the side skirt may break if I were to attempt to jack it up. Ford didn't produce scissor jacks with Mustangs from the factory, and you had to special order one. Ford put an emergency tire kit in the spare tire well instead. Ford cheaped out. Whole lotta good that'll do if your sidewall blows out. That happened to my wife 5 years ago and we had to wait for three hours for a tow truck. | |||||
| PCV issues | 34Relevance | 3 years ago | Alan84 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... and AWD with the ZF 9-speed "hybrid" transaxle. This is a direct-injection engine; I am not yet perfectly sure whether it has the extra port injectors. There are 2 little plastic-bodied diaphragm-type PCV valves, one on either valve cover, that are teed common, and connected to a nipple on the "air cleaner output duct" which I will hereafter call the air-case. The air-only intake manifold is physically below the air-case. Nothing that I do makes vacuum register at this nipple, so how can the PCV system operate? The intake manifold vacuum (at the EVAP p ... | |||||
| Best way to do tire rotation with two jack stands and jack? | 30Relevance | 5 years ago | tylzhang | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| With only two jacks, you could jack up one side, swap tires front to back and repeat for otherside. Seems solid but tires stay on the same side. What about jacking up front, two stands in the front, and then just using the jack on the rear? No one is under the car with just a rotation, but is it recommended? | |||||
| Does anyone know what this screw is on a daytona 3 ton low profile floor jack? | 30Relevance | 4 years ago | civicdriver_ | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| 2020 Honda Civic Sedan LX, 5000 miles, CVT Does anyone know what this screw is on a Daytona 3 ton low profile jack? I almost thought it was the oil fill plug because in the manual there are only 3 screws under the plate but there are 4. Does anyone know what the screw circled in red is? I unscrewed it and screwed it back on once I realized it wasn't the oil fill plug. I bled the jack and everything works fine, I lifted the car and everything seems normal but I am still a bit paranoid. Thanks! Link in case pic too small: | |||||
| My jack failed and the jackstand pushed the metal floor board up how do I fix this? | 29Relevance | 2 years ago | Igandara | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I have 1990 Plymouth laser its a manual, my issue is while I was trying to jack up my car my jackstand failed and I wasn’t able to quickly pull my jackstand out of the way or into position so the car with all its weight bearing down on the jackstand pushed the metal floorboard up on the driver side so now I have to move my foot awkwardly over this big bump on the floor so I can use the clutch… how should I fix this? | |||||
| Toyota Yaris 2007 clutch master cylinder biting point adjstment | 33Relevance | 5 years ago | uber83 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hello, Recently, I bought Toyota Yaris 2007, 1.3 VVT-i, MT, Engine: 2SZFE, French build, LHD, 114 000 km. I've a problem with the clutch pedal biting point, which is fully down to the floor for all of the gears. Sometimes when I try to shift into Reverse (even if the clutch pedal is fully depressed) a grinding noise is heard when I move the gear shift. If I push the pedal fully down on the floor, shift into 1st gear and release the pedal even 1-2 mm higher than the floor, I can feel that the car starts moving. Sometimes when I drive and switch from 1-st to ... | |||||
| RE: My car is stranded on my jack! | 33Relevance | 4 years ago | Kaizen | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Initially, I took the handle out to create space. Right before I took it out, the part it connects to was parallel to the ground. When I went to take out the handle, that part spring buck up to 90 degrees. The jack was too far under the car to reattach the handle. And the jack wouldn’t budge up with out the leverage of the handle. Nor could it budge down because the release mechanism is part of the stick. After trying pliers, sockets, anything I had to try to release the mechanism, it wouldn’t work. But then, I saw there was a panel I could remove, that didn’t seem Intergral to the stability of the jack. Removed the panel, and used some hose pliers to clamp down on the “shaft” and rotated the direction it needed to go to release the jack down. Got lucky. Otherwise I would have needed to somehow rejack the car higher. | |||||
| Answer to: Can my 3 ton craftsman jack stands support my truck? | 32Relevance | 3 years ago | nta98 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... are made out of solid steel and looked like they were in good shape. Your truck weighs up to 5100 lbs. Assuming the stands will see more than half the vehicle weight, that's 3000lbs on both stands, or 1500 per stand. So you're at half what's rated, that shouldn't be an issue. I always leave the floor jack under the car with just a bit of load on it too once I set my car on jack stands, just as an extra safety measure. They're probably fine, they don't really go bad unless there's an obvious issue. But if you're concerned at all they're not expensiv ... | |||||
| Brake pedal goes to the floor | 31Relevance | 3 years ago | GT86 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... take it back and tell them. She took it back and re bled the brakes and had a good pedal. Few months go by the pedal goes soft again she takes it back them and the mechanic said that's just how ABS brakes which i knew was BS. It eventually gets even worse so I buy a new master cylinder and put it on and bled the system manually no scanner as i don't have one. Pedal gets no better so i take to another shop thinking maybe it needs to pressure bleed and scanner bled.The shop comes back and says the Master cylinder is bad even though it's new, they put on anoth ... | |||||