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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Floor jack for 2001 buick park avenue | 35Relevance | 3 years ago | sophistikage | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hey guys. DO you think 1.5 tons is safe enough to jack up 1 wheel at a time on my 2001 buick parka venue? harbor freights got them for 89 bucks this weekend. | |||||
| Answer to: moving heavy trolley jack to use | 35Relevance | 4 years ago | Chuck Tobias | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Given that's its a relatively small and light car you could consider a lighter aluminum jack. It would be a lot easier to move around. Always use jack stands, don't trust any jack to hold the car up when you're under it. | |||||
| Answer to: Harbor Freight Tools Floor Jack and Stands | 35Relevance | 5 years ago | toyotagrl | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| We've had this one for 5 yrs now. Never had any issues. | |||||
| Thoughts on plastic car ramps for DIY repair? | 33Relevance | 4 years ago | alban123 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hello Everyone. A close relative of mine just bought a pair of plastic/resin car ramps from Walmart for about $40 and they are rated at about 6,000 Lb.'s. I'm a person who has always used a good old jack and jack stands, but I know that these ramps are generally considered to be more practical and potentially even safer than jack stands. Would love to know your thoughts on these or any positive or negative experiences. Thank you. | |||||
| Answer to: How long until…? | 33Relevance | 4 years ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| You can independently verify the dealer mechanic's claims in 15 minutes if you have a jack, some jack stands and a rubber mallet lying around. jack up the car, stick stands under it, then slide underneath and tap on the converters with the mallet. If they rattle, they're breaking down inside and will need replacing at some point if you live in an e-check area. | |||||
| RE: AWD tire spin on jack stands | 37Relevance | 5 years ago | Jackson | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... Grr... I think it's either the caliper or the abs module, or the brake master cylinder... This car is kicking my butt, can the master cylinder cause both front brakes to drag, or just one to drag at times? I'm trying to figure it out.. but it's kicking my butt. History on the Car: 2004 Audi Allroad 2.7T Current Symptoms – Wheel drag slowing car, and eventually locking up tires so car doesn’t move. History: August 27 - Rear right brake seemed to be dragging on jack stands – when pushing the emergency lever up, it seemed to free brakes. – Emergency br ... | |||||
| Answer to: Parking brake broke | 35Relevance | 4 years ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... 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 i ... | |||||
| RE: Safely jacking up a vehicle | 33Relevance | 5 years ago | RocketmAAn | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Think you may have misread. recommending using jack stands like Scotty encourages, not just a jack. Do I understand you to say that you would use tires as jack stands. I think that my head and chest are bigger than the width of the wheel. | |||||
| 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? | |||||
| Answer to: What size floor jack and jack stands should I buy? | 32Relevance | 5 years ago | Glen_stet | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Tools on the upper right of this page will give you Scotty's recommendations | |||||
| Answer to: Buying new jack | 31Relevance | 5 years ago | Chuck Tobias | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I like these, they are a bit expensive but very well made. (I have an older set of made-in-USA stands similar to these.) | |||||
| Answer to: Rattling noise 2000 Honda Civic 98k | 29Relevance | 4 years ago | jxyooj71 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Yeah it does come with a jack, but I'll invest on another jack since using one alone isn't safe? | |||||
| 08 CRV EXL rust in rear pinch welds | 33Relevance | 6 months ago | gusbus148 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... small things to change out and then I got to the rear struts. I jacked up the rear of the car and put jack stands under the pinch welds and a solid wood ramp under the rear tires. I then jacked up the front of the CRV by the front cross member and as I did that, the rear pinch welds disintegrated and the rear of the CRV fell onto the rear wooden ramps. At the end of this video you can see where the rear pinch welds were. I ended up putting the jack stands under the rear cross member and using a bottle jack for extra insurance when I changed the rear struts ... | |||||
| Safely jacking up a vehicle | 33Relevance | 5 years ago | RocketmAAn | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Thank you for all your info Scotty. While reading a critical review of yourself, I read something that I also noticed in a video. While encouraging the use of jack stands (a video that I haven't seen yet), you appear to have ignored that advice in a few videos. It may have worked for you, but the guy watching that doesn't use the jack exactly right or uses the one that came with the car which when cranked up, can be tipped over just by giving the car a good shove, needs to know to USE THE stands. If you didn't cover it, for the occasion where the ground ... | |||||
| 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 d ... | |||||