Jack stand question
02-01-2007, 12:50 PM
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that plastic cover over the frame rail could be covering your fuel lines, watch out. A good spot for stands if you can reach it, is the aluminum cross bar between the two a-arms, it would be impossible to dent that thing.
02-01-2007, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by M758
Front I used the caster block.
If I need to get to the control arm I used the frame. I do have bends in the sheet metal
In the rear I used the t-bar support, not the t-bar end cap.
Nice flat surface and no concerns about bending the t-bar end cap tube.
If I need to get to the control arm I used the frame. I do have bends in the sheet metal
In the rear I used the t-bar support, not the t-bar end cap.
Nice flat surface and no concerns about bending the t-bar end cap tube.
02-01-2007, 01:34 PM
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On 911's it's typical practice to use the torsion tube or the cover to support the rear. So it should be fine on a 944. Although I never used it on my 944.
Dan, I never had any problems with denting, although my undercoating did get peeled away from the jack stands at the frame rails in the front.
One suggestion I saw is to use multiple sheets of news paper as a buffer between the car and the jack stand. I've also seen (I can't remember where) rubber covers that are made to fit over the top of the jack stands. Maybe search the internet see if you can find them.
Dan, I never had any problems with denting, although my undercoating did get peeled away from the jack stands at the frame rails in the front.
One suggestion I saw is to use multiple sheets of news paper as a buffer between the car and the jack stand. I've also seen (I can't remember where) rubber covers that are made to fit over the top of the jack stands. Maybe search the internet see if you can find them.
02-01-2007, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by arbeitm
On 911's it's typical practice to use the torsion tube or the cover to support the rear. So it should be fine on a 944. Although I never used it on my 944.
Dan, I never had any problems with denting, although my undercoating did get peeled away from the jack stands at the frame rails in the front.
One suggestion I saw is to use multiple sheets of news paper as a buffer between the car and the jack stand. I've also seen (I can't remember where) rubber covers that are made to fit over the top of the jack stands. Maybe search the internet see if you can find them.
Dan, I never had any problems with denting, although my undercoating did get peeled away from the jack stands at the frame rails in the front.
One suggestion I saw is to use multiple sheets of news paper as a buffer between the car and the jack stand. I've also seen (I can't remember where) rubber covers that are made to fit over the top of the jack stands. Maybe search the internet see if you can find them.
02-01-2007, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by jeeper31
I used a hockey puck the other day and is seemed to protect it although if is slipped I would have been pucked!!!
Try one of your old Panorama magazines. They might work...at least they would be useful for something.
02-01-2007, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by jeeper31
That looks very sturdy in the rear but in the front....unless it is just the angle it looks like not much is actually sitting on the jack stand.
Well in that picture the car is not even on the jack stand there. With 4 jack stands and not level ground it is pretty common to have the car 3 pointing it. Even so that mount may not look really solid, but as long as you are careful when raising & lowering it will hold just fine. I always put one of the bolts in the midde of jackstand.
02-01-2007, 04:12 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by M758
Well in that picture the car is not even on the jack stand there. With 4 jack stands and not level ground it is pretty common to have the car 3 pointing it. Even so that mount may not look really solid, but as long as you are careful when raising & lowering it will hold just fine. I always put one of the bolts in the midde of jackstand.
02-02-2007, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by jeeper31
three pointing it. Been there. Not too comforting.
