FabianS

So, I went out and bought myself a nice low floor jack for working on my car, and I intend to replace my lower valve cover gaskets, and timing chain grommets. I need to jack my car up to do so, and was cusious if the jack stands I have currently will do the trick? I have the type that have a long flat top section with an indentation in the middle...they are not round on top. Will these do the trick? I intend on taking my engine cover off this weekend, and from then on jacking the back of the car up from the engine seam as seen in a how to that one of the members posted. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Slow Guy

A popular jack stand with the RL 993 crowd are the Esco (sp ?) stands. They have a round (4 in dia ??) top with a rubber cap. Personally I also use a hockey puck on top of them to keep the plastic tray from getting caught. This is not to say you can't get the flat-V stands to work but they're generally used on axles or the auto frame, something we don't do on the 993's.

Maybe someone here uses that style stand and can tell you were best to place them.

bruce7

I would put a hockey puck on top of the jackstand as a cushion between the
car and the jackstand. Also, use one in the saddle of the floor jack to cushion
when jacking the car at the jack points and under the engine. The photo below
shows one of my jackstands ready to slide into place.

-bruce

FabianS

Awesome, that'll work. My new jack has a rubber cushion on top of the the jacking pad...should this suffice?

kbc993

You should check out Jackpoint Jackstands. Jay Leno's Garage rencently did a video segment on the stands (jaylenosgarage.com). I use them on my Cup car and 993.

bruce7

Probably. How thick is it? The hockey pucks are good because they are firm
yet deform enough to prevent marring the car.

Slow Guy

Personally I wouldn't dream of using that setup. Too easy for the puck to slide and fall off the stand.

TONY AIR C2S

+1 on jackpoint and esco jack stands

FabianS

Those are pretty sweet, but man are they pricey!

bruce7

Seems pretty secure. The only thing I would worry about here is being
under the car when the next earthquake hits...

-bruce

JB 911

Bruce, you should try the esco, you'll love them. Your set up was my first and I did not like the side to side movement. Sure, nobody's pushing on the car, but if they did ...

Quadcammer

oh god who cares. the saddle jackstands you can get at parts stores are fine. if you are that concerned about marring the bottom, pay out the *** for esco

bruce7

Thinking about the safety issue some more, there's a couple of things
you can do to lessen the chances of getting hurt from a falling car.
In the photo below you can see how my car is when it has been jacked up.
Notice that I use the lowest position of the stand, it cannot go any lower.
That lessens the chances of the jack itself slipping. The second thing to notice
is the use of wood blocks under the wheels. They are touching the wood or
almost touching. Of course if you've removed the wheels then you would lose
that margin of safety. But, you could then slide the wheels in between the
jack stands and if the car fell it would fall on wheels and hopefully keep you
from being crushed. But if you didn't want to mar the wheels if it fell, you
could put something else there, large wood blocks or something. Just some
thoughts.

-bruce

MartinC2S

If that rubber pad that came with the jack is anything like the one that came with my jack (Michelin aluminum low profile jack from Crappy Tire) I would say it's not nearly good enough. I use an old 2 inch thick VW motor mount on top the the standard pad whenever I lift any vehicle, not just the Porsche. Also, Princess Auto on occasion carries a cheaper alternative to the Esco jack stand.

x50type

Jackpoint stands nice but..........$299 and up each.

http://www.jackpointjackstands.com/