Jacking up the car..

[adam1942]

Don't I feel stupid.. I was sitting making "pucks" out of wood for my axel stands so I could jack up the car and take off my existing wheels to paint them.. I failed twice and the wood split.. probably best it split whilst working on it and not on the car :o

 

 

Anyway.. I gave up and came in side.. Only to remember that I was moving wheels around in the garage to get to my tools to make the puck..

 

What a tool I am! Just threw the old wheels on the motor and retrieved the wheels that required painting!

 

Edited March 29, 2013 by adam1942

[DoogyRev]

I hope your pucks were not Balsa Wood

[adam1942]

hah nah they where pine from what I could see just seemed to be very very dry and brittle!

[DoogyRev]

hah nah they where pine from what I could see just seemed to be very very dry and brittle!

 

Hard Wood are the way forward

 

Pine is not much stronger than Balsa

[dErZ]

I purchased some hockey pucks and cut a groove in them so I could jack the car using the sills.

[Madhatter]

I purchased some hockey pucks and cut a groove in them so I could jack the car using the sills.

 

That's a bloody good idea!

[dErZ]

 

And i just ebayed ice hockey puck

 

http://www.ebay.co.u...984.m1497.l2649

Edited March 31, 2013 by dErZ

[adam1942]

I thought pine was a hard wood

 

I checked local sports shops for hockey pucks but they had none and I was in a rush.. so decided to give the wood I had in the garage a go!

[Supratad]

Pine is a softwood. You could use it but you'd have to make sure the load was going across the grain, not in line with it. So the weight crushing the fibres, not forcing them apart.

I had this problem on the Supra and ended up crushing the crimped rail in ignorance. I now have a large piece of angle iron to use with a trolley jack, but hockey pucks on the axle stands seems a good idea, as long as there's no risk of them slipping off.

[amstrange1]

Hockey puck is a good shout, though I've been using the wood option on my other cars for yonks.