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Old 01-27-11, 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by FIGS
I use a hocky puck as well to jack on the body seams to prevent folding. And since you cannot put a jackstand where the Jack is when its up, I typically placen them on the boxed unibody frame rail, the rear suspension subframe or anywhere else that is substantial and will hold the stand secure.

wow that's creative - now where da heck do I find a hockey puck!
Old 01-27-11, 06:31 PM
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your local sporting goods store.. only $2 each...
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I can't find the front jack point... do you need to remove any cover to reach it?
Old 06-09-12, 03:54 PM
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front jack point will be difficult to reach on the majority of cars, especially if theyre lowered, even with one of these
i have to drive my tires onto a piece of 2x4 just to get anotheer jack under the car to raise it enough to get my low profile jack under the front crossmember.
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I just decided to develop a jack point weight distributor today. A rough prototype but it worked great on our lift. Even with the puck we jack so much on the car that our seams were starting to flare. I spent $600 to get them repaired and wanted to keep them healthy. So I made these today.




I had prototyped this with a block of wood, this the missing paint. But these aluminum extrusions and urethane pads kept things perfect after a long day on the lift.
I will probably productize these over the next few months.
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And I'll buy them in a second! Let me know when they're available.
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Personally...just me though...but if you have to ask or can't figure out where the best places to place the car on jack stands...perhaps you shouldn't be working on the car. Once you've put up one car on jack stands properly, it's pretty much the same with all cars...rear diff/rear sub frame, front sub frame, side supports, or anything that has an "eye-let" on it that a tow truck would you to secure your car down.

Typically, these are all reinforced areas. I'm just saying this because there have been incidents on the web that I've read about (last one I remember reading was one on S2ki.com, where the car fell off and the guy was killed by his car.
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Fig

Any word on putting these into production yet? TAKE MY MONEY!

Thx

Dan
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I would buy them as well!
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Originally Posted by Just F Me
Personally...just me though...but if you have to ask or can't figure out where the best places to place the car on jack stands...perhaps you shouldn't be working on the car. Once you've put up one car on jack stands properly, it's pretty much the same with all cars...rear diff/rear sub frame, front sub frame, side supports, or anything that has an "eye-let" on it that a tow truck would you to secure your car down.

Typically, these are all reinforced areas. I'm just saying this because there have been incidents on the web that I've read about (last one I remember reading was one on S2ki.com, where the car fell off and the guy was killed by his car.
my thoughts exactly
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Fig, I'm ready to buy when they are available.
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I was working through finishes on the parts and making some end caps. I might do a short run of them right now as is and then clean them up later. with some billet end caps. In any case they could be added on. I like to make things look cool haha. I will get it going.
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I'm interested as well

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I'm interested as well
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did some work to finish things up. Making the endplates soon and should be ready to go. center sections should be here in 10 days or so.
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