Homemade Pinch Weld Adapter

[TheLawnRanger]

I made a homemade pinch weld adapter. There are few hockey pucks in Mississippi. This Harbor Freight castor was close enough.

 

[Number_35]

The Birmingham Bulls were a long time ago.

Good job on the adapter!

 

[NHGUY]

Don Rickles always thought there were Hockey Pucks everywhere!

 

[Chris142]

Our lift has big rubber pads. It won't fold a pinch weld over like a skinny adapter will.

 

[Ducked]

This'd be OK on a non-rusted car, but I've had a few where I wouldn't have been happy trusting my life to a arbitary point load on a sill.

Its usually possible to find something more convincingly solid.

 

[TheLawnRanger]

I don't have any rust problems. The main reason I made the adapter was that the only other lift point I feel comfortable using is reserved for a jack stand.

 

[tig1]

This is the one I made to be used on my hyd floor jack. Works very well.

 

[Donald]

The factory jack on my Forester uses the pinch weld to prevent the jack from slipping. The weight of the car is supported on either side of the pinch weld, not the actual pinch weld. Any adapter needs to let the pinch weld go all the way in without bottoming out.

 

[tig1]

Originally Posted By: Donald
The factory jack on my Forester uses the pinch weld to prevent the jack from slipping. The weight of the car is supported on either side of the pinch weld, not the actual pinch weld. Any adapter needs to let the pinch weld go all the way in without bottoming out.


As mine does.