Crushed and dead are the same, city or country.
ALWAYS double back up and jack at KNOWN good points.
ALWAYS double back up and jack at KNOWN good points.
So the 2x6 scrap was being used as a jack-pad?Ok, ok, ok.... I really didn't mean for this to be some safety briefing and analyzation of what I did. I really meant for it to warn people about making sure their jacks/etc were in good position on jacking points.
1. I had not removed any wheels/tires while jacking the car, nor had I crawled under it before or at the time the jack/block slipped...
2. No, the wheels were not chocked, but the Parking/E-brake was pushed down hard with my big arse putting some serious pressure on it.
3. Yes, I was using a piece of wood, that's what I meant by a piece of 2x6. A scrap piece of 2x6 framing lumber.
4. The center of the framing cross member is a bonafide jacking point, on this car.
5. Yes, I know how much new trucks cost. No, I wouldn't put $12k in a Ram, but I wouldn't have to, I wouldn't own one to start with. Would I put $10k in a new 5.7L Engine in my 2014 Tundra? Yes. But there's historical data proving that would be a great decision; the Tundra isn't likely to fall apart around the engine.
6. No, BlueOvalFitter didn't post in the wrong thread. He was halfway hi-jacking the thread, but also posting some helpful info to the young'uns about making sure you can refill the differentials before draining them.
Now...... back to your spreadsheets and other over-analyzing you need to do today.
Safety is important but you'll never avoid the safety police online. It's a form of virtue signaling. I just hope you were wearing your mask while jacking your car, alone, outside......then at least we know you're a good personAnd since you can't edit threads here -
When I say the "car fell off the jack", It's not like I had it jacked up 24" in the air, I was jacking it up... I wasn't under it, nothing was under it except air. Maybe I should have said "it slipped off while I was raising the front of the car"
When younger and somehow dumber than I am today,, I installed a TTB lift on a FS Bronco with questionable jack stands WAY back on the frame (you kinda have to to get behind the radius arms)...outside in the dirt. I *did* put the jackstands on equally questionable plywood so they would sink into the dirt lessWhen I was young and stupid, I used to go under the car with just the scissor jack. One day, I was helping a friend and went under the car looking at something. Came back out from under car and went into garage to get something (I had the wrong socket I think) came back out and the scissor jack had folded itself in half and the car was resting on the rotor of the front passenger wheel (drivers side still had the tire on it.)
If I had the correct socket initially..........I would have been under there. Shook me up, big time. I still shudder thinking about it now years later.
I have NEVER gone under a vehicle again without proper jack stands (and if tires are off, they go under frame also.
To OP, glad you're okay!
Safety is important but you'll never avoid the safety police online. It's a form of virtue signaling. I just hope you were wearing your mask while jacking your car, alone, outside......then at least we know you're a good person
I’m thinking that is what he meant.So the 2x6 scrap was being used as a jack-pad?
I recently saw the Project farm review...I have 2 3 ton low pro steel HFT from long ago when they were like $80. they seem to be all over YouTube. Besides being heavy, they seem to do well. I also have 2, 1.5 ton that are nice and light, but I prefer the 3 ton. My wife's SUV is 4980 lbs so that's why I got the 3 ton ones.I’m thinking that is what he meant.
I have a HF 1.5 ton aluminum jack that works fine on my accord and her Altima but doesn’t get her daughters jeep or her other daughters 2009 Crv high enough so I use two 2x4 pieces screwed together to help me get it jacked a little higher then put my jack stands in
And more... Said chocks have to be loaded, and have friction with the grdWere the wheels chocked?
Heck yeah!I used to be that way. Now I try to do everything. Heck, if the engine was gone in this thing, I was contemplating going to HF, getting an engine crane, engine stand/etc., another floor jack and looking for a replacement engine and swapping it myself.
Well, unlike some things, jack stands have been proven to be effective.Safety is important but you'll never avoid the safety police online. It's a form of virtue signaling. I just hope you were wearing your mask while jacking your car, alone, outside......then at least we know you're a good person
"Drink deep,or taste not the Pierian spring"(source of knowledge). Remember discussing that poem in literature class too many years ago to want to remember. Thanks big GA little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.