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I was searching for a way to jack the back of the car up at once to put the car up on stands and came across these 2- one was from an earlier thread from Dynomite and the other from zr1 specialist. I know there used to be an adapter from gadgetman that would fit in between the exhaust and and would jack on the rear end casing which looks like these would as well. I wondered if anyone has tried either of these or has seen either in use on a regular c4?
The ZR1 can then be driven off the ramps when work is completed without any further use of a floor jack. The adapter can be positioned on a floor jack lift pad and rolled under the spare tire area directly under the rear spring mount just behind the stock exhaust system.
The adapter is a 4 inch OD by 3/8 wall extra strong pipe section 5 inches long.
The pipe adapter is captured between the rear spring mount bolts, exhaust, spare tire on the ZR1 and by the floor jack lift pad which is usually cupped securing the pipe adapter from lateral movement.
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This is the Corvette Gadgett Man's adaptor that I used on my 96 LT4. I liked it because it is very sturdy, fits between the rear exhaust pipes and has a thick rubber piece to protect the rear housing. Their customer service was professional, generous and fast. They used this pic I took of my car in their advertising.
i prefer to side jack when I want to get all four up off the ground. While the tools will jack the back, and if that's all you want there fine, but jacking back and front gets a little tougher.
i prefer to side jack when I want to get all four up off the ground. While the tools will jack the back, and if that's all you want there fine, but jacking back and front gets a little tougher.
Jack under the mirror and the whole side will go up. Place jackstands at the jack points and repeat on the other side. Whole car up in a couple of minutes.
I've used those center adapters before and never liked how much the car would move until got the jack stands under it.
If you do a lot of work on cars, owning two jacks are worth their weight in gold.
the primary reason I was looking for something a little easier to put the back wheels on ramps - I thought the "all at once approach". might be a little easier
I have a couple of floor jacks - did you get the rubber with the notch for the pinch weld?
I saw some kind of aluminum one I think also - supposed to fit without damaging the rocker
You don't need hockey pucks or any other kind of puck, to prevent damage to the pinch weld. The pinch weld was designed to be the car's jacking point! It says so...right on the panel next to the pinch weld!
Jack the car where the car's engineer's told you to. It's fast, it's easy, and it's how the 'Vette team designed the car to be raised.
I raised my car the other day to do the rear brakes. I did one side, put stands under it, went around to the other side, lifted and put stands under it. From floor to safely jack standed....4 minutes. You're wasting more time posting about how to raise a C4, than it would take you to do it the way GM tells your (right on the car) to do it. *I* wasted more time telling you how to do what the car already tells you to do, than it took me to raise my own car.
The car is 30ish years old now. The car tells you how to lift it. The owners manual tells you how to lift it. Why are people still trying to invent new ways to lift the thing??
thanks - I am looking to put the car (all 4 wheels) up cribs or 4 ramps so the wheels are supported - personally I feel a little safer under the car that way. if I need to get into the suspension or something else that requires wheel removal I will obviously have not choice but to use the stands. I think this will work as I should be able to get it to this point, then go higher to put it on the wheel cribs.
Keep in mind that cribbing isn't engineered...and jack stands are. Why people feel "safer" with home made, janky contraptions under their wheels compared to engineered stands placed under engineered support points on the car, is beyond me. As you were, though. People are going to do what they're going to do, regardless of the logic.
Those tire stands have a 1.5 ton capacity for the pair. More than enough, but a lot lower than the stands that I have.
My stands are ratcheting WITH a safety pin as a back up.
Depending on the job, some times I'll throw the wheel/tires under the car as a secondary backup which does two things:
1. Gets the wheel/tires out of my way in the shop
2. is a back up to the jack stands.
what kind did you find with a safety pin back up - ?
I found U.S. Jack, D-41609 3-Ton Heavy Duty Rachet Jack Stand - they have some sort of double catch - but the safety pin back up is certainly a nice feature
jack options?
Jack under the mirror and the whole side will go up. Place jackstands at the jack points and repeat on the other side. Whole car up in a couple of minutes.
*I* wasted more time telling you how to do what the car already tells you to do, than it took me to raise my own car. 
