Ruz

Please excuse my ignorance on this one...

I am assuming that the pucks are used to protect the lower body panels from the arm of a hydraulic jack, with the end of the jack lifting the frame at a lift point...is that correct? The pucks aren't meant to be the lifting point, are they?

Is it guaranteed that if you jack the car with a hydraulic jack without using the pucks that you will damage your car?

Cobra2fastforu

jbauch357

Pucks are used as a spacer between the jack (or lifting arm) and the recessed portion of frame that sits higher than the rocker panel of your car. Typically without the pucks the lifting surface will press on the painted portion of your rocker panel, and not directly on the frame - this causing scratches or gouges in the paint. So yes, in this fashion the pucks are meant to be the lifting point.

I have been in some shops that use pucks and others that don't, really what matters is being careful when you lift the car. The shops that didn't use pucks used balled up rags and that distributed the weight enough to not cause scratches in the paint.

Instead of paying an exorbant amount of cash for fabbed up pucks that are aluminum I picked up 4 hockey pucks for a grand total of $8.

Husker67

The puck is placed on the jacks lifting pad. You then position the jack under the car at the lifting points and start lifting. The puck is between the jack and your car. And yes, you will scratch, dent or marr your car without pucks. IMHO

FactoryRaceCar

Pucks are meant to go and get secured in the shipping slots so that you could lift up your car without damaging the rockers.

wamara

Pucks aren't there just to prevent scratches and gouges in the paint; the body panels could get cracked too.

Yello95

The pucks go between the frame and top of jack....Rocker rails are a great solution so you don't have to use the pucks

1celtic1

I'm learning something here also....

OMG

My lifting jack has a huge rubber "ball" on it so I don't need to use a jacking puck. It was only $60 at Sam's club.

However it is steel and quite heavy.

steve8

I recently picked up 8 pucks also @ .99 ea @ Dicks sporting goods. They do the job fine.

Ruz

Different answers here...some say the pucks go in the shipping slots, some say they go between the jack lifting surface and the frame of the vehicle.

Herringchoker

The space used for jacking pucks is tieDOWN point for shipping, if you look closely you will notice the slotted piece is only "spotwelded" to the inside/top of the tin panel and designed for DOWNforce. I've seen posts from members that have had the spotwelds break, and jackstands end up inside that area. Here's a better way, www.zo6vette.com "DYI- Lift your C5 without pucks" What ever you chose, don't forget wheel choks.

steve8

That's really the same thing. If you have eye bolts in the hockey pucks, or if you buy the "real" ones, they go into the slots first, then the jack to the pucks. If you have just the pucks, the pucks would rest on the jack first as a spacer in between the jack and the car. It's still doing the same thing.

Ruz

I see the point now...talk about feeling like an ****. I would try to describe how I was picturing the whole thing, but then I would sound even more like a tool!

Thanks for all your help guys!

steve8

No problem. I've said much dumber things than that!!

Herringchoker

We ALL have.

MagRed04C5

Go to your local BMW dealer and ask to see their jacking pucks.
They clip into the shipping slots and stay there permanently.
You never have to think about them again.
At my local dealer they were $6 x 4 = $24 for piece of mind.

DoctorBrinkley

My home made jacking pucks out of hockey pucks. I will later add pics of the frame slots like I should have. You slip them into the slots and turn them to lock them in.

Who said hockey is a worthless sport?