[Z06] Jacking Pucks?
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Instructor
Joined: Jun 2008
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From: Avon Indiana
Jacking Pucks?
I've had my '04 Z06 only a couple of weeks, but I've lurked on this forum since June. I've heard a lot about jacking pucks but don't quite understand their importance. I have always done my own brake work, oil changes, and so on, on my vehicles. When I grab my floor jack for a job, I've usually just grabbed one of my ex-wife's many cheesy, thick Danielle Steel novels and placed it in the cup of my jack to protect wherever I placed the jack, and that has worked great for many years (and I still have a healthy supply of cheesy romance novels).
Do I really need expensive jacking pucks?
Do I really need expensive jacking pucks?
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2006
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From: Goose Creek SC
I've had my '04 Z06 only a couple of weeks, but I've lurked on this forum since June. I've heard a lot about jacking pucks but don't quite understand their importance. I have always done my own brake work, oil changes, and so on, on my vehicles. When I grab my floor jack for a job, I've usually just grabbed one of my ex-wife's many cheesy, thick Danielle Steel novels and placed it in the cup of my jack to protect wherever I placed the jack, and that has worked great for many years (and I still have a healthy supply of cheesy romance novels).
Do I really need expensive jacking pucks?
Do I really need expensive jacking pucks?
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: LaPine Oregon
Just for protection............
The rocker body panel rolls under the car. The jack puck locates to the frame and not the body panel. I use a combo frame guard and jack pucks[IMG]http:
//[/IMG] Its your car , but damage has resulted from not using jack pucks.
//[/IMG] Its your car , but damage has resulted from not using jack pucks.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2006
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From: Jupiter FL
I bought a set of those billet jacking pucks when I got my first Z06. They are great, fit the slots in the car, and I've more than gotten my money's worth out of them, especially with the scissor lift. Unfortunately, I lost one up at Lime Rock this summer. Still don't know how that happened, I've been so careful with them. So if anyone has a spare one laying around that they want to get rid of, PM me. 
Tech Contributor
Joined: Oct 1999
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From: Charlotte, NC (formerly Endicott, NY)
I bought my 97 before the pucks were generally available and for several years used a 6 inch long piece of 2x4. I only used it at the front jacking points as you can lift the whole side of the car from one point.
Bill
Bill
