Does anyone really use jacking pucks...
Melting Slicks
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From: Florence SC
St. Jude Donor '12
I use mine too...I keep them in a small tire repair kit I keep in the back along with a small air pump, since I run the non-runflats. Never been a question as to where they were.
Race Director
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From: Dow IL
St. Jude Donor '10
Racer
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From: Mississippi Gulf Coast
I have little black rubber type ones that pop into place and stay there... Now sometimes with my jack the puck may come out and be stuck in the jack and i have to pry it out. But i use em.
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Pro
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From: Riverside, California
Do a thread search for the BMW jacking pucks. They pop in and stay in. You never have to worry about them again. What if by some chance you have to have someone else, jack the car. These are reasonable and remove any future concerns about, are they in, where did I put them, etc.
I've got these permanent ones on my lowered C5. Never a problem with them and I just like the fact that they're on there should the situation arise where the car goes on a lift. I feel safer this way.
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Drifting
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From: St Louis MO
The jacking puck concentrates the pressure on the frame. A folded towel doesn't do diddly. The pressure could still be on the panel and could crack it. Hockey pucks are a cheap and effective way to go or you can buy the commercial pucks. Either ones are cheaper than having to fix a cracked panel.
Burning Brakes
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Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10
When I took my vette to a GoodYear shop for tires, I asked the guy if they know to use pucks when lifting a Corvette. He looked at me and said pucks??? He called his senior mechanic over, and asked him. He said pucks??? So, I took them outside, pulled my pucks out, and showed them how to install them, and made sure they only lifted by them.
Team Owner
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I use hockey pucks with eye bolts through them. But before I had those, I just used a piece of 2x4 that I'd cut down to size. You really can use anything just so long as you don't put any weight on the body panel.
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They are not a scam. GM calls them out in the Service Manual as a specific tool (J 43625 -
Lift Pad Adapters) to be used in the rear shipping slots when raising the car on a lift. They do this since there isn't enough room in the body panel opening to fit a lift pad. They do not call for them at the front shipping slots as there is enough room to fit a lift pad under the frame without contacting the body panel. Most of the ones on the market are not made by GM's official tool supplier (SPX).
Bill Dearborn