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Race Director
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 10,554
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From: Not on either liberal coast.
I'm using a 4 ton bottle jack from NAPA.
FYI, some jacking trays will not work with a bottle jack, especially if your car is lowered. It's iffy even with a stock height car. My adjustable jacking bridge is C-channel steel, allowing me to reverse it and allowing the bottle jack to sit lower.
I also use a 2 ton under hoist tri-pod jack from HARBOR FREIGHT. I had to replace all of the soft Chinese fasteners with grade 8 though.
FYI, some jacking trays will not work with a bottle jack, especially if your car is lowered. It's iffy even with a stock height car. My adjustable jacking bridge is C-channel steel, allowing me to reverse it and allowing the bottle jack to sit lower.
I also use a 2 ton under hoist tri-pod jack from HARBOR FREIGHT. I had to replace all of the soft Chinese fasteners with grade 8 though.
Race Director
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 10,179
Likes: 2,306
From: Wesley Chapel, FL Las Vegas, NV
I have 4 bottle jacks. 2 small and 2 large.
The jack trays that come with most 4 posters do no allow enough room between the tray and the bottom of the car to get a bottle jack in place.
I had a local welder weld 3" x 1" 1/4" angle on the ends of 8" channel to make a recessed tray so the bottom of the tray is dropped 3" lower the the standard tray. I think I tossed the guy $20 for it.
Works perfect.
The jack trays that come with most 4 posters do no allow enough room between the tray and the bottom of the car to get a bottle jack in place.
I had a local welder weld 3" x 1" 1/4" angle on the ends of 8" channel to make a recessed tray so the bottom of the tray is dropped 3" lower the the standard tray. I think I tossed the guy $20 for it.
Works perfect.
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Joined: Aug 1999
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From: Should this thoughtful, valuable contribution meet with no acknowledgement or 'thanks' this post----
AutoBarn has a geat scissor jack...buy 2, of course. Anything else will not work. I got free shipping and 10% off when I ordered mine.
http://www.autobarn.net/mvp22lbhydsc.html
http://www.autobarn.net/mvp22lbhydsc.html