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Originally Posted by thisMSGgood4me
A jack like the one you pictured should work fine without pucks. The lifting pad of the jack is small and flat and should fit well within the area inside the rocker panels so as not to damage them. Many of us use floor jacks that have larger, round lifting pads that need pucks to give them sufficient clearance to prevent crushing an edge of the rocker panel.
Also, the places that change tires use floor-jacks as well. Gotta make sure they use the pucks or you'll be sorry.
The only problem is if you do not live in the cold area of the country where ice hockey is played, the pucks are not available at the sport shops. Need to order them on line. Minimal shipping cost from 'Dicks'.
Hockey is played pretty much everywhere. I am in florida and can find pucks in every sport shop.
Hockey pucks work great and don't break. You can drill a hole and put a bolt through the center to keep aligned and in place. Total investment under $10.
Are jackpoints recessed on all C5s? My 2000 FRC worked just fine when I jacked it last weekend. I just made sure I cleared the body panel. Mind you, i didn't use a floor jack, just a generic jack like the one below.
These are exactly what I use. Picked up four of them at Wally World and threw the crank handle away and use a rechargeable drill with a 15/16" socket. I can lift all four tires off the ground in under 5 minutes without even breaking a sweat. I liked them so much I bought 4 more to keep in the race trailer for use at the track.
These are super low profile and you don't need any sort of pucks....for around $25.00 each they are hard to beat (especially for lazy dudes like me, lol)
I too use the "leave-in-pace" plastic jacking pucks. While I've not experienced what you did, I did break 1 on initial install trying to seat it against a homemade rubber gasket (used to keep them tight in the slot.)
I should've canned em then, but now I have to b/c the recesses on the new frame savers/sliders I got don't fit around the plastic pucks.
I have a traditional heavy duty floor jack with a removable pad, with a machined metal adapter which replaces the pad, designed to fit into the slot in the chassis jacking points. Once in place, nothing can move. Does the job nicely, but since I lowered the car a little, I now have to run it up on some scrap 2x lumber to get the jack under.
They have worked well for me but I would see the aluminum ones as an added safety factor. Though ultimately I want to install a MaxJax 2 post lift in my garage.
Hockey pucks work great and don't break. You can drill a hole and put a bolt through the center to keep aligned and in place. Total investment under $10.
15 years ago, there was thread using BMW hard rubber jacking puck. They snapped into place at the jacking points. I purchased 4 of them and left them...they have been in place ever since. Since then I have gone through 3 different floor jacks--autocrossing, hpde, time trials, etc. Also I have gone from Hoosiers to street tires, changed oil, trans, clutch, suspension etc. and the jacking pucks look good as new.
As I recall they came from an E36 BMW and with the BMW tax were about $24.00.
If you decide you don't want to make any and would rather have metal I picked up a set last week from supporting vendor Southern Car Parts. They had the Billets on sale for $54.95. Shipped quickly no issues.
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