I've read a lot of stuff here and off site as well about jacking up a c5. I was just wondering what methods you guys might have? I'd ultimately like to get the quick jack but the cost and size are a little bit much for my situation. The more I think about it I think the Quick jack is the ticket. Easy, fast, safe and I plan on having this car (or possibly a C6 later) for the rest of my days. What is your comfort woth especially at my age and more importantly piece of mind that the car's not going to fall on you.

 

Use what ever jack you like but install jack stands or blocking if you go under the vehicle. My Chinese Harbor Freight jack seems to work fine.

 

I found quite a bit of info. on you tube about this, try under oil change method.

 

I'm going to try one of those fluid extractors to change my oil. If it works it's a lot of the mess is avoided. Is the Corvette oil pan aluminum too? I don't want to be stripping out ANY threads but if the fluid extractor works that part will be eliminated.

 

A lot of bad guys just run up to a car while it's stopped at an intersection with a Pistol in hand.
Yank the door open and remove the driver by force. Hop in and drive off. It's now yours.



Oh, wait a minute..................................

 

Keep your day job! lol!

 

Check this out for a good post on this matter. It's for a C6, but it applies the same to a C5.

A good floor jack is essential.

The ATD-7325 (same one as the Omega 29023, just under a different badge) is very well regarded here. You can see it .

It's been discussed in depth here.

What really separate this one from the pack, besides its extremely low profile, is its length. It allows you to reach the front and rear crossmembers from the front and rear end of the car respectively, in order to raise the whole axle. It can also accommodate a cross beam adapter like the one Summit offers, allowing you to touch only the preferred jacking points.

 

I considered a pump as well, apparently there is a baffle in oil pan that prevents tube getting into oil pan, I found a internal
pic. of oil pan and it doe's show a baffle.

 

I have both a low profile "racing" jack and a good old fashioned 3 ton floor jack. I use the old one because it has a removable "pad" and I can replace it with this which drops into the jack where the pad normally goes.:




That way, once it is locked into the slot in the frame, there is no chance of the car slipping off the jack for any reason. As my car is lowered some, I drive it up onto a piece of 2x which gives me clearance to get the jack with insert under the car.

Got mine from Mid America. Not sure if anyone else still sells them.

 

OK well so much for that idea.

 

Owners manual give any type of instructions?

Jack, puck if you want and go to it.

 

I just purchased the 5000 lb quick jack and don't have a garage , but had a good size shed built for my tools so everything goes there. they weigh 75 lbs each. It does work great



and is worth it.

 

I opened the thread to post something just like this if nobody else had! Love it.

 

You're a day late and a dollar short. Hopefully you're a better speller than he is "Hope in and drive off" lol!

 

Quick jack FTW. Fast, safe, reasonable price.

they are down to $1k or so. I bought mine a year ago and wonder how I ever lived without it!!

 

Where did you buy it? That's a great price.

 

I just jacked my C5 for the first time last Sunday. It was the first time doing an oil change all by myself too. What I did was jack up the car on one side first using a hockey puck to not damage the bottom of the car. Then I put 2 wooden blocks on the front tire where I raised the car up. It was a good 12 inches off the ground. Then I went to the other side and did the same thing. This got the car raised up enough to fit my low profile jack under the front part of the car. Then I raised the car up high enough to get under, placed in 2, 6 ton jack stands and left my jack in place, giving a tiny bit of support in case the jack stands failed. If both the jack and jack stands failed, I had the wooden blocks that were just 1 inch off from the tires and would still be high enough for me to slip out from under the car to be safe. I didn't want to spend a lot of money right now. I spent about $180 to get a 3 ton jack, a pair of 6 ton jack stands and other things like the hockey pucks and other small things.

But to answer your question for peace of mind, I would place something right under the tires to catch the car if something goes wrong (Just don't raise it too high off the back up stand) and maybe a pair of jack stands just in case everything else fails.

 

I don't think we need to be douchie about it. It was all in good fun.

Spelling has nothing to do with a high speed grammar error.

 

That's pretty much what I did with a few differences. Before I was just getting one side of the car up with pucks, blocks under the tires and two jack stands front and back.
Now my plan is to use a cross member jacking device. It divides the load in two points at or near the preferred jacking points. The low profile jack is at the center. Wheels are chalked in the back. Jack up the front with the jack in the middle of the load splitter. After it's up I'll put two jack stands as close to the preferred jacking points as possible. Then I'll do the same to lift the car in back.

I use would blocks like you do before getting under the car to put my jack stands in place. I'm leery about putting them under the tires so I was thinking the blocks could be placed at the puck points for a much more stable support position. My biggest concern is after you do the front is it possible the car moves forward and slips off of the front jack stands as you're jacking up the back of the car.

 

That's a very nice low-profile floor jack. Kinda pricey, though.