I just purchased headers that I plan to install over the winter. I am thinking of cribs for two reasons.

1. It makes me feel a little more safe than jack stands.
2. I can have the car on cribs as long as I want and not have to worry about suspension issues in the event that it takes me several weekends to install headers (Im in no rush when I can't drive it and sometimes work prevents me from putting in many hours at a time).

I read other posts stating that you should have at least 14 inches of clearance to install headers. I just measured the belly of my car and it is about 6 1/2 inches from the ground. Therefore if I bought 10in or 12in wheel cribs then I should have 16 1/2 to 18 1/2 inches of clearance, which should be more than enough clearance.

Does anyone see any issues using cribs for the job and for my situation?

 

Never used them but, while I like the idea, I puzzle over the how-to of jacking the car high enough to get a 10" high crib under the tire...
Plus, I would have to compare the cost of building some using 2x12's...

 

Good point. I never thought about how high I need to jack to get the cribs underneath. I have a set of race ramps so I was going to drive the front up the ramps, then jack up the back to set the cribs on. I thought of 2x12s too. I actually built my own ramps from 2x12s but the things were so heavy I ended up buying the race ramps purely for the ease of storage and moving around.

 

Have Headers on order and will install at home.

I bought and cut 6"x6"x2' for cribbage, total 8 pieces to be put under rear tires. That will be 11" under rear tires. The front will be on 18" jack stands in the puck positions. Will lift car from front and rear lifting points. Jack lifts 18" and with cross bar should be just the ticket. Cross bar is Two sandwiched 2"x 6" screwed together length wise.

luck

PS..... cribbage has cross bracing at front and rear of tires. Both sides , Willn't roll !!!

 

Not to be contrary, but decent quality jack stands are plenty safe.

 

In my case I have one set jack stands. And the 6x6 were of the free nature.
So seemed like the thing to do.

 

I used the race ramp 12" high wheel cribs for my install (front and rear). They were perfect. no messing with jack stands under the car to block your install ( in case you need to maneuver the header in which I did) my recommendation, get them , you will not be sorry. I'm a big guy and I had room to get in under the car and then some

 

oh also if you're worried about jacking the car high enough, using the harbor freight 3 ton low profile steel jack ($75 on their super coupon) will get the car up high enough (that's the one I have)

 

Race Ramps offers the wheel cribs in two versions, 1-piece and 2-piece. The 2-piece wheel cribs are more expensive, but, they can help if your floor jack does not have the range to lift the tires high enough to clear the wheel cribs.

With the 2-piece wheel cribs you could set the car on the first half, lower the floor jack, add a "spacer" on top of the floor jack, and then lift the car high enough to clear the full height of the wheel cribs.

If you want to put the car on four wheel cribs, you can do so with one set of 1-piece and one set of 2-piece wheel cribs using these steps.

1) Lift one end of car onto bottom half of wheel cribs.
2) Lift other end of car onto the top half of the wheel cribs. Car is now level.
3) Add spacer to floor jack and lift one end higher so you can swap the top half of the wheel cribs for the 1-piece wheel cribs.
4) Still using the spacer, lift the other end of the car and add the top half of the wheel cribs to the bottom half.

http://www.reverselogic.us/shop.html...air/p/20436003

 

The wood wheel cribs work great. In the picture below the cribs are stored to the left of the car. I've never used them on my C6 but my C3 spent most of last winter on them. I made mine from 2X4X12" and 2X4X16" pieces. I went with 4 courses lengthwise and 5 crosswise which gives me 16" lift from the bottom of the tire. Total cost was $40 in materials and a few hours to build them.

 

Nice. Glad to see someone has done this. I was thinking of doing this myself. I run into one problem and that is the front of my garage has a "lip" so I cannot get a jack into the front of the car ... safely. Will probably have to settle for ramps and get cribs for the rear.

 

I have 67 inch race ramps with extenders, i drive the front up on them, jack up the rear with low long jack that can lift up to 14 inches, put the 10 inch cribs under the tires and lower the car. No big deal. I also have a axle adapter for the jack but you can use a 2 by 4 to distribute the load under rear brace.

 

Pieces of wood under a jack can make almost any jack get the car up as high as needed to put the cribs under...even if the jacking has to be done in stages.