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I have two Craftsman racing jacks and they work great with my permanently attached pucks from Paragon. Sorry, don't have model number, but they have been making them for years. they look exactly like these Schwaben units:
At the track racers have had more than a few issues with the Pittsburgh aluminum jacks. They tend to treat them as disposable. Most have switched to Daytona.
The Daytona steel and aluminum jacks have been quite reliable.
At the track racers have had more than a few issues with the Pittsburgh aluminum jacks. They tend to treat them as disposable. Most have switched to Daytona.
The Daytona steel and aluminum jacks have been quite reliable.
Never have had any problems over the years using any Pittsburgh jacks and have proven to be quite reliable...And the one have is made of steel. .
My son gifted me this exact low profile jack (1.5 Ton Capacity) because I do not have a low profile one. This one's still in the box new and I also have a 3 Ton Craftsman (not a low profile).
My son gifted me this exact low profile jack (1.5 Ton Capacity) because I do not have a low profile one. This one's still in the box new and I also have a 3 Ton Craftsman (not a low profile).
Is a 1.5 Ton enough for a C8?
1.5 tons = 3,000 lbs
You'll never have that much weight on a single jack when using it under a Corvette. For most work on the car, I'm using 2 jacks and then of course jackstands if I'm going underneath it. They lift plenty high enough for oil changes, DCT filter/fluid changes, swaybar swaps, brake jobs, tire rotations, etc. These ones do not go high enough for anything Jeep-related though.
I've had 3 of these jacks throughout the years (~15?); the first one eventually wore out on me and would no longer lift a car. I use mine a fair amount though, quite a bit more often than average.
On the subject of safety around jacks and jack stands, I always used my homemade safety carts to protect me if anything failed. Here under my old Cobra you can see a stack of pressure-treated 6x6 timbers nailed together and riding on a pair of wheel dollies. Any time that I got the car up in the air, I would have one on either side of me so that if the car fell, I wouldn’t get crushed.
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