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I didn't really know how to phrase a general question but here's what I'm after:
Say you're doing suspension work on your car and you have to leave it over night, how do you leave it?
Do you leave it on jackstands? Blocks? Finish the job so it can rest on its own suspension?
I can't seem to get comfortable with knowing my car would be up on jackstands for an extended period of time. Just paranoid of it falling off or tipping and doing some major damage... |
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| Insomniac |
| If your afraid of your car falling off the jackstands in an empty garage then you should consider how dangerous it is to actually be working on a car on stands:rolleyes: |
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| TrevorK |
| I always use 2 support methods (Block and stands, blocks and jack, jack and stands) when leaving for extending periods. |
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| ChromeDragon |
| Just set it right on the ground Terry, stands are for fools.......fools and liberals.:eek: :lol: :bthumbup: :beer: |
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| REFLUX |
quote:
Originally posted by Insomniac
If your afraid of your car falling off the jackstands in an empty garage then you should consider how dangerous it is to actually be working on a car on stands:rolleyes:
good point :lol: |
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| Park |
| Most of the time If I have all four wheels on the truck I'll have it up on two sets of ramps. I drive up onto one set then jack the back end up on to another, I trust them much more then stands. If I have to use stands I also use another means of support, jack, blocks plus the wheels that are on the ground are chaulked so the vehical can't roll at all! |
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| JeffZ28 |
I've had my salvage on stands for like 2 or 3 weeks, and its rock solid, cant rock it all, jsut put the stands all the way down.
I got a stand at each corner. well on the inside between the wheels. if you know what I mean, right behind the fronts, and jsut infront of hte rears. |
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| cua0 |
a suspension should take maybe 2 - 3 hours tops.. why wouldn't you just finish it?
i've never left a project unfinished for the night. |
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| SplineZ |
Never put cinderblocks under your car, thats a bad scene... only under your tires to keep them from moving..
Jackstands will support your vehicle indefinatly.. i would not worry about it!
cua0, i guess not eveyone is as proficient as you at suspension work :P
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| JeffZ28 |
quote:
Originally posted by SplineZ
Never put cinderblocks under your car, thats a bad scene... only under your tires to keep them from moving..
good tip.
never suport your car with cinder blocks, use them as wheel chaulks but not to support your car. |
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| stealth |
quote:
Originally posted by cua0
a suspension should take maybe 2 - 3 hours tops.. why wouldn't you just finish it?
i've never left a project unfinished for the night.
wanna do mine? honestly lol. |
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| Mekanik22 |
When I couldn't get a new axle right away and everything was apart, I put blocks under my back wheels and had my front end up on jackstands...
If you have the jackstands in the proper place, you have nothing to worry about. I felt alot safer though when I put the blocks under my back wheels because I knew my car couldn't roll off the stands...
I also can't leave the area messy. I clean up my tools and put them off to the side and I make sure any parts aren't in screwed up positions. For example I never leave my calipers dangling, I put them up on the control arm because it stretches the hell out of the lines when you do that. I also make sure any holes are plugged. Like when I pull the axle out of the tranny, I plug the tranny hole with a clean rag so no crap gets in there. Just little stuff like that. |
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