"Jim Wilkins" on Sat, 21 Mar 2015 07:39:51
-0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
"pyotr filipivich" wrote:
Gunner Asch on Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:25:57 -0700
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:34:17 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote:
"Bob Engelhardt" wrote:
On 3/20/2015 7:27 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
Has anyone seen short jackstands with a screw adjustment for height
that are rated for cars versus campers? When I put it on four
jackstands to pull the tires and repeatedly bleed the brakes only
three made contact.
...
"Point of order": this is RCM, your question should be about making
such, or modifying an existing one G. Seriously - you only need
one finely adjustable stand. And it just needs to keep the car
steady - the other 3 can carry the load. So, put an upright bolt
into the top of one of your stands & you're done. Bob

I could, and did think about it, or I could support the lighter rear
with a single centered floor jack. But I'm not going to remove the
tires and crawl underneath with such support.

I Never...ever...work under a vehicle supported by only a floor jack.
Not in this lifetime, nor in the next.

Is this because of something you did in a past lifetime? B-)

I had two buses (interurban types, not VW) fall off the jacks
while I was under them. On the second one, I heard the "creak" and
rolled out from under it, as the stand on the far side compressed
the
cobble stone enough to get past CG. "Fall down, bounce on shocks."
Missed me, I was 21 and nie invulnerable.

I can become too distracted by diagnosing the problem or having to
communicate intelligibly with a helper to remember to double-check
that the emergency brakes are on and the opposite corner wheel chocked
on both sides. It's easy to forget that Park doesn't restrain the
vehicle when one drive wheel lifts off the ground.

I must not be that "good" - I seem to start with "handbrakes,
chocks, jack stands ... now what is the problem?"

I've never needed to remove all four tires at once until I had to
bleed the entire brake system.

Hmm, I don't recall ... oh wait (it has been a few years) - the
reason I don't recall any difficulty with that, was I only did that at
The Shop, and we had a hoist. Which had its own set of hazard
issues.
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pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."