Location: Middleburg Heights, OH
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Which looks roughly like this, in case anyone's wondering:
[from DCO's site]
Location: Taylors SC
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To get a floor jack under the front of a lowered car, one or two boards like that would be plenty.
Dave S
DMC Midwest - retired but helping
Greenville SC
Location: Middleburg Heights, OH
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Alternatively, you can use a ramp of that design and only drive it up one or two levels. That still gives you the option of using those same ramps if you want to forgo the jack entirely, while still being able to provide a low enough raise to allow jack clearance and usable jack height.
One thing to keep in mind: if you need the ramps to get the jack to fit, do NOT remove the ramps during service! What goes in must come out, and if the jack didn't fit going under, it's not going to fit coming out. Use the ramps both ways if you need them at all.
I do - a mate of mine made these for me last year due to both of us being concerned I was using wood (which was splitting). They slide on top of the jack stand and have a layer of rubber on top - I love them so much I've been meaning to ask him to do me one for my jack as well (I still use a piece of wood for that).
Chris
Location: Atlanta OTP GA
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That's what I'm talking about!
Nice and wide to spread the load. Pity your mate wasn't stateside. But something like that should be fairly easy to make up. Thanks for the info.
Dermot
VIN 2743, B/A, Frame 2227, engine 2320
I don't always drive cars, but when I do, I prefer DeLoreans
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No-one is to stone anyone, even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say "carburetor"
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They aren't cheap, but the Lotus boys are Sector111 have the same problem with flatness .. so they have "flat jacks"
http://www.sector111.com/newest_stuf...jacks-pair.cfm
flatJACKSmed.jpg
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mmm, very nice!
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