MrKlean187

Sounds like its time to pop the question and then breaking bad!

AZS2KDancer

She knows that I have a mistress (the S) and that I look at porn (S2ki). And she helps to support my habit. Yes, she's a keeper.

Vitt

I bought some similar to these at Harbor Freight but don't use them. I had not realized how deep that V was until I took them out of the box weeks after the sale. They wouldn't take them back. Thinking about buying the same Torin linked above as well.

B serious

Lol what's the obsession everyone has with aluminum jackstands? I bought some steel 2 ton stands at a parts store (pep boys?) when dinosaurs roamed the earth (about 13 years ago), as part of a requirement for a highschool auto-shop class. They still work. They're still safe. They were like $20-25.

I have 3 pairs. In winter, I use 2 pairs to hold the car up for storage. The other pair is used in case I need to do an oil change or other work on other cars.

They have a V-grooved seat that has never damaged any of the 8000000 hondas and other cars that have been on them. 1 pair is double locking. The other two are not.

They have not done any damage to the garage's epoxy floor....which was epoxy coated (by me) 10 years ago.

My total expenditure was like $80 with tax or something for all 3 pairs.

I have never died from a car falling on me through, numerous trans swaps, clutches, engine swaps, suspension installs, and countless other types of repairs over the past 13 years. I am so confident that I even got a tombstone made that says "BRB".

Those flat seat, table top style aluminum stands seem precarious. And the bases make me nervous. Why would you pay $70 for anodized aluminum jack stands? The bases look like they're just cast "aircraft quality" aluminum.

My garage weighs a little bit more because of the steel construction of my jackstands. So I won't win any garage races until I get more power in the house's foundation.

cosmomiller

I am confident you would not be posting if you had died from a car falling on you.



I also have steel jack stands (not the dangerous older 'welded flat steel' version) from the early formation of the solar system. Yes they work well but I also have the aluminum Torins and like them alot. They are perfect for the S. Not so for my bigger cars but I am under the S more than them. I use them in conjuctiono with the others when using 4 or just them when 2 are needed. Quick and sturdy, not precarious on a flat floor using all the other sensible precautions.

B serious

You've clearly not watched the hit series "Ghost Writer".

JWN6264

I built some wheel cribs for when I'm working under the car. Cost me nothing since I used some old scrap wood I had been saving. I'll add my steel jackstands as secondary. I can get the car up high enough to use a crawler underneath. Makes fluid changes a breeze.

B serious

I gotta find some ramps to drive up on to. I now have a 1 car garage...which is non conducive to the 25 step process to jacking up (with only one jack...which sucks) and jack standing a S2000.

Ramps would make it easier to get to the front center jack point with only 1 jack.

Or for oil changes, I could drive up on there, pull the plug, jack up the rear to drain all the oil out. And then put the back wheels back down before going back and putting the plug back in.

Also...changing the bump damping on the front set of shocks would be way easy.

HRMMMM

V6 Donut

windhund116

This is what I use to change the oil on my wife's Lexus IS250. Be sure to get a couple good quality wheel chocks, too.


http://www.amazon.com/RhinoGear-1191...Q48HQT1941SE5X