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You ain't kidding about it being too hot to work on them. I'm pretty good with the heat but I was feeling it today even being in the garage.
BTW a heads up for everyone I have one of those 1.5 ton aluminum harbor freight quick pump 75 dollar floor jacks. When I raise the back of the car I usually go under it right in front of the rear wheel and in front of the sidepipe exit and put the jack at about a 45 degree angle (not perpendicular to the side of the car but angled forward) to get the lift point as far forward as possible so I can get max lift at the rear frame near the rear wheels where I stick the jack stands. Well when you do that - jacking up the right rear like I was - the car gets kind of tippy between the right front and left rear as you get the right rear wheel up off the ground (car has it's right rear on the jack and the left front wheel on the ground so it is kind of pivoting around an axis between the left front tire patch and the jack point). Well bottom line is that aluminum jack frame is not real strong in torsion and doesn't like that jack point twisting at all - at one point just before I stuck the jack stands under the frame tube I could see that jack frame completely twisted out of shape. Scary. It did not completely return to proper shape when I lowered it either. So - use caution and of course never ever rely on one of these things as anything other than a lifting device.
Last edited by Phx Mike; 08-12-2017 at 07:49 PM..
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