Fiberglass Bodywork

[DaveW]

Mike,
Got any pics of your quick jacks and mountings ?

Dave

[Aussie Mike]

Originally Posted by DaveW

Mike,
Got any pics of your quick jacks and mountings ?

Dave

Hi Dave,

The quick jacks are home made. A friend has an engineering firm that does work for a water jet cutting company. He got some profiles cut from 6mm aluminium plate. I welded them together with my MIG when I was experimenting with getting it working on aluminium.



For the mounting instead of using all-thread and tube like most seem to, I machined up some standoffs in the right length from 3/4" aluminum rod. I drilled and tapped the ends with 10mm threads and used some big stainless button head cap screws on the outside to bolt the quick jack to the stand off.

On the chassis I just ran a regular 10mm bolt throuhg the bracket. I made a change to the chassis mounting holes. They were just a hole through the box section but I was concerned about not having a crush tube in there. I drilled out one side of the box section and welded a steel bushing in there. In theory I reckon you could lift the car with these quick jacks.

I'll try and dig them out and take some pictures. Or post pics when I do the fiberglass repairs as I will have to refit them to get the holes right.

Cheers