Maybe I am the only one here that hates jacking the front of the car under the crossmember. The shape of the crossmember and the fact that there is usually oil on it makes me nervous of the car slipping of of the jack crushing the oilpan. On my car at least the Y pipe is just a little lower than the crossmember and I always wind up with the jack pad just barely hooking the crossmember. Plus add to this that my shop floor is not real smooth and the car has to roll forward with the jack. There is a hole in the crossmember that is about a 1/2 inch in diameter so I turned a deal on my lathe that just slips into the jack where the pad slips in. On the other end I just made a 1/2 inch diameter stud that fits in the hole on the crossmember. I am about 260 lbs so I have to jack the car up to do anything under it, and this will hopefully save me some time and give me some piece of mind that the car will not slip off.

 

i know its off topic but how is your t-5 holding up to the 350s torque

Is the t-5 built

I have to rebuild mine any suggestions

Good jacking tip I usually jack up my front end on the oil pan

Just kidding im not that big of a Dumba##

 

that's pretty cool. I like to roll my car around on the jack, sometimes it slips.....

 

send me one. Mine has fallen off before and smashed the radiator.

 

Yea i hate jacking it by the cross member to, Started to slide on concrete with wet tires

Hurried with the jackstands under the A arms and it stoped

I really like what uve made there, makes me want one Or make one on my own

We should market them togeather JK u can for ur self

 

pretty sweet dude.

 

Sweet!! What did you use for stock? Aluminum? Cant really tell from the pic....

 

Thats a really cool Idea.
I need one also.
Kory

 

That's a nice looking part!! Good work.

I am kinda surprised to hear of anyone having trouble jacking on the crossmember though. I have been jacking my car there for years with a 3 ton floor jack. Never had it slip even a little!! I guess I am lucky...

 

you must be blessed brother

 

i've never had a problem jacking it up either.. and if your working under your car you should use jack stands, don't ever trust your jack.. :nono:

 

It hasn't slipped, yet.

But any how, thanks for the compliments and I must say that in the last couple weeks I have used it several times and it is alot more comforting with it on there.

Oh yeah, it is just made out of a piece of 1 15/16" steel shaft.

 

It isn't an issue of it falling and squishing somebody, it's about not having it fall of the jack pad when jacking the car up and crushing the oil pan.

I haven't survived the last 10 years of logging and now millwrighting in a sawmill by putting my big *** somewhere that it doesn't belong.

 

I had mine slip off & bend the center link into the oil pan. I was able to hammer the oil pan back in shape but the center link was FUBAR.

 

Nice to see ya Kory, been awhile.
Scoty

 

Well, i dont believe that 1/2 inch thing will work for a long time !! All the weight of the front of the car stand on that little thing ??? The surface of the crossmember on what that thing stand, will crush sooner or later !!!

I use a regular 3 tons jack since almost 10 years on my Camaro and i never had any slipping problems. If you do it carefully you not suppose to have problems, and dont forget to use jack stands.

 

Really cool idea- good design and workmanship!

Edit- Taking a second look, I would try to chamfer the nose (the part that actually goes into the X-member) quite a bit more, to make it easier to get lined up....

Not to take away from a good idea, though.
I have had the same thoughts as you when jacking the car up on a regular jack. Is it going to shift? Is it smashing the #$&* out of my y-pipe or oil pan? and so on...

S-D

 

my stock y pipe make it difficult to jack on my x-member also. I use my SFCs. I went through some old paper work and foun that the precious owner paid pver $1400 to replace the enitre exhaust system, and it was all stock!! The factory dual cats were over $800 alone

 

Gald to hear that cuz now Im not the only one who had that problem. Only bad thing about mine was I tried to bang it out as much as I could. and my 3.75stroke crank hit the oil pan Had to pull it.


rjmcgee,

Verry nice piece. would you consider selling one? Drop me a e-mail from the link in my sig.

I have abuddy with a lathe but getting him to clean it off to use woul dbe like taking cank from a babby.

 

I really doubt that there is a strength problem here.

 

I think its more an understanding problem then a strength problem. The little tit sticking out doesnt lift the car at all, just locates the jack under the crossmember. Just slip that point into the small hole center of the crossmember so the jack can't slip out. There really shouldn't be much side force. All of the lifting force is then applied to the larger diameter below the tit. Which is actually alot more surface area then most floor jacks have on the crossmember. I know my floor jack only hits on a couple of the points when lifting my car. Maybe 2 small pressure points total. The floor jack really doesnt fit the crossmember well at all, and i'm always afraid it'll slip.

 

what kind of wheels are those on that car? lol i know its totaly off the subject...