Can most of us remember when we use to say that about Japanese stuff in the
late sixties and early seventies?
-Ed-
--- On Tue, 4/6/10, RACER BUD <budscars@comcast.net> wrote:
From: RACER BUD <budscars@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Fot] jack stands
To: "Justin Wagner" <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 8:30 PM
We always should leave a floor jack up in case of a problem..That's common
safety stuff for Car Guys.... Chinese products have a Bad Track Record!...RB
----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Wagner" <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
To: "RACER BUD" <budscars@comcast.net>
Cc: "Rob" <19to1tr6@comcast.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] jack stands
> I'd trust those stands over a hell of a lot of the other stands and
odd-non-stand-objects I have used over the years to secure a car.
> Besides, I've always made it a habit of putting other items under the car to
support it if a stand failed... i.e. a floor jack (jacked up just shy of the
frame)... big ol' tires and rims from a 4x4... etc. etc.
>
> And I've always made a habit of giving a car on stands a good little
hand-made california tremor... as a test... before I put my body under it.
>
> In all these years, the only jack-stand screw up I've ever had... was... at
16... lowering my just-garage-painted-and-restored TR4A all the way to the
ground just as I noticed that when I had pulled out the jackstands, I had
accidentally left one perfectly centered and directly under the front
valance.
>
> I never repaired that valance. One really couldn't see the crumple zone
behind the front license place. (I wonder if whoever owns that car now ever
fixed it?)
>
> On my current TR4A, that I bought in the 90's, the front valance was damaged
and I replaced it with a TR250 valance so that I would get similar extra
cooling from the vent that the earlier car's crumple zone provided. : )
>
>
> --Justin
>
>
>
> RACER BUD wrote:
>
>> find out if they are made in China..no sarcasm intended here...I just don't
want to get under a car that is supported by a product made in a country that
we know sends us bad stuff(lead in toys, etc)....Racer Bud..Spitfire #21
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob" <19to1tr6@comcast.net>
>> To: <fot@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:49 PM
>> Subject: [Fot] jack stands
>>
>>
>>> I am wondering what members think about Harbor freights Aluminum Jack
stands
>>> They weigh 3lbs and will support 1.5 ton. I like the idea of hauling less
>>> weight to the track the van is usually over wght. as it is Anyone using
these
>>> stands ? thanks rob
>>>
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