John, I have always been told you must have a driver in the car when the
motor is running, jackstands or not. Thats the way I have always done it anyway.
Doug Odom in big ditch
John Goodman wrote:
> "Part of the pre-run procedure should be to jack the
> car up and run the gears thus warming the trans and
> diff, manual or auto? - don't matter."
>
> Dan, I certainly understand the need to do this but I
> have never quite understood why it is allowed. To a
> newcomer like myself, the practice of jacking the car,
> putting it in gear and buzzing the engine seemed very
> unsafe to me. I could only imagine what would happen
> if the car came off the jack! And this advise coming
> from a guy who caught me trying to sneak an SFI-5
> drivers suit into a car requiring SFI-15 (LOL).
>
> John Goodman
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