Maybe somebody should come up with a deeply cupped ramp -- like the wheel
dollies, but standing higher and no casters. That would be about as safe as
you could reasonably ask for.
I would buy a set even without the ramp portion just to use in place of jack
stands. Just jack the car up and lower it onto the stands.
Jack stands always make me just a bit nervous.
LD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Jack stands or ramps? Surprise me.
I noticed that with the AL low jacks that the single roller doesn't
roll as nicely as the older style casters did. The floor has to be very
clean.
Be careful.
Peter C
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At 07:52 AM 12/21/2006, Steven Michelsen wrote:
>Sounds like the wheels on the car roll easier than the wheels on the jack.
>This is the sort of thing that only becomes evident after one
>experiences it, or hears about it. Thanks for saving the rest of us
>the experience.
>
>It might have been worse if the car had ALMOST rolled off the ramps
>when you placed the stands in the back.
>
>Steve
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Daniels"
><ladaniels@sbcglobal.net>
>To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:06 PM
>Subject: Re: Jack stands or ramps? Surprise me.
>
>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Jones"
>><adrianjones747@earthlink.net>
>>To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 6:27 PM
>>Subject: Jack stands or ramps? Surprise me.
>>
>>OK, I need to relay my recent experience with jacks and ramps.
>>
>>I jacked up the front end of my wife's MGB and placed my ramps underneath
>>the front wheels. I then lowered the front wheels onto the ramps and
>>assumed all was well.
>>
>>I went to the rear end and put the HF ultralight AL jack under the diff
>>and
>>jacked it up. As I got the rear axle nearly as high as I wanted it to
>>place
>>jack stands underneath the axles, the whole damn car rolled off the rear
>>of
>>the ramps and down onto the garage floor. Scared the crap out of me as I
>>assumed the front end was set fine.
>>
>>I did the whole process over again, except, after each two pumps of the
>>jack
>>under the rear end, I went back up front and rolled the front wheels
>>forward
>>onto the ramps again. It is real easy to roll it forward by grabbing the
>>wheel and rolling it. Lots of leverage there. I have no idea why the jack
>>would not roll forward rather than the front wheels roll forward on the
>>ramp, but, that is what happened to me.
>>
>>Once the front was on the ramps securely and the back axle was also on the
>>stands securely, all stood well.
>>
>>The moral is: don't trust the car to stay on the ramps as the other end
>>gets
>>jacked up. It can, and will, roll off the ramps.
>>
>>Be careful out there,
>>
>>LD
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