[BMWCSRegistry] Re: BMWCSRegistry Digest, Vol 34, Issue 15

[David Baker]

Spare tire under a wheel works as a make shift jack stand if you need to do a repair on the road.  
   
  Also straddling a ditch can help get access to the greasy side.
   
  Take much care to stay out of traffic.
   
   
   
   
   
  

David Dart <davidd at nevicdgp.org.au> wrote:
  Two failures at once - who'd believe it.

My simple rule to prevent this when I'm under my car. Once the jack
stands are in place I always (if I can) leave the wheels on the raised
car and under the raised wheels I place another old wheel on the flat.
If it all fails the car will land on another wheel which allows for an
additional 8 inches or thereabouts of space under the car. 

If I have to take the wheels off for some reason - I rarely get under
the car. Has worked for over 30 years so far! 

DD

What's FLAPS?

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schiemer [mailto:schiemer at alltel.net] 
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:16 AM
To: bmwcsregistry at idb.ded.forest.net
Subject: [BMWCSRegistry] Re: BMWCSRegistry Digest, Vol 34, Issue 15

A neighbor where I used to live was suffocated beneath his car when the
crappy (cheap) jackstands failed, shortly after the hydraulic valve in
his floor jack failed.
He'd been there a few hours before family members found him.

The jackstands were the $9.95 type from one of the FLAPS. (y'all know
what FLAPS are, right?) You can recognize these cheap jackstands by the
steel stamping process, the fold over bend in the shank, and the thin
gauge steel.

Never use cement blocks either.
A mechanic is measured by the way he keeps his tools you know.


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