Is it only me or?

[Lizzie_Zoom]

You've got Jack-o-phobia. It makes you think you're off your trolley.  (Well I thought it was funny  )

Have you noticed men in white coats following you around?

Ignore them SMD

They just think you are a wimp!

Us ladies can get away with such emotions!! You cannot!!:D

I think TB was aiming that at me Lizzie, reference my unfunny comment.   

Ah, right.  I took it to mean something different .

We all require men with white coats I think; in my case ones that look like Daniel Craig

[TheBoy]

Ah, right.  I took it to mean something different .

Bloody women - can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em 

 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Ah, right.  I took it to mean something different .

Bloody women - can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em 

 

Oh dear, that's not nice!

[05omegav6]

Ah, right.  I took it to mean something different .

Bloody women - can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em 

 

Well you could, but someone might see fit to write in to the Guardian about it

[Sir Tigger KC]

When I was about 18 I borrowed my Dad's Mk4 Cortina estate and during the 'loan' period I had a puncture.    So I jacked it up using the cars jack, but while I was changing the wheel the car settled back down to earth and the jack disappeared up into the mass of rust and filler that masqueraded as the sill....      

Luckily some blokes helped me out and I was soon on my way home, wondering how I could explain to my Dad the holy mess that was his sill!    Predictably he initially went ballistic, until he saw the extent of the rot!! 

To this day I'm very cautious about jacking on bodywork even if it is a proper jacking point....   

[omega3000]

When I was about 18 I borrowed my Dad's Mk4 Cortina estate and during the 'loan' period I had a puncture.    So I jacked it up using the cars jack, but while I was changing the wheel the car settled back down to earth and the jack disappeared up into the mass of rust and filler that masqueraded as the sill....      

Luckily some blokes helped me out and I was soon on my way home, wondering how I could explain to my Dad the holy mess that was his sill!    Predictably he initially went ballistic, until he saw the extent of the rot!! 

To this day I'm very cautious about jacking on bodywork even if it is a proper jacking point....   

Not surprised buy those words for the cortina  No wonder your a little cautious , in those days for me removing rust and adding filler was a weekly task 
I still haven't built up enough courage to drive up the ramps with the omega , thinking ill shoot right over the endge of them 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

When I was about 18 I borrowed my Dad's Mk4 Cortina estate and during the 'loan' period I had a puncture.    So I jacked it up using the cars jack, but while I was changing the wheel the car settled back down to earth and the jack disappeared up into the mass of rust and filler that masqueraded as the sill....      

Luckily some blokes helped me out and I was soon on my way home, wondering how I could explain to my Dad the holy mess that was his sill!    Predictably he initially went ballistic, until he saw the extent of the rot!! 

To this day I'm very cautious about jacking on bodywork even if it is a proper jacking point....   

Not surprised buy those words for the cortina  No wonder your a little cautious , in those days for me removing rust and adding filler was a weekly task 
I still haven't built up enough courage to drive up the ramps with the omega , thinking ill shoot right over the endge of them 

All that reminds me of my first car, a 1960 Austin Farina bodied A40, that I bought for £15 in 1970.

I wanted to jack the car up, so, as you do, I put the car's own jack into a jacking point. I wound it up only to find that the bodywork went up, but the chassis stayed on the floor.  Where metal should be there was just rust, if that, with the rest being old copies of the Daily Mirror mixed up with filler!  

My naivety stopped there, with an uncle training me in car mechanics, with night school as well, so I wouldn't be done again!

From then on I used a bottle jack, as she passed the MOT twice before I obtained my first company car in 1972.  The A40 then went to the scrap yard, with me previously selling the registration for £15.

[andyc]

Jacking cars up has never worried me but jacking up 40 footers can be fun. In my early days i worked at a Volvo HGV workshop and we looked after a fleet of reefers'.

A number of times we would have a tractor unit, normaly an F10/F12 over the pit with a tri axle 'reefer on the back and we would have the whole rig up on pit jacks.

We would have two guys on the trailer, one each side, two guys on the tractor unit, one up top and one down below and one guy on the 'reefer engine, complete service in two hours flat.

The other thing that used to get me was jacking up the lorry cabs. Done this once on the old ERF shunter we had but someone had take the pin out of the top of the jack ram, cab got to the tipping point and carried on into the tarmac . Had a TV crash through the windscreen as well.

Andy

[omega3000]

I had a capri fall off one axle stand about 5 minutes before i was to go underneath it  that put me off a bit but still went underneath to take the gearbox out , then the gearbox fell and trapped my fingers   

[Jukeboxnut]

Years ago I had a 1950 MG Y Type which had a Jackall built in hydraulic jacking system which still worked.  All you had to do was select either front, rear or all jacks and then operate a small pump under the bonnet and the car would lift about six inches off the road, pity cars do not have this system now.  I think Ford Pilots of the same era had them as well.

[Zippy2012]

Only thing i really hate about jacking up any car to get 2 stands say under the front (1 each side) is you can always jack 1 side up fine put the axle stand under it no prob but if using a trolly jack as it lifts wheel just off floor as jack lifts car towards you the axle stand under the car on opposite side is now on 2 legs not all 3!!! pulling stand over, so to eliminate this prob i use a trolly jack on 1 side & a bottle vertical jack on other then put both axle stands under at same time.. 

but before i can even get jack out i have to drive it up onto 2 sloped 3"x8"x12" pieces of wood to get jack under it!!! 

i calnt get my car on even my small 8" ramps without 2 pieces of 18" wood to make the ramp shallower because my bumper scrapes!! 

be even worse when ive fitted the steinmetz side skirts & front lip spoiler!!! 

[Entwood]

Only thing i really hate about jacking up any car to get 2 stands say under the front (1 each side) is you can always jack 1 side up fine put the axle stand under it no prob but if using a trolly jack as it lifts wheel just off floor as jack lifts car towards you the axle stand under the car on opposite side is now on 2 legs not all 3!!! pulling stand over, so to eliminate this prob i use a trolly jack on 1 side & a bottle vertical jack on other then put both axle stands under at same time.. 

but before i can even get jack out i have to drive it up onto 2 sloped 3"x8"x12" pieces of wood to get jack under it!!! 

i calnt get my car on even my small 8" ramps without 2 pieces of 18" wood to make the ramp shallower because my bumper scrapes!! 

be even worse when ive fitted the steinmetz side skirts & front lip spoiler!!! 

Not if you "point" one of the legs "down" the car, and have the other two in line "across" the car... the axle stand cannot now "tip". Other way is two legs "down" the car and the third leg pointing "inwards".   It can only "tip" if two legs are in line "down" the car and the "odd" leg is pointing outwards ..

If that makes any sense ... it pivots about the 2 legs .. you need the third leg pointing in a direction that prevents this ...

Far easier to show/do than to try and explain ..

[Andy B]

Only thing i really hate about jacking up any car to get 2 stands say under the front (1 each side) is you can always jack 1 side up fine put the axle stand under it no prob but if using a trolly jack as it lifts wheel just off floor as jack lifts car towards you the axle stand under the car on opposite side is now on 2 legs not all 3!!! pulling stand over, so to eliminate this prob i use a trolly jack on 1 side & a bottle vertical jack on other then put both axle stands under at same time.. 

but before i can even get jack out i have to drive it up onto 2 sloped 3"x8"x12" pieces of wood to get jack under it!!! 

i calnt get my car on even my small 8" ramps without 2 pieces of 18" wood to make the ramp shallower because my bumper scrapes!! 

be even worse when ive fitted the steinmetz side skirts & front lip spoiler!!! 

Not if you "point" one of the legs "down" the car, and have the other two in line "across" the car... the axle stand cannot now "tip". Other way is two legs "down" the car and the third leg pointing "inwards".   It can only "tip" if two legs are in line "down" the car and the "odd" leg is pointing outwards ..

If that makes any sense ... it pivots about the 2 legs .. you need the third leg pointing in a direction that prevents this ...

Far easier to show/do than to try and explain ..

What if your stands have four legs/feet? 

[Entwood]

Only thing i really hate about jacking up any car to get 2 stands say under the front (1 each side) is you can always jack 1 side up fine put the axle stand under it no prob but if using a trolly jack as it lifts wheel just off floor as jack lifts car towards you the axle stand under the car on opposite side is now on 2 legs not all 3!!! pulling stand over, so to eliminate this prob i use a trolly jack on 1 side & a bottle vertical jack on other then put both axle stands under at same time.. 

but before i can even get jack out i have to drive it up onto 2 sloped 3"x8"x12" pieces of wood to get jack under it!!! 

i calnt get my car on even my small 8" ramps without 2 pieces of 18" wood to make the ramp shallower because my bumper scrapes!! 

be even worse when ive fitted the steinmetz side skirts & front lip spoiler!!! 

Not if you "point" one of the legs "down" the car, and have the other two in line "across" the car... the axle stand cannot now "tip". Other way is two legs "down" the car and the third leg pointing "inwards".   It can only "tip" if two legs are in line "down" the car and the "odd" leg is pointing outwards ..

If that makes any sense ... it pivots about the 2 legs .. you need the third leg pointing in a direction that prevents this ...

Far easier to show/do than to try and explain ..

What if your stands have four legs/feet? 

point one foot across the car ... DOH !!!      

anyway .. the post I was answering referred to stands with 2 + 1 = 3 feet .. 

[omega3000]

When jacking the car up , are you supposed to have the handbrake off wheels chocked and gearbox in nuetral
Seems some say yes and some no .