Homemade Wood Jack Stands

This is a great and inexpensive way to get more room under your vehicle.

Homemade wood jack stands.

This is because the tires will sit on the wheel cribs whereas the jack stands sit on the concrete and are placed under the axle frame or some other support. A set of ramps supports the front wheels. In this post we are going to make wheel cribs that are 10 inches wide 14 inches long and 12 inches high. Wheel cribs are super easy to make and the process doesn t take a lot of time.

They can be especially useful when tightening suspension pieces. 0 post a comment login register. I made a set of jack stands to support the rear of the car at just the right he. So i tried using my rolling wheel cribs under the stands.

I ve done it with all 4 wheels on a car or using 3 when there s very little weight on the front like the pic below. Extra tall jack stands fabricated from wood and useful for automotive purposes in the shop. Homemade tall wooden jack stands. I can pull the other car out center the project car in the garage to work on it and then return things to normal with both cars back in the garage when i m done working for the day.

This homemade jack stand goes together quickly two hours maximum and easily only ten welds and is about as sturdy as they come. Generally speaking suspension bolts nuts should be tightened when the suspension is in the normal resting position. Tall wooden jack stands. Automotive jack stands when used under a car won t slide apart because the bottom of the car is flat.

Close to zero if you do your own welding. Subscribe to restocar. If you use jack stands to lift your boat from its trailer to do bottom work such as painting or fiberglass repairs you can use automotive jack stands with one important difference. My car requires a maintenance procedure that makes it necessary to raise the car off of the floor but also to keep it level.

If using jack stands with wood blocks consider the wood blocks as backups only and make sure the car is level balanced and secure.