Pyrenees
SILVER Star
I apologize if this has been beaten to death already, but I'm in the process of evaluating what jacking tools I use and wanted to give anyone here a heads-up on this.
I went to HF today and bought a pair of their 6-ton (Pittsburgh) jack stands since I'm about to do the brakes and all I have is a pair of 3-ton stands. $37/pair after a coupon, what's not to like, right? I opened the box up in the parking lot just to check them out before the drive home. They were downright dangerous. I went inside and showed the folks and returned the stands 5 mins after I bought them.
I have no idea what the terminology is for these parts, but the lever-operated catch on the base part didn't fit all the way into the triangular notches on the adjustable insert part. Just the tip of the catch rested on the edge of the notch instead of nestling into it. This means the pressures exerted on the tips of the catch and the notch would have been enormous and unsafe. On top of that, one of the adjustable inserts had a very poorly-machined triangular notch (half of it was completely filled in and unusable) and one of them had a poorly-machined top cup (that would rest on the truck's frame rail). There was just a random huge chunk missing.
I'm planning on purchasing something like the LCP bottle jack frame rail adapter for on-the-road jacking, and I've already got a beefy floor jack from harbor freight for the lifting at home. I've bought a bunch of OK things from HF before that I love, but this was appalling.
What jack stands do you all like for your 100-series? I just need something that isn't going to drop my truck on my head.
I went to HF today and bought a pair of their 6-ton (Pittsburgh) jack stands since I'm about to do the brakes and all I have is a pair of 3-ton stands. $37/pair after a coupon, what's not to like, right? I opened the box up in the parking lot just to check them out before the drive home. They were downright dangerous. I went inside and showed the folks and returned the stands 5 mins after I bought them.
I have no idea what the terminology is for these parts, but the lever-operated catch on the base part didn't fit all the way into the triangular notches on the adjustable insert part. Just the tip of the catch rested on the edge of the notch instead of nestling into it. This means the pressures exerted on the tips of the catch and the notch would have been enormous and unsafe. On top of that, one of the adjustable inserts had a very poorly-machined triangular notch (half of it was completely filled in and unusable) and one of them had a poorly-machined top cup (that would rest on the truck's frame rail). There was just a random huge chunk missing.
I'm planning on purchasing something like the LCP bottle jack frame rail adapter for on-the-road jacking, and I've already got a beefy floor jack from harbor freight for the lifting at home. I've bought a bunch of OK things from HF before that I love, but this was appalling.
What jack stands do you all like for your 100-series? I just need something that isn't going to drop my truck on my head.
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