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Originally Posted by obscene
Normally I put the jack stands under the front A-arms.
But where is a safe place to put them when you're planning on removing the A-arms? I get nervous thinking about bending a pinch weld..
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Not a silly question at all, and your timing is nothing short of perfect... I'm looking at doing my front end and want to get it in the air as high as possible.
A mental exercise in the middle of the night while trying to get to sleep gave me visions of sistering the bottom chord of a roof truss with a couple 2x6s to reinforce it, wedging a 4x4 post sitting on a suitable Simpson Strong-Tie bracket from Home Depot that's anchored to the garage floor so it won't kick out, slipping another 4x4 beneath the car from side to side with some 2x4 scraps tacked on and judiciously placed to catch the lift point seams, then sticking a couple 2K pound capacity come-alongs on both sides of it, hanging from the beefed up truss and jack the front end up until the roof hits the high ceiling... a homemade gantry crane as it were. Then the vision came to me of a heavy vehicle bludgeoning me to death when it fell from a distance of four or so feet, so I rolled over and went to sleep. Has anyone ever jury-rigged a similar contraption and lived to tell about it?