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frame rail : how bad is yours
'87 944 na
yeah, asking the obvious here - was going to show a pic but why bother - my frame rail is dinged up from numerous sessions on the jack stands. there's that hole there and its bent in, urethane coating is flaking off. been thinking about making a good cushion.
how do people protect this? I have seen the Harbor Freight jack pads for 8 bucks (!), and a hockey puck is 7mm, and that's the width of the rail roughly, and a puck is so thick I figure it could slip anyways when the other side is jacked up because it wobbles so much. apparently BMW owners discuss this way more than anyone else (there's a long thread easily found where the guy cuts up some pucks to custom fit in there). haven't bought a pile of wood yet.
shouldn't the pad be on the rail so it spreads the force out as it descends? also alignment of the rail edges and the jack edges is critical I think... and the rear jack stand point I'll leave for another posting.
is the hole on the rail for a mythical jack cushion?...
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