How to build homemade jack stands. I needed some burly jackstands to support various heavy vehicles. I ran across ChuckE2009's jackstand video, and figured I would follow suit and make my own.
Good job better then that junk poor stands at the store am in the middle of building my own ones two am going to bulid 4 of them just so if I need to have all 4 tires up but ya good job keep it coming !!!!
Someday some einstein will make a jackstand that uses an acme thread rather than those damned toothed rails or holes that are always just a little too high or too low. I've seen big jackstands, around five feet tall, with acme threads but never car-sized ones.
Not bad, though I think the second set of pin holes in the bottom unit might weaken it... do you really need that fine of an adjustment? Would've just stuck with one hole for the bottom unit, and made the topmost u bar/rest thing adjustable by 1 inch. But all the steel bars look strong enough anyways. Worse case scenario is the top set of holes on the bottom unit fail and the car falls down 1 inch
Thanks for the comments. The top holes are slightly weaker than the bottom, but it would still be very unlikely to shear. If the situation arises where that would be a concern, I simply use the bottom hole. In hindsight I could rotated the tube 90 degrees, and eliminated that possibility. Alternatively, I could weld a 1/4 plate to either side of the jack stand.
makes life easy for removing things like transmissions if you dont have a lift, or wiring a trailer you can sit up under it and slide around on a creeper makes it enjoyable and like half the time
