Ferrari Mailing List: Re: [FC]: What's wrong with the Boxer?

[Michael James (cavallino_rapante]

I have this identical jack in my garage now, I use it regularly to lift my 308 
onto jackstands.  Its 'good', but not 'great' in that the jack is dead-lifting 
a weight close to its max-rating.  It will push the car up, but it will require 
some serious pushing DOWN on the handle to get the car to rise.  Sooner or 
later, I will end up blowing seals, but until then I'm getting my money's 
worth.  Charles Perry has/had Harbour Freight's 'one-tier-up' racing jack that 
has a very-similar low profile, but has an extra 1,000 LB. lift capacity - I 
believe its only another $60 more.....  

M

--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Martin Stark <MStark [at] Copper.net> wrote:

From: Martin Stark <MStark [at] Copper.net>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] [FC]: What's wrong with the Boxer?
To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 5:27 PM

Have you tried one like this?  
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=91039

I'm thinking of getting a low profile jack similar to this one.  I'm 
getting tired of replacing the cup on my standard floor jack with a 
piece of plywood to get under the TR.

Erik Nielsen wrote:

>I have to lift up on the back bumper of the QV GTS to get a "low
>profile" jack under the sides.
>
>On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Hans E. Hansen
<FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Not just the Euro GT4.  I searched and searched for the lowest floor
jack
>>I could find and I still have to drive the car onto 1X4s to be able to
jack
>>it up.  I think the side frame rails are about 3" off the ground.
>>
>>Hans.
>>
>>On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:14 PM,  <red5hilser [at] aol.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I never realized how low the ride height is in the Euro GT4 until
we had a spell of bad weather and I parked it for a few weeks and drove the 4x2
GMC 3/4 ton pickup.
>>>
>>>Holy bejeses! I thought that I was back racing my Super Fuel class
Go-Kart at Riverside!
>>>
>>>Yer 'looking under the rear bumpers' -- Ferrari Bubba
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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