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That's real unfortunate.

Remember kids, always use axle stands!

Darwinism?

beaver wrote:That's real unfortunate.

Remember kids, always use axle stands!

Pfft! Training wheels!

The moral is, don't use scissor jacks I'd say.

Ive seen a Trolly jack spit its guts with a car in the air

Even once a car is on chassis stands i like to give it the "push test"

Its sounds lame that I learned that in automotive at school but it sure works good, some people put chassis stands in less than ideal places too.

When I was at Polytech one of the tutors used to say that if he ever saw anyone under a car not supported by axle stands it'd be a race to see if they could get out before he let the jack down, never got to see it happen though.

Heard of a polytechnic tutor a few years back showing students how to put a car on axle stands. He put the jack under the sill in the middle on 1 side then jacked up the whole car! Then went around and did the other side! This as you are all aware isn't ideal! When he jacked up the other side the car slid off the stands! Safe to say he doesn't have a job there anymore!!!

DJZ wrote:When I was at Polytech one of the tutors used to say that if he ever saw anyone under a car not supported by axle stands it'd be a race to see if they could get out before he let the jack down, never got to see it happen though.

What was his name? I remember a similar thing

torqued wrote:

DJZ wrote:When I was at Polytech one of the tutors used to say that if he ever saw anyone under a car not supported by axle stands it'd be a race to see if they could get out before he let the jack down, never got to see it happen though.

What was his name? I remember a similar thing

I think it was Tony? He always used to go on about letting the claret out.

Yea. Just trying to picture his face. But yea sounds right.