Thanks, think I'll make a set. A suggestion for moving things in and out under a raised vehicle; I have a hook about 36 inches long with a D loop on one end and a hook, about three inches, on the other. The whole thing is 3/8 HR steel. Saves a lot of bending and grunting and makes it really easy to push/pull the stands into place. This is especially good for old guys like me; 78.
Awesome video! I didn’t allow my Jack to move and the car came down towards me…luckily I had Chucks in place to stop it from running me over. Simple instructions forgotten over decades since HS shop class in the 80s.
I am just deciding that I need more room when working under my vehicles. I find your approach something I think will work for me. Thanks a nice video ...
Yeah, someone below suggesting stackable (maybe you did too) - like maybe make 2 cribs like yours and 4 cribs half height and then raise car up in steps - front raised half crib go around to back raise full crib height back around to front add other half step - and you don’t need the jack stands?? Sounds good to me! I came across this video and the whole concept of wooden wheel cribs which was new to me accidentally while researching jack stands thinking I’d have to buy 4 of them for a clutch replacement job I’m thinking of DIY’ing and thinking jack stands still might not be high enough. I’ll skip the stands and just make these! Thanks for excellent video!
Dan. Using a hockey puck in your jack pad makes a good non-mar/ non-slip pad. I'm planning on making an insert for my jack with milk jug plastic. If you like the idea, you're welcome to make a video on that.
Cribbing is ancient and versatile. For example your style cribbing can be used with a pantograph "scissor" lift to raise the vehicle. Place cribbing stands, lower scissor lift and now you have full access to the bottom of the vehicle. Otherwise those lifts are much less useful. I tie ropes to my cribbing which makes it super easy to remove and drag. Check out first responder and towing/recovery vides on cribbing for more cool stuff mechanics can use.
Thank you. Have you ever seen a homemade wooden stand tip or fail during use? Good tip about a piece of plywood for use under the jack (and jack stands, too!) if you don't have a garage or concrete driveway - the jack's wheels and metal jack stand legs will dig into dirt and even asphalt surfaces and won't roll well (or at all).
To extend my jack higher I use a 4x4 cut off coz I don't like separate pieces of wood which can move. Also, when the jack has the tires higher than the 7 inch deck on my plastic Walmart Rhino ramps, I slide the ramps under both tires before continuing up ... ..... high enough for my big heavy duty 6 ton stands (with rubber pieces of hockey pucks) to fit under the body jack stand points....just it case it falls..
With regards to your floor jack moving forward and backward when lifting or lowering, make sure your floor is clean and free of any little pebbles, they will jamb a wheel and stop it moving. I damaged an original Hemi oil pan when lowering, a pebble stopped the jack from moving back, and the jack pad slide off the centre of the K member and onto the oil pan. I use old Hockey pucks on the jack centre pad as well as other places, those things are everywhere in Canada.
Good job! I ended up using epoxy instead of glue when joining the 2x4's, glue should suffice but using epoxy just gives me an extra layer of peace of mind.. Nonetheless it looks like you thought your process out well !
@@RestoCar no problem. Thx for the video! I know that videos like yours take alot of time and effort, more than one would think! Oh, and for the epoxy, I see you are familiar with harbor freight, they have a harbor freight brand that is pretty cheap and just as effective. And just with any epoxy, you have to be quick after mixing the 2 parts. Use a pair of clamps such as you would with regular glue, again i use harbor freight clamps as they are cheap and get the job done
A bunch of concrete plates would do the job too. I have a ramp that works like a seesaw that is blocked on one side. You drive from one side upwards and when you are close to the end, the weight (because of the unbalanced weight of a front engine car) of the car gets you down in a horizontal position. When the car is tilting, two shock absorbers do reduce the speed of the tilting. If you want to get off the ramp, you have to drive backwards. You have about 100cm space under the car, if the car is on the ramp.. The only disadvantage is, that the car needs to be working. The BIG advantage is the mobility. You can assemble the ramp in 30 minutes by hand and you can transport the ramp in a station wagon. I did it once in a hatchback (Opel Vectra) by removing the passenger seat.
excellent video. I have built this type of wood cribs for my speakers but I have never thought about using it on car. It is a much much safer way to jack up the car. Thank again.
This is something I was shown many, many years ago, but anyways if you put your speakers on bricks / cinder blocks they actually sound better because they have a more solid foundation... You would be surprised, some people don't notice but a serious sound person like myself can tell a difference...
I built steel stands well oversized for a reasons but works the same way. I seen video in feed and wanted to see if you did it different lol. You didn't. Very handy setup for many different projects.
Thanks for the video very helpful! I am thinking of making some wooden stands purely for a safety backup if my normal jack stands were to ever fail the car could fall onto the wooden ones. I think you can never be too safe.
Another great tip is to have your ex-wife assist you with an extra set of eyes under your vehicle when you are jacking it up from a safe area outside the vehicle...........
They can be used with car dollies too So when you make them . MAKE them the right size. Don't Drop them . Keep them dry. When you're not using them. They make a nice bench,or go under bench. You can also make one for the ja k, for doing your exhaust. But it doesn't roll. Put a carry Handel in them too. Good for doing quarter panels.
Excellent. Thanks for the video. Didn't see you did test for stability after the car was on the air. F.ex, try pushing the car in different directions to see if side load is also safe enough. It's been more than 3 years what do you say now? How is it going with the use of those wooden cribs? Are you still using it?
Asphault is sketch it sinks in especially with big vehicles on hot days i like to grab the jack handle and yank it side to side if it's not rolling while i lift
I hate the k member on my third gen. Trying to put the car up on these, the jack can't go high enough. So I put two blocks of wood underneath, but the front of the k member has a small flat spot, then sharply angles up.
thnx for safety tips too .maybe i'll drive on these with ramps for fronts ,get ramps out of the way then do rear like you shown ? i think i'll drop my fuel tank like this .looks more spacious, free up my one jack. your Cragars are killer!!! inspired
3:13 mark to 3:35 mark. His rear end left a mark, he has a jack pad and he glued and screwed, all without a giggle. He and I are not the same. Thank you for the informative video though, it helps.
These are awesome and I am planning to make a set following your video. I had a question. I see you have the rear end on jack stands which are on top of the cribs. I was told I need to take the rear end out to replace the rear rails. Where do you recommend would be most safe to set the jack stands while I have the rear end out. Thank you in advance for your response.
Those jack saddles can be filled to make them flat. Unless you need the teeth for something, filling under your blockung is a good idea. I use a couple layers of tire sidewall cut with a hole saw. It's removeable.
What about cars that only have a lower control arm? When the car is lowered, the wheels contact in extreme positive camber which basically wants to push outward.
I am a very recent diy mechanic, just me Google, UA-cam and a few shop manuals to be able to maintain my 2010 Hyundai Elantra and I have to drop my gas tank to get to my evap system again. this may seem like a dumb question but what should I do to compensate for the slight slope in my driveway while jacking up my car? The only place I have to work on car is my driveway that is slightly slopped to allow rain waterto drain into a grate in the center. Is it best to have my car parked centered over top of the grate to Begin with? After the recent harbor freight jack stand recall im to nervous to trust any jack stands by themselves.
Jack stands are no good if the ground isint level. Instead i would use stone blocks and wood on top to spread the weight just to make sure the weight of the car doesnt crack the stone. Make sure to keep the car level by adding wood blocks. And also choke the wheels very securely when jacking up as the car can move froward when jacking if the ground isint level. Then push and pull the car to make sure its solid and not going anywhere. And there are videos on you tube that deal with jacking a car on inclined ground so check them out. Hope my comment helps
I did this years ago with cinder blocks , but they looked more like pyramids. It was a little VW rabbit and the bases were big enough to where you couldn't roll between the front tires with a creeper ,fuzzy memory says they were like 4' by 4' at the base, but the rocker panels were at mid chest height and was a heck of a lot nicer to replace. If someone doesn't know how to lay a cinder block down the right way so it doesn't collapse when weight is on it, well I can't help ya.
Quick question. Sort of just want some input of this idea.. so i have a lowered mustang i built wheel cribs that are about 6" tall then ill be adding 4 casters to each crib and that will add another 6.5" to my cribs. Each caster can hold around 330 lbs and ill have 16, 4 for each wheel. They lock as well. The car weighs around 3600 lbs. And thr casters together can hold around 5300 lbs. Would you personally work underneath something knowing, that thats something that would be holding it?
What’s up guy? I’m three years late but I got to do it myself. Getting ready to remove a transmission for my car. I would like to make the wheel crib. But I don’t see the video that you said you have on it. Can you send it to me. Three years too late and you have a blessed one.
Thanks, think I'll make a set. A suggestion for moving things in and out under a raised vehicle; I have a hook about 36 inches long with a D loop on one end and a hook, about three inches, on the other. The whole thing is 3/8 HR steel. Saves a lot of bending and grunting and makes it really easy to push/pull the stands into place. This is especially good for old guys like me; 78.
Finally a complete video that shows how to jack up the car properly to get the jack pad under it. Great job! THANK YOU!
I love the riser for your jack pad, i never thought of making a space for the high spot...
Awesome video!
I didn’t allow my Jack to move and the car came down towards me…luckily I had Chucks in place to stop it from running me over.
Simple instructions forgotten over decades since HS shop class in the 80s.
Really like that body style!
A walk in the park the way you explained and demonstrated the proper use of the cribs and the jackstands, great video!
Awesome solution with the lowest needed cost. Wow, amazing! thanks,👍👍👍
I am just deciding that I need more room when working under my vehicles. I find your approach something I think will work for me. Thanks a nice video ...
Love 2nd gen F bodies. Thank you for this!
Thanks so much! Exactly what i needed.
Yeah, someone below suggesting stackable (maybe you did too) - like maybe make 2 cribs like yours and 4 cribs half height and then raise car up in steps - front raised half crib go around to back raise full crib height back around to front add other half step - and you don’t need the jack stands?? Sounds good to me!
I came across this video and the whole concept of wooden wheel cribs which was new to me accidentally while researching jack stands thinking I’d have to buy 4 of them for a clutch replacement job I’m thinking of DIY’ing and thinking jack stands still might not be high enough. I’ll skip the stands and just make these!
Thanks for excellent video!
If you stack the cribs, make sure to use dowels or something so that slippage between the two cribs does not occur.
Thanks for doing these videos you taught me a lot!!!! I messed up the first crib but due to your videos I’m on the right route now!!!!
You're welcome. Good to hear you are back on track!
RestoCar yes sir!!! Thanks again brother amazing 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Going to build a set this weekend. Glad I found this video.
Dan. Using a hockey puck in your jack pad makes a good non-mar/ non-slip pad. I'm planning on making an insert for my jack with milk jug plastic. If you like the idea, you're welcome to make a video on that.
That's a great idea, thanks for sharing!
I only came to find out how to make those Wooden car stands but watched the whole video on jacking instead. Great video!
Thanks! I had a lot of questions about how to get the car on the stands once built.
Cribbing is ancient and versatile. For example your style cribbing can be used with a pantograph "scissor" lift to raise the vehicle. Place cribbing stands, lower scissor lift and now you have full access to the bottom of the vehicle. Otherwise those lifts are much less useful. I tie ropes to my cribbing which makes it super easy to remove and drag. Check out first responder and towing/recovery vides on cribbing for more cool stuff mechanics can use.
I've been using tire cribs to work on my '70 Camaro for years now. I would add wheel chocks to your list of tools.
Excellent! Just built the wheel cribs and it really helped watching doing the lift in stages. Thanks!
There was a lot of good, useful information in this video. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for your detail demonstration, really helpful.
Great video! Thanks for posting!
Excellent step by step thorough information, thank you!
Thank you. Have you ever seen a homemade wooden stand tip or fail during use? Good tip about a piece of plywood for use under the jack (and jack stands, too!) if you don't have a garage or concrete driveway - the jack's wheels and metal jack stand legs will dig into dirt and even asphalt surfaces and won't roll well (or at all).
Very simple... Very efective, some of the true spirit of homemade, a good idea with few tec, i like it, thank for share, hi from Chile.
Excellent stuff
To extend my jack higher I use a 4x4 cut off coz I don't like separate pieces of wood which can move. Also, when the jack has the tires higher than the 7 inch deck on my plastic Walmart Rhino ramps, I slide the ramps under both tires before continuing up ... ..... high enough for my big heavy duty 6 ton stands (with rubber pieces of hockey pucks) to fit under the body jack stand points....just it case it falls..
Use a stick with a nail or screw at the end to place and remove the stands underneath the car. simple and safer. Great Vid.
Great tip, thanks for sharing. I'll definitely do that next time. It's not worth taking a chance on the jack.
Sounding a lot like my high school football coach lol. Thanks much for all the tips. Very helpful ✌️🏾
Very thorough video!
Excellent tutorial it gave me ideas for my own project....Thank You Sir!
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing!
With regards to your floor jack moving forward and backward when lifting or lowering, make sure your floor is clean and free of any little pebbles, they will jamb a wheel and stop it moving. I damaged an original Hemi oil pan when lowering, a pebble stopped the jack from moving back, and the jack pad slide off the centre of the K member and onto the oil pan. I use old Hockey pucks on the jack centre pad as well as other places, those things are everywhere in Canada.
Thanks for the solid tips. This is great information and well-presented.
Thanks. Saw these in a FB group and wondered how it was done. Will invest. I would take it car/truck needs emergency brake on correct?
Good job! I ended up using epoxy instead of glue when joining the 2x4's, glue should suffice but using epoxy just gives me an extra layer of peace of mind..
Nonetheless it looks like you thought your process out well !
Great tip, I haven't used epoxy on wood before. I'll give it a try next time. Thanks!
@@RestoCar no problem. Thx for the video! I know that videos like yours take alot of time and effort, more than one would think!
Oh, and for the epoxy, I see you are familiar with harbor freight, they have a harbor freight brand that is pretty cheap and just as effective. And just with any epoxy, you have to be quick after mixing the 2 parts. Use a pair of clamps such as you would with regular glue, again i use harbor freight clamps as they are cheap and get the job done
A good wood glue is stronger than the wood its holding together.....so dont waste your money
Good video. It gave me some helpful tips.
Bro, this is a great video.
Great video. Thank you.
Great video, thanks bro.
A bunch of concrete plates would do the job too.
I have a ramp that works like a seesaw that is blocked on one side. You drive from one side upwards and when you are close to the end, the weight (because of the unbalanced weight of a front engine car) of the car gets you down in a horizontal position. When the car is tilting, two shock absorbers do reduce the speed of the tilting. If you want to get off the ramp, you have to drive backwards.
You have about 100cm space under the car, if the car is on the ramp.. The only disadvantage is, that the car needs to be working. The BIG advantage is the mobility. You can assemble the ramp in 30 minutes by hand and you can transport the ramp in a station wagon. I did it once in a hatchback (Opel Vectra) by removing the passenger seat.
Very cool. Just what I need, thank you!
very educative. Thank you
No wheel chocks for the front wheels when raising the back? How did the car not roll forward?
This is something I've been thinking about for years.
Well done! Thanks for posting!
Thanks!
This guy has military training.. I can tell by his precise crisp sequenced instructions
excellent video. I have built this type of wood cribs for my speakers but I have never thought about using it on car. It is a much much safer way to jack up the car. Thank again.
This is something I was shown many, many years ago, but anyways if you put your speakers on bricks / cinder blocks they actually sound better because they have a more solid foundation... You would be surprised, some people don't notice but a serious sound person like myself can tell a difference...
I built steel stands well oversized for a reasons but works the same way. I seen video in feed and wanted to see if you did it different lol. You didn't. Very handy setup for many different projects.
Such a great breakdown! Thanks man
Thanks for the video very helpful! I am thinking of making some wooden stands purely for a safety backup if my normal jack stands were to ever fail the car could fall onto the wooden ones. I think you can never be too safe.
Was wondering how to do this after building them , thanks pal
Been thinking about building a set of these. Nice work Dan.
Thanks Russ. It's been nice having a set around.
Great explanation and thank you for making the video 👍
Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
Any methods for when you have to remove the front tires as part of the job as well?
Yes just put them under your jack points on your vehicle instead of under the tires.
Great videos thank you so much
You're welcome!
Great stuff - making mine tomorrow per your other video. I actually have 2 sets of ramps which I hope will speed up the process...
Great video, very helpful
Thanks!
Another great tip is to have your ex-wife assist you with an extra set of eyes under your vehicle when you are jacking it up from a safe area outside the vehicle...........
Nice demonstration great work
Thanks!
thanks. i want to know if the 2x8 measurements are nominal or real.? thanks for your help
I use a hockey puck on the jack pad
Great job thanks
Great information thanks
Great video
Very helpful! Thanks dude! Sweet ride too 😎👌
They can be used with car dollies too
So when you make them . MAKE them the right size. Don't Drop them . Keep them dry. When you're not using them. They make a nice bench,or go under bench. You can also make one for the ja k, for doing your exhaust. But it doesn't roll. Put a carry Handel in them too. Good for doing quarter panels.
Nice pull up bar.
Cool. Looks like I need to make some wheel Cribs
Excellent. Thanks for the video. Didn't see you did test for stability after the car was on the air. F.ex, try pushing the car in different directions to see if side load is also safe enough. It's been more than 3 years what do you say now? How is it going with the use of those wooden cribs? Are you still using it?
I do that every time I jack a vehicle, I actually try to make it fall...
Asphault is sketch it sinks in especially with big vehicles on hot days i like to grab the jack handle and yank it side to side if it's not rolling while i lift
Thanks!
Good job and video.
Thanks Dan!
I hate the k member on my third gen. Trying to put the car up on these, the jack can't go high enough. So I put two blocks of wood underneath, but the front of the k member has a small flat spot, then sharply angles up.
been thinking about building some to fit on dollies. everything in my garage is on wheels
Might be easier the have two shorter interlocking wheel cribs and place them under the wheels in two stages. That way you won't need wheel stands.
thats how i made mine
God bless ❤
thnx for safety tips too .maybe i'll drive on these with ramps for fronts ,get ramps out of the way then do rear like you shown ? i think i'll drop my fuel tank like this .looks more spacious, free up my one jack. your Cragars are killer!!! inspired
Good job. I made a set of these a couple weeks ago. Wish I had seen this years ago. I noticed your rear sway bar. Is that factory or aftermarket kit?
Would it be safe to do and fuel pump with these under a obs tahoe?
No every car has a subframe at the middle front. How would you lift the front then?
awesome thanks, great vid
Thanks Dan, cool video and nice car and cribs too , thanks for making the cool video. Now i am going to build a set too , thanks !!! : )
You're welcome!
3:13 mark to 3:35 mark. His rear end left a mark, he has a jack pad and he glued and screwed, all without a giggle. He and I are not the same. Thank you for the informative video though, it helps.
These are awesome and I am planning to make a set following your video. I had a question. I see you have the rear end on jack stands which are on top of the cribs. I was told I need to take the rear end out to replace the rear rails. Where do you recommend would be most safe to set the jack stands while I have the rear end out. Thank you in advance for your response.
The cribs can be placed on the jack points of the car (pinch welds).
Those jack saddles can be filled to make them flat. Unless you need the teeth for something, filling under your blockung is a good idea. I use a couple layers of tire sidewall cut with a hole saw. It's removeable.
Will the car move forward if I pull the driveshaft out?
Great videos-were you a Marine?
What about cars that only have a lower control arm? When the car is lowered, the wheels contact in extreme positive camber which basically wants to push outward.
Nice!
So once wheelchairs are in place, It's safe to go underneath to do work?
Are wooden wheel cribs safe?
I am a very recent diy mechanic, just me Google, UA-cam and a few shop manuals to be able to maintain my 2010 Hyundai Elantra and I have to drop my gas tank to get to my evap system again. this may seem like a dumb question but what should I do to compensate for the slight slope in my driveway while jacking up my car? The only place I have to work on car is my driveway that is slightly slopped to allow rain waterto drain into a grate in the center. Is it best to have my car parked centered over top of the grate to Begin with? After the recent harbor freight jack stand recall im to nervous to trust any jack stands by themselves.
Jack stands are no good if the ground isint level. Instead i would use stone blocks and wood on top to spread the weight just to make sure the weight of the car doesnt crack the stone. Make sure to keep the car level by adding wood blocks. And also choke the wheels very securely when jacking up as the car can move froward when jacking if the ground isint level. Then push and pull the car to make sure its solid and not going anywhere.
And there are videos on you tube that deal with jacking a car on inclined ground so check them out.
Hope my comment helps
is it safe to go higher then the ten boards high? maybe 12 or 14 high?
I did this years ago with cinder blocks , but they looked more like pyramids.
It was a little VW rabbit and the bases were big enough to where you couldn't roll between the front tires with a creeper ,fuzzy memory says they were like 4' by 4' at the base, but the rocker panels were at mid chest height and was a heck of a lot nicer to replace.
If someone doesn't know how to lay a cinder block down the right way so it doesn't collapse when weight is on it, well I can't help ya.
Quick question. Sort of just want some input of this idea.. so i have a lowered mustang i built wheel cribs that are about 6" tall then ill be adding 4 casters to each crib and that will add another 6.5" to my cribs. Each caster can hold around 330 lbs and ill have 16, 4 for each wheel. They lock as well. The car weighs around 3600 lbs. And thr casters together can hold around 5300 lbs. Would you personally work underneath something knowing, that thats something that would be holding it?
Great job stressing the safety aspect especially mentioning the part about "if you don't feel comfortable with..."
How many inches are those cribs? I have 8 inch wheel cribs, im guessing it'd be easier
Use plywood glued together for your pads
What’s up guy? I’m three years late but I got to do it myself. Getting ready to remove a transmission for my car. I would like to make the wheel crib. But I don’t see the video that you said you have on it. Can you send it to me. Three years too late and you have a blessed one.
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This is very cool! Hey, what is the height of your jack fully extended?