Thinking of using four wheels and setting the car on them for stands. Seems easy and safe but I never hear of anyone doing it. Is there a downside? Was just going to set the tire down into the center section.
I would not think that it would cause any problems if you still have wheels and tires on the car when you use them. From a safety standpoint. I think they would actually be safer because they would be way less prone to tipping like a jack stand can do. I have a slightly sloped garage floor and it worries the hell out of me watching those jackstands pivot some times until the car is lowered on them. You cant tell me a 8" square base is better than a 20" circular base. The local pick and pull actually uses steel wheels with the tires removed to get the cars up and off the ground. They use 8 wheels per a car. One wheels is welded perpendicularly to the base wheel at all 4 corners and the frames are set in the channel of the vertical wheel. They must be willing to risk their insurance on it. Besides I think the way you are talking about is much easier and safer.
Depending on the width of the rim and the backspacing, it may only raise it up 5" since its still sitting on the suspension.
I do it all the time... very safe! I have a set of 8's and 12's. Good luck! Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
A junk yard by me has all there cars on rim jack stands. They took one rim flat on the ground face up and welded another rim standing up to it. Thousands of cars are sitting on them. .
I have four wheel rims that I use all the time. I've even seen them stacked two high and welded together.
I think for a slanted floor they are great. You get a solid stance and platform compared to those little 2 by 5 inch deformed chicken claws.
pick a part does it all the time and I'm sure with the insurance they need that it is safe. they seem to like a donut spare laying flat (rubber on) with a regular sized wheel welded to it
Just like this, I just bought this one from a local pic-a-part to save the early VW wheel as well as the Ford it's welded to. As for the question, in a pinch yes, but jack stands would be beter, or build your own custom heavy duty ones.
I have used them with one wheel welded to the other, one standing and the other lieing down. very stable. I have also used concrete blocks, pieces of stump, bumper jacks and about any other thing that I could wedge between the ground and the car, so maybe you should take my experience with a grain of salt.
I've seen wheels stacked up like a 14" on top of a 15" and welded together and a plate across the center as a perch. Plenty strong and easy to make if you can live with the big footprint they have. I think it would be cool to weld a short piece piece of i-beam across the top wheel at the center. Also serves as a handle to pick it up by. Bob
One of the first Pick'n'Pulls around here had lots of those holding cars up, my mind screamed when I noticed some were '50 Mercs, and others were 15" and 16" early Fords! Years before, there were pre-'48 Ford & Merc rear axle housings, cut with crude fishmouths to lock under axles and lower control arms...
Railroad crossties work great too. They have good width and they can't compress and can be cut to nearly any length. They work great in gravel or the yard where a stand would sink. I call them my hillbilly jackstands. And yes, I do own several 6 ton stands also.
And before anyone criticizes me for it, if they're good enough to lift a house for moving (known as cribbing), they'll certainly hold the relatively light weight of a car.
Setting a car with independent suspension that was jacked up under the frame back onto the tires usually results in the tires pushing outward as the suspension settles. Probably not going to tip a rim over but something to keep in mind anyway.
A friend of mine worked as a house mover. He had his own 'house jacks', (largish-base cylindrical screw jacks) I helped him pull the drive train out of his '34 sedan, after the 324 Olds had murdered the 3rd '39 box. We used 8 house jacks, strategically placed...installed a LaSalle box and '49 Pontiac rear. Not bad for 17 year old hooligans...
I don't see any problem with the 2 wheels welded together as long as you're on concrete or the ground is real hard. I have a pair of the banjo axle housing stands I've had well over 50 years and still use them. Also have 2 pair of ramps that I got way back, maybe 60s, with the S&H Green Stamps you used to get when you bought groceries. Hey Skip, I know that you're old like me, and way out in the boonies, but what this "alone" comment? I remember a better half with you just about every time I've seen you around middle GA.
I send her off every morning with the same message, I love you now go make me some money. She's had one position or another in the car business for 25 years now, has a couple more to go.
My neighbor worked for a NY State carpenter shop for decades. Whatever we needed, all we had to do is ask. He'd come home with some pretty stout pieces of cut-offs that I had used for years. Not sure what it was exactly, but it was used for center dividers and light poles on the local parkways. Bob
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