Easiest way to jack up rear of truck and put jack stands under it?
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RE: Easiest way to jack up rear of truck and put jack stands under it?
ORIGINAL: Socha_62
More random information!! Correct, shocks don't support any weight! But what other deviece does?
And answer is....STRUTS!!!
Lots of people don;t actually know that
Shocks support no weight while struts are beefier cause they do support weight! 
More random information!! Correct, shocks don't support any weight! But what other deviece does?
And answer is....STRUTS!!!
Lots of people don;t actually know that
Shocks support no weight while struts are beefier cause they do support weight!
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RE: Easiest way to jack up rear of truck and put jack stands under it?
thanks for all you guys info. I am going to try it w/ the truck on the ground and take the spare off like someone said to give me more room and see how that goes.
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RE: Easiest way to jack up rear of truck and put jack stands under it?
i was only talking about how the truck acts while not shocks are attached.. nothing about weight bearing..... kinda funny that it went there though..
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RE: Easiest way to jack up rear of truck and put jack stands under it?
ORIGINAL: fiveliterbtr
The coil spring supports the weight, not the strut
The coil spring supports the weight, not the strut
Like on the 1st generation W-body GMs [8D]
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RE: Easiest way to jack up rear of truck and put jack stands under it?
oh my goodness.... if i didn't know better i'd say you've done that silver....
after having my stock jack slip out on me.. i would really have a problem with doing what that guy did
either the boards are going to break or the tires are going to slip and roll the truck on the roof. if nothing happened he got VERY lucky.
after having my stock jack slip out on me.. i would really have a problem with doing what that guy did
either the boards are going to break or the tires are going to slip and roll the truck on the roof. if nothing happened he got VERY lucky.
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RE: Easiest way to jack up rear of truck and put jack stands under it?
i was just saying its pretty sweet how bouncy it is w/out shocks, wasnt being stupid i know wtf they are for.. [:@][:@][sm=owned.gif]
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RE: Easiest way to jack up rear of truck and put jack stands under it?
ORIGINAL: Silver_Dodge
I always thought this was how you jack up a truck
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I always thought this was how you jack up a truck
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He's probably welding up a hole in his gas tank.