Why you dont let friends work on your car- drop car on jack

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Jul 25, 2002 | 12:55 PM

ericdwong

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Why you dont let friends work on your car- drop car on jack

My dummy friend I let work on my car weld my muffler tip on last week made a boo boo. That fah king moron dropped the rear of my car on the jack. I thought it missed but today I was cleaning my trunk and I noticed my subwoofers were contacting the torsion bars, something it did not do before. I remove the trunk contents and low and behold I see:

I get below and I see:

I took a sledge hammer and a old rubber floor mat and I beat the F outta that dent until it looked like this.

Jul 25, 2002 | 01:08 PM

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how exactly did he do that?

Jul 25, 2002 | 01:16 PM

ericdwong

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It was being jacked up by the rear beam to raise the rear of the car. The jack slipped off the rear beam while he was jacking it higher cause he didnt position it right. Goodthing he wasnt under the car. The jack went thru the spare tire well. Goodthing it wasnt the fuel tank...

Jul 25, 2002 | 01:33 PM

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this is one of the reasons why i don't like working under my car. I'll just have to borrow my friend's ramps whenever i do anything major that will make me stay under for more than 30 minutes.

Jul 25, 2002 | 01:36 PM

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you should have just crushed it some more, and added a dual exhaust.

you were halfway there...

Jul 25, 2002 | 01:37 PM

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Sorry this thread beings back memories.

Back in my high school days I was working on a 1969 VW fastback. The car was a bit rotten to say the least.

Well it didn't exactly fall off the jack... Get this....

The jack went through the frame it was so rusted out, and down came the car.

Took us a while to figure out how to get the jack out from under the car after that happened.

Those were the days......

Jul 25, 2002 | 02:18 PM

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Jul 25, 2002 | 03:35 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by ericdwong
It was being jacked up by the rear beam to raise the rear of the car. The jack slipped off the rear beam while he was jacking it higher cause he didnt position it right. Goodthing he wasnt under the car. The jack went thru the spare tire well. Goodthing it wasnt the fuel tank...

No Doubt!!!!

Jul 25, 2002 | 06:16 PM

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The same thing happend to me, My friend dropped my car when installing my lowering spring

Jul 25, 2002 | 07:44 PM

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my friends stock jack bent while he was tring to change his tire..........it was a mitsubishi

Jul 25, 2002 | 08:07 PM

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i used to work at goodyear, and someone put the arms for the rack on the frame rails of an old mazda pickup, but didn't realize that they were rusted through. When he set the truck back down, the shocks shot through the bed and into the ceiling. no one was hurt.