jahudso2

Yeah you cant do some suspension work or brake work on ramps, but I feel much safer breaking loose bolts torqued over 100 ftlbs when my wheels are sitting on ramps rather than if my whole car is being held up by a skiny piece of metal. Jack stands just seem like they would fall over if i disturbed the car by shaking it or something.

157dB

Somewhere right about here:

Riptide

That's true ramps seem to be more stable because the car is contacting more of the ground that way. As was mentioned the work you can do on ramps is somewhat limited vs. jack stands. Honestly if the car is resting on the proper points of contact the jack stands are very steady. The car just weighs so much that you would really need to push extremely hard to get it to tip over. I'm honestly not even sure you could do it. Anyone wanna try and post back the results?

avengence

I cant really use ramps anymore. I used to but since I lowered it, when I change my oil I drive up onto 2x4s and then jack the car up and drop it onto ramps. That usually takes the longest when changing the oil. For suspension work I just use jack stands on the front subframe or the back near where the crontrol arms mount to the body.

jahudso2

Just jack the car up from the PUMPKIN!

avengence

Seriously though why does the pumpkin have cutouts for a jack if you arent supposed to use one on it?

digitalcos

To hold the axle up for installation and work, just the weight of the axle, not the whole car.

157dB

+1

The axle tubes are just simply inserted into the pumpkin
casting and welded thru two holes on the sideof the casting.
Not the top or the bottom but just the sides to keep the axle tubes
from slipping out. Crawl under there and check it out for yourself...
Not much vertical load handling capabilities in that type of assembly
hence the owners manual recommending no pumpkin jacking allowed....