Jack slipped WTF?!!!

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JWerner2

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OK so the POS thing where the jack goes bent out and the jack slipped out making the car fall pinching my hand between the fender and the wheel.

The jack caught the car at a lower spot when it slipped since it only slipped and didn't fall but it got caught under the side skirt area thank god!!!! You can see the rings where it caught the skirt area.


Now I'm sure I have some busted bones in my right hand and I need to find out how much integrity this piece gives the car.

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God damn it hurts but its a funny pain, it kinda burns a bit like under the skin. Also, the disc for the wheel I was switching out fell on the inside of the wheels barrel. Again, thank god it only slid a bit and caught the car cause it only left a barely noticeable if at all scratch on the inside of the barrel.

I'm off to the ER for some X-Rays and I'll post pics of the wheels later.
 
rickztahone said:
how are you typing man? hope it isn't major
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Wow that was fast! I type good with one hand or even slow with both hands...lol!. I never was good at really typing the right way but I can start to feel the pain on the bone now. Maybe I can get some pics of the X-Rays if they are worth it. I have busted some bones in this spot before so I have some spurs built up from it not setting right. I just hope I wont need to have it re broken on some spots this time.

I'll try for some shots of my hand later. Its starting to swell from below my thumb area on the back of my hand to the bottom of my pinky finger and you can see a bit of some bruising already unless its just some grimeage from the fender area.

A side note: I need some springs for sure then it would lok great! I should have gotten the 45 series.
 
Mark VIIIs get all bent along that lower seam too. Those ' emergency' jacks are crap - get yourself some proper jacks and use them on a more solid part of the car. (i always jack up on my subframes, never the body itself -look in your manual, should tell you all the jacking points)

With any luck, your injury is just some deep bruising - you got lucky - better than a severed figure!
 
93' Blue on blue said:
Mark VIIIs get all bent along that lower seam too. Those ' emergency' jacks are crap - get yourself some proper jacks and use them on a more solid part of the car. (i always jack up on my subframes, never the body itself -look in your manual, should tell you all the jacking points)

With any luck, your injury is just some deep bruising - you got lucky - better than a severed figure!
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:q:q:q:q yeah. I gotta wait for the wife to get back from work now to take me in. Typing with one hand sucks so this is my last for the night or at least till I et some painkillers in me.

used a flor jack and I could have sworn that is the jacking point but it was the last wheel I put on so I was rushing it and didnt place it just right I guess.

Thank god I still had the scisor jack. I couldnt jack up the car under the skrt area so ( well I did just enough to get my hand out and I still had to squeeze it )I had to just leave that jack in place and use that POS jack to get it out and reposition it. I have been through alot the last few days thank god, I think with everything going on with my grandmother and all my nerves have been dead or I might have just paniced.
 
JWerner2 said:
I type good with one hand.
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Sounds like someone is into cybersex :p

J/K man. Sucks about your hand. Without insurance, the xrays alone would be more than fixing the car (if anything would've went wrong on that end)!
 
93' Blue on blue said:
(i always jack up on my subframes, never the body itself -look in your manual, should tell you all the jacking points)
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There are three lifting points under the engine cradle and two on/near the rear suspension cradle mounting points, but I can't reach them on my '06 (the LSE ground effects are too close to the ground, so there's no room to operate the jack handle), so those side rail lifting points are pretty much it. Get yourself a good floor jack, and those side rail lifting points are all you'll need.

And, just because it bears repeating,
DO NOT lift an LS by any of its suspension components (unless it's a matter of life and death).
 
Ouch. Hopefully the wheels look good. I've had that same "funny pain" when I fell off my dirtbike and tried back up away from it, sliding right into a tree. bike came crashing down on my toes, motor hit the top of my foot. Then I got stuck in the woods in freezing water a foot and a half deep. Broke 4 toes.
 
Those jack points are bent all to hell on every car Ive ever seen. They work well enough to hold the car in the air, but they don't have any support if the car shifts to the side. That's one of the reasons you put jack stands under the subframe.
 
That sucks dude, i hope everything is ok.

I'm always afraid my car is going to fall on me. I always put multiple jack stands under it, leave the jack under with some pressure on it and put blocks under the wheels, but i still get nervous working on it (especially when i'm laying underneath of it, i'm just paranoid i guess).
 
Yes, please invest in some jack stands!!.. im glad you werent injured anymore seriously..

and instead of creating a new profile for every pic you want to upload, why not use photobucket...
 
omg, I hope it's not too bad. ANd I can't believe you took the time to post on here before going to the hospital or something lol!
 
Thanks everyone. Right now I'm typing with my left hand and right ring finger. Was at the ER all night and found I have a few busted bones. The bones going to my pointer finger is are all busted up and so are the bones going to my middle finger. They put mt hand in a half cast with a ACE wrap and now I'm like throwing peace signs all day. I got some good painkillers out of the deal,...lol!

They wouldn't let me have any X-Rays cause insurance only pays for one set and they would need to give me duplicates so I said no way am I paying for that. The bruising went down n my hand but its still swollen if anyone wants pics to clarify still I will take them but it really don't seem to show anything but the red mark and maybe if lucky some swelling. I wish I still had the bruise, that was cool. It like had perfect outlines straight from my thumb over to my pinky finger.

I should have just been patient and waited to put the wheels on like I wanted to but I saw on the weather channel that we were doomed for rain just about all month anyway so as soon as I got a nice break I put them on. I juts couldn't have them sitting around for the kids to scratch em up or something.

Weathers bad so no pics of the car yet but I'll say I should get some 40series or something on cause it looks a bit funny till I get springs, well the back does. The front looks good and the hyper silver matches the metallic frost like a dream. I cant wait to slam the car. The color of the wheels will flow so nice with the car.

Another crappy thing I noticed which slap some pics of then, the jack did do some damage to the actual bod of the car around the bottom of the door frame area just above the side skirt area. The door closes and stays shut and you cant tell it there unless you look for it but I'm pissed cause this slight incident just messed some things up on a otherwise very pristine taken care of car.


Oh I do have a good floor jack and I do have jack stands but I am one to be scared of going under the car like someone else said and the stands really just don't appear to be much more safe ( at least mine ) but I know they are. I just get worried about things like this. I knew someone w few years back, not really a friend but a school mate that had his car fall on him crushing him instantly. Thank god I was lucky.


Oh one thing I wondered about. If I use the jack stands how do I put them under the car? The floor jack allready takes up all the space where the jacking point is that I have showed. Where else could I put them?
 
jumpman6235 said:
Yes, please invest in some jack stands!!.. im glad you werent injured anymore seriously..

and instead of creating a new profile for every pic you want to upload, why not use photobucket...
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What do you mean by multiple profiles?


I used LVC for ths one caus I just wanted to take the pic right off the camera and quick get it up before the swelling started.


I am going to do a snap fish or something I guess.
 
Wow, luckily it was only the hand, this could have come out much much worse. Hope it all turns out ok
 
JWerner2 said:
Oh one thing I wondered about. If I use the jack stands how do I put them under the car? The floor jack allready takes up all the space where the jacking point is that I have showed. Where else could I put them?
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If you have the LSE body kit, pretty much all you can do with just a floor jack and some jack stands is lift the car by the side rails and put the jack stands under the engine cradle; however, given the shape of the lifting points on the cradle, I'm not sure I'd trust a jack stand under one.

You could always drive the car onto a good set of ramps to gain clearance below the air dam/rear fascia, then jack the car up by the engine cradle enough to set the jack stand(s) under the side rail(s). One trick like this that I've used is to take two or three progressively shorter scraps of 2x8 pressure-treated lumber, nail/glue them together in a stack, then cut a bevel on one end to form a short makeshift ramp. It will only raise the car ~4-6 inches, but that's really all you need to get clearance for the floor jack. Pressure-treated lumber will last for years, and 2x8s are wide enough and compression-resistant enough to be perfectly safe for this application.

Personally, I have a 3-ton Craftsman floor jack that weighs, oh, about 3 tons ( ;) ), so when I need to do something that requires removing a wheel, I just block the wheels and use it under the side rail. If I have to get under the car, I use a good set of ramps.

Hope the hands gets better...
 
If I need under the car I use ramps, if I'm taking wheels off, I just use floor jacks. I dont use jackstands often, I had a stand slip on me once, never had floor jack move. Glad nothing was severed.
 
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