Making Wheel Cribs

They are used in everything from rescue operations to shoring up buildings.

Making wheel cribs. Once you use an impact driver. They cradle the tire off the ground providing unobstructed access underneath the car. Cut 2 pieces at 15 long and cut the remainder exactly in half should be close to 33 long. They cradle the tire 8 10 or 12 off the ground depending on the model providing unobstructed access underneath the car.

Wheel cribs can be used in conjunction with race ramps vehicle ramps allows your car to be level while raised. Verify that the measurements in this post will work for your vehicle s. To get the car high enough to place the cribs under the tires a platform is needed to raise the floor jack. How to make wooden car stands wheel cribs materials.

I used a 2 x 10 x 8 to make a box using butt joints. Wheel cribs are a safe lightweight alternative to jack stands. Made of lightweight polystyrene with an attached strap handle these cradles are easy to maneuver yet can hold up to 3 000 lbs per pair. Wheel cribs are a safe lightweight alternative to jack stands.

Don t worry at all about them if you put them together right. It is called box cribbing and if you do some googleing you will see that it is an elemental engineering design. The race ramps solid car wheel cribs are a safer alternative to traditional jack stands for holding a vehicle up for maintenance or display. When checking out all the specs of a crib make sure to push it around to get a feel of how stale it is.

Always get asked where i got my stands for my car. You ll need 10 boards per wheel. He has all the saws and stuff to cut them. When i was shopping for a crib there were a few lower grade cribs that literally looked like they wanted to fall a part right in the store.

I used grks because that s all i had. Soo here you go got my buddy brent at hyper formance llc to make them for me. Each crib supports 1 500 pounds 3 000 pounds per set and weighs only 5 pounds.