What's the best compact automobile jack?

Feb 06, 2009 by Ray P | Posted in Other - Cars & Transportation

Is it a scissor jack? Hydraulic? Bottle-type?

My goal:
1) To replace the flimsy jack that came with my car. So a replacement needs to be lightweight.
2) To do basic maintainance (oil change, brakes, etc) with jack stands.

I'm not sure of a brand, but try like um.. Kragens auto parts or Auto Zone. They'll have what your looking for. Best of luck.

FourWheeler D | Feb 06, 2009

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AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard is an optimist when it comes to putting 33 cars in this year's Indianapolis 500. "We haven't had a race since 1947 that didn't have that many cars (33) and we have to do everything we can to make sure we get 33," Bernard told The Associated Press. There were similar questions in 2003, the last time the series changed cars, and it was a consistent question in the early days of the IndyCar-CART split back in the 1990s. Of course it wouldn't look good to break with tradition now, a season in which IndyCar officials have put a brand new car on the track and brought back turbocharged engines. On Sunday, Bernard offered to help find sponsors, engines and any other assistance to assure the traditional starting field is full for the May 27 race. The trick, of course, will be making it happen.

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Hydraulic Jack- An Important Instrument In Construction Industry ...

by Aya Wilkinson

However there are few others like floor jacks & bottle jacks, which are often used. Now the suction ball inside the chamber is closed and pressure of the oil increases in the piston chamber. Oil is utilised, as the plunger backs away, it guides oil out of the source by a suction valve in side the pump chamber. When the piston displaces ahead, it drives the oil through a discharge check valve into the piston chamber. A hydraulic jack uses a fluid, which is incompressible and is constrained into a cylinder by a pump piston. This platform makes use of the same tool called The Hydraulic Jack. The dispatch valve ball is out of the chamber and opens when the oil is forced into the cylinder. The most common ones are the mechanical jacks....

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