How much room to take out a drive shaft.

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Old 10-18-2011, 10:35 PM
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Okay and to the person above who said If the axle Is 6.5 Inches off the ground, technically the car Is only raised ten Inches If ya have 16.5 Inch Jack stands. Well wouldnt the car technically still be 16.5 Inches off the ground, but really I only gained 10.5 Inches from the cars original height, but technically speaking If the Jack stand can lift 16.5 Inches, than the car will be 16.5 Inches off the ground, not ten Inches right.
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Socom
Just get the 16.5" jack stands, support the rear with those and use the jack to support the trans. Unbolt the 4 bolts holding the crossmember and the one mounting the trans to the crossmember. Simple.
Why do you go through all the trouble of removing the crossmember to remove the mount? That's not necessary.
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:40 PM
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Get the racing jack on sale and jackstands at Harbor Freight and save yourself a bunch of dough -- the quality is fine on these.
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:41 PM
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Is this the correct directions I found this site and printed the stuff are these the correct directions and the way ya would reccomend for my 1994 Chevy Camaro V6 3.4L Car.





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Old 10-18-2011, 10:42 PM
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16.5 is plenty im 6.2 300lb iv have never extended any of my stands more then half way and i fit fine under the car ramps are nice and make it a lot faster to get the car off the ground but if i could only have one of them it would be jack stands you cant remove the wheels when using ramps
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:43 PM
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Idk what camaro 69 was talking about the height thing If ya read my post above you will know what Im talking about but I think technically they would still be 16.5 off the ground am I correct, read the post above.
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by 94ChevyCamaroV6
Okay and to the person above who said If the axle Is 6.5 Inches off the ground, technically the car Is only raised ten Inches If ya have 16.5 Inch Jack stands. Well wouldnt the car technically still be 16.5 Inches off the ground, but really I only gained 10.5 Inches from the cars original height, but technically speaking If the Jack stand can lift 16.5 Inches, than the car will be 16.5 Inches off the ground, not ten Inches right.
Oh, high-tech math, eh? If your axle tubes were 6.5" above the ground, and you had jack stands that were only 6.5" tall, how much would that jack the tires off the ground? 0".
16.5" tall stands would add another 10" to those 6" stands (10 + 6.5 = 16.5). So what's 10" plus 0"? 10" is how much the tires would be off the ground.
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:48 PM
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Oh ya talking about the tires being off the ground I though from measuring the ground to body of the car.
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by 94ChevyCamaroV6
Oh ya talking about the tires being off the ground I though from measuring the ground to body of the car.
That would be the same difference as how much the tires are off the ground, since the rear axle is attached to the body. The only way 16.5" jack stands are going to lift the car 16.5" is if you put them under the tires. But DON'T do that, you'll kill yourself. Or if you had the stands up on blocks the same amount as from the ground to the support point under the car. Again, I wouldn't recommend it.
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 11:04 PM
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Okay well on that note Im not sure how tall the axle Jack point Is so Idk how high the car will be off the ground with 16.5 Jack stands or If It will even be enough room to work,move around and change a transmission mount. Because If the car was actually ten Inches off the ground that probably would be much room to work with Idk.
 


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