This was from when i was takeing 2 of my shocks of my quad shock set up and i didn't have a Hi-Lift jack so i improvised

 

You were lucky my friend. When I had my 85 Ranger, I used a jack just like yours, and being too lazy to put the truck on jack stands, tried removing the frame mounted fuel pump. The truck fell off the jack (it was on the floor, not perched on wood like yours)and almost on me. The only thing that stopped it from getting me was the fact that it hit the carport support beam and stopped coming down. I always use jack stands now.

Jim

 

I remember as a teenager taking out transmissions with the vehicle on cinder blocks and using a skateboard and a scissor jack to get the tranny out and back in. But no way would I get under this monstrosity. I've got a three ton jack, jackstands and tire blocks now.

 

But here's a much less dangerous redneck macguyver for you, it's how I fixed my glovebox when the plastic broke where the latch was. It's stronger than stock now. BTW - I did all six of my shocks without jacking up the truck at all. Why did you have to jack the truck up to do your shocks?

 

I did my shocks on the ground.

 

Yeah you don't need a jack to remove or replace shocks.

I've pulled a couple of Mcgyver's.

I removed the throttle body coolant hoses on my Bronco and capped them off with neoprene caps that Napa SWORE wouldn't leak. They did. I ended up losing a gallon or two of coolant coming from South Lake Tahoe to Placerville on 50. I dug around in my toolbox and "made" a new cap with a bolt, two hose clams, and a short piece of rubber tubing that fit over both the bolt and the coolant nipple on the intake. Worked like a charm!

I was replacing my bumper on my F-150 and used a ratchet on the inside of the frame rail and an impact on the outside when tightening one of the bolts. Well I snugged it down so good that the ratchet wouldn't come off because it was pushed up against the inside top side of the frame rail. I couldn't move it for ANYTHING. I dug out a ratchet strap, a block of 4x4 post, and my floor jack. One end of the strap went around the ratchet, the other went underneath the jack, and the block of wood went between the jack pad and the frame. I got the strap so tight you could hit a high C note on it. I thought the strap would break. A couple more pumps and BAM!

The strap didn't break. The ratchet was free but it I busted it. Locked it up so tight it still won't move to this day. I use it as a hammer now.

A few years ago I was taking an old washer to the dump and it was half full of water. Of course, I was by myself and no one was around to help me. How do you get 300 lbs of washer and dirty water into the back of a pickup bed by yourself?

I used a stepladder as a ramp and a tow strap to pull it. I looped the strap around the bottom of the washer, planted my foot at the top of the "ramp" and heaved on the straps. Surprisingly, it was very easy and basically slid right up the ramp and into the bed of the pickup. Too bad there was no one around to recognize my ingenuity.

 

My breaker bar is a MacGyver, it was just a 3/8 socket wrench that fitted nicely in a piece of pipe (i wouldn't had been able to take the pitman arm off if it weren't because of it). Anyway, i found one at the right price and won't be using the MacGyver much anymore.

 

NAPA parts suck. They're the worst I've gotten from any parts house. Nothing but problems with their crap.

 

i have done a magyver with my bronco. Getting the wheel of my john deere splines is very hard especially if it is rusty and dirty. with the bronco i used a chain and held tension on one side of the wheel and dad was on the other side with a 6ft pipe prying (whobble it to shimmy if off the splines) and it worked and nobody got hurt.



the bead has been seated for probably over 30 years and was no easy task to break loose. here was my method using the bronco. stack some 2 X6 planks on the wall up to the bead and drive onto it with the bronco. several times in 3 different spots and it finally broke loose (separated the whole bead at once)

 

Wow you guys got some good ones.

Ya my truck was high enough to where i wasn't worried about it too much and the truck tires weren't off the ground so it didn't have far to travel.

I figured by jacking the frame up it would extend the shock so i wouldn't have to work as hard to get them off, I don't think it really helped but it also helped me with getting over my tires.

 

I've actually done the very same thing myself. It's amazing how easy it really is...

Eli

 

I had to move a large and heavy double file cabinet down three floors from an office and to my father's house by myself. I didn't have a hand truck or cart or anything. I used one of those cheap folding things that ladies use to tote small packages around on. I was surprised by how well it worked. It certainly was not designed for the weight that I put on it but once I tipped it back and got it to the center of gravity I could do it one handed and got it where it needed to go.

And how many of us here have changed light bulbs by standing on a spinning, rolling office chair LOL!

 

Ha been there done that