Best Race Ramps RR-WC-12 12" Wheel Crib
Product Description
Wheel Cribs are a safe, lightweight alternative to jack stands. They cradle the tire 8", 10", or 12" off the ground (depending on the model), providing unobstructed access underneath the car. Each crib supports 1,500 pounds (3,000 pounds per set) and weighs only 5 pounds. Using 8" or 10" Wheel Cribs in conjunction with 56" or 67" Race Ramps allows your car to be level while raised—useful for changing your oil, for example. Wheel Cribs also can be used for car display and are available in custom sizes.
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Product Feature
- Special construction - won't scratch or mark your floors!
- Lightweight - easy to carry and maneuver
- Works on virtually any surface, including sand!
- Unscootable! Won't slip or slide, no matter the surface
- Wheel Cribs hold tires with diameters from 25 to 30 inches
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
light weight
By funbear
Expensive for blocks for sure.... low cost alternative, buy some 2x12's and cut n nail em, it can support even more weight than these. There is 3 main reasons IMO to buy these. You hate moving, storing, transporting, damn heavy wooden blocks. (as these are feather LIGHT) You want to incorporate the ramps to drive up for simplification and light weight system (does not always gain you all the height you desire). Of course, if you are using them to "show", well, then, it's a no brainer, these are classy looking vs. wood. However, if the weight of wood does not bother you, and your on a budget, u may find the added cost of lifting may make wooden blocks the better alternative, more on this below. Regardless, these are well designed and attractive blocks, with amazing capacity to weight ratio.
For the newbs.... if you want to put the car up on the blocks, and do not want to buy / store the ramps (or the ramps might not work if the car has a low profile), make sure you have a jack with sufficient max lift to slide the blocks under the tires, as you must account for the wheel gravity drop when wheel weight is removed after a certain lift height. So the total height specification of the jack is critical, if you are shopping for a jack as the lifting method....it might take an experiment to know the max. height the jack must achieve to slide these ramps under your tires.
In my case, I needed a pair of scissor jacks ($78) that elevated to 28" peak height, and I could just barely fit these blocks under my tires. My lift point on the frame starts 11" from the ground, 4" of wheel drop leaves about 13" of wheel to ground distance when jack is at full height, just enough to slide the 12" blocks under the tires. In addition, to raise these scissor jacks, you need a very powerful pneumatic air wrench to fully extend the jack.. no muscle, battery operated, or 120V electrical tool will have enough torque. Not a big deal for those into auto repair, but not a common tool for avg. home user. So consider another $150 to $250 for a good air wrench, and of course an air compressor.
A simple floor jack would be ideal, but I could not find any with the required lift height. So it would require a multi step process, lift, block the frame (jack stands), add height under jack (hard with heavy floor jack, would have to convert to bottle jack) re lift, and hopefully you can fit your wheel blocks under, otherwise, it will take a 3rd round of the same...quite cumbersome if you lift often. As always, these projects tend to take on a life of their own...you must reverse engineer the entire system to accomplish your desired task. As always, it's more costly than you first think... :-) The simpler you make the task, it often becomes more costly.
Of course, they sell these wheel ramps (blocks) at 3 different heights, and each car is has different jacking characteristics, so YMMV.... hopefully this will help you think through the process of getting your vehicle high enough, to slide these blocks under your tires. Then you can assess if this product and all the accessories you might require, is within an acceptable budget. (this is where wood blocks can save $$ and allow the purchase of the other accessories to simplify the lifting)
BTW, 12" of car lift (tire to ground distance) is really nice, specially for detailing the car. Sure saves your back from doing the lower areas of the car. I use a low pneum. stool on wheels, now wheel cleaning, waxing lower areas, ... a joy vs bending over or being on your knees constantly. I find the simpler you make the task, the more you will be motivated to implement it. A creeper is a joy to use now that jack stands are not constantly in your way. HTH with your decision.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Better than jack stands
By Christian Esson
Very nice product lightweight and more secure than jack stands, feel safe under car .I order another set so I can do all four wheels.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
very useful, incredibly overpriced!
By M. Baker
I recently received these as a gift from my girlfriend. I've been looking at them for a while, but couldn't see paying so much for them. She knew I wanted them so she went ahead and got them for me. I have a Firebird and a Camaro, and I'm always needing to work under the car on the exhaust, transmission, whatever. I don't like using jack stands at all, they just don't feel safe to me, especially as high as I need to lift the car. These are basically the only other alternative, unless you have a shop and can afford a lift. And don't get me wrong, these do the job and do it well (just make sure you figure out how you'll raise your vehicle high enough to get it on the cribs). My biggest complaint is the price they charge for these, and they can because they're basically the only game in town in this catagory. These things are actually made of.....wait for it.......compressed foam. That's right, FOAM. They can't possibly cost more then 10 bucks each to make, but they charge almost 60....outrageous to me. They don't show much detail in the pictures, or give much detail in the description. I assumed these were made of some kind of super plastic with a hollow inside, so they would stack. They are blocks of solid foam, so altho this probably makes them sturdier, you can not stack them in one another. And these things are huge, so 4 will take up lots of room. So while these things work for their intended use, my gripe is the incredible cost markup. I would never have bought them for myself, thank goodness I have a generous girlfriend!
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