Where to buy saddle for floor jack

[slammer111]

Does anyone know where to buy replacement rubble saddles for floor jacks? I bought my jack from Canadian Tire but they don't sell the saddle separately. They had no idea where to go when I called them.

Also, what's the proper way to jack a car (with a non-factory jack) that has a sharp metal edge as the jack point? My friend used this saddle on his Honda S2000 and the car basically sliced the saddle in half when he raised the jack. I suggested a small piece of wood, but wondering if there's a more "proper" way to do this. Thanks.

[narfy]

depending on the jack, u may be able to find a saddle at KMS or princess auto... and as for properly picking up a car, it depends on what the factory jack points look like... if they're a reinforced part of the pinch/rocker seam, then u can use a block of wood carefully, however i've seen blocks of wood fail before... bare metal saddle on the rocker pinch seam works best, but can kink the seam...

[jtrinh]

FIGS JACK JAW Frame Rail Armor

Or you can buy hockey pucks for a dollar and cut em down yourself.

[narfy]

careful when using jack jaws... i've seen one roll when the car was tilted...

i've taken a 2.5" round 1.5" piece of plastic and had a 1/4" groove cut into it... it worked really well... a hockey puck was too big to sit in the bottom of my jack saddle...

[slammer111]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try KMS sometime next week.

So how do shops lift cars that have the sharp edges as jack points without damaging car or hoist? I always assumed all cars had flat jack points (the American and German cars my family owned over the years all did) but what's up with Jap cars?

[fliptuner]

Pinch welds, subframes, rear axle, front crossmember, rear towhook, etc.

[slammer111]

*update*

KMS has 1 available jack pad available. The pad was also 4", but the metal part of the jack has a taper that prevents the KMS pad from seating properly.

Any more ideas?

[fliptuner]

Take a grinder to the stub underneath the saddle and make it fit. If you want to know what kind of taper to match, stuff the hole with some playdoh or something.

[slammer111]

^ Anyone have access to a grinder where I can do this, or know a place I can try to buy another pad? These things are <$10, so rather not buy a $150 tool to fix it lol.

[fliptuner]

lol, grinders are like $20 when they go on sale at CT