Putting a car on blocks - Car Talk Community We will be leaving the country for 9 months, and plan to leave a car (actually a pick-up truck) in the garage Should the truck be put “on blocks,” and how do you do this?
Car On Blocks - General Discussion - Car Talk Community Someone please explain why one of our ‘Snowbirds’ would go to all the trouble to jack up a car to get the tires off a concrete driveway, only to place it on four concrete blocks? We live in a retierment community in SW Florida and I’m guessing the owner is from Michigan or Canada
Can you really leave a car for 9 months on blocks? It would be better if someone you know could drive the car once a week for about an hour Putting it on blocks is mainly so that the tires don’t get dry-rotted and start to crack, which wouldn’t be an issue if it can still be driven
Is my working area safe? - Car Talk Community Hi all, I’m fairly new to wrenching and I’m looking for feedback on whether my outdoor setup seems safe I have a gravel driveway area in my backyard where I want to jack my car up and go underneath safely (i e pull a transmission, diff, etc) In my opinion, I’d say this patch of driveway is ‘very flat’, however it’s still not a perfectly poured concrete garage floor, and is also
What is this metal thing hanging under my car? A heat shield is just a piece of sheet metal (stainless) attached above the exhaust to block the high temps from the exhaust It’s not dangerous but you don’t want to lose it either With age and vibration they break away from the screws holding them in place Just have a shop re-attach it again Maybe grab onto it to see how loose it actually is so you don’t lose it on the road The
Supporting A Car - Maintenance Repairs - Car Talk Community Regarding cinder blocks - recent Car and Driver had an article on bleeding brakes - guess what they showed as a way to hold up the car - CINDER BLOCKS! Even worse, they showed them being used in the worst possible way, with the car resting on the center of a block on its end, just about the weakest possible way to use it
Building a lube pit - Maintenance Repairs - Car Talk Community Looking at it again, just a caution on concrete blocks They can easily split Having that solid concrete topping will spread the load but still I think I would fill some of the cores with concrete to add strength You could use solid landscape blocks instead with the poured concrete topping Make it look like a flower bed
Should I be wary of an aluminum engine block? - Car Talk Community The majority of car engines are all aluminum (aluminum heads and block), it’s a very common thing these days The Corolla has had aluminum blocks and heads for the gas petrol models for the past twenty years
Likelihood of Honda Civic cracked engine blocks? - Car Talk Community the blocks develop hairline cracks in the water jacket on the front side of the engine (in Honda’s instance Compared to a generic “cracked block” label, this precise description is, could it be said, comforting Or, are there other locations where cracks have developed on these engines - locations that are impractical to repair?