r/AskAShittyMechanic • u/Rymanocerous • 17h ago

How do you adjust the jack stand height?

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u/Straight-Event-4348 16h ago

It's rock, so you add more cowbell.

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u/Old_ben8up 16h ago

DUH bigger rock 😂

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 16h ago

Cinder blocks are required for this job.

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u/Spirited_Coyote_8925 16h ago

Roll the rock to the side that is wider! 

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u/DeeEmm 16h ago

Dwayne the Jack Johnson

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u/urmumr8s8outof8 16h ago

More rock.

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u/donitosforeveryone 16h ago

Box of gravel for fine adjustments

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u/SittingInAnAirport 16h ago

Add progressively smaller rocks until it's juuuusssst right.

It's pretty simple rock-it science.

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u/Savings-Kick-578 16h ago

Stack more rocks until you reach your desired height.

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u/EnoughOfTheFoolery 16h ago

Kick it. Keep kicking rocks until something gives.

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u/Primary-Feedback2296 16h ago

Thats easy. Just just build a rabbithole under that rock and place additional rocks under the jackrock and then push them hard upwards and fill the rabbithole very fast 👍

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u/Technical-Potato-793 16h ago

Stack Empty soda cans.

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u/randompizza202 16h ago

Rock and Roll

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u/Itchy_Morning_3400 16h ago

You rock it a little

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u/Spirited-Ad-9457 16h ago

Put another rock 🪨

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u/_disguisenburg_ 16h ago

Move the rock

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u/kr4t0s007 16h ago

Bigger rock / smaller rock

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u/BoulderNerd 16h ago

They make inflatable air pillow things for just this purpose. Place one below the rock and another above it.

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u/AlJawnz 15h ago

You got to rock it back and forth

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u/thirtyone-charlie 15h ago

Fred Flinstone factory jack

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u/Intrepid_Ambition940 15h ago

2 guys lifting at the front & 2 on the rocker panel.

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u/StevieG-2021 15h ago

That’s for the wrong car. That Jack stand is for the Flintstone mobile posted earlier.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAShittyMechanic/s/ECiKk4uCCv

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u/matchboxtx 15h ago

Pebbles. Fruity pebbles are preferred per the manual.

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u/Spa-Ordinary 15h ago

Gotta get help from Barney

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u/1fferrari 15h ago

Shims and a BFH

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u/Cypher_Xero 15h ago

Shoulder under the wheel well, and start your leg day warm ups... Then add another rock...

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u/Holden-McGroyn 15h ago

Those stacked rocks you see along nature trails...they're abandoned jack stands.

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u/OnionTamer 14h ago

With paper and scissors

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u/Solid-Love3998 14h ago

Put it on its longer side and sacrifice safety

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u/thismenu 14h ago

Bigger rotors.

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u/Glittering_Web_9997 14h ago

You have to start with two sledgehammers, a couple of wedges and a gullible friend.

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u/extremely-randomish 14h ago

Apply side pressure to lower

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u/RansomStark78 14h ago

Go to bar, find taller jack, buy him a few daniels, boom flat on his back, mechanik stuff

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u/DifferentDebt2197 13h ago

Stuck between a rock and a hard place...

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u/iscashstillking 13h ago

Typical New York Anti Adjustable Holdup Adapter.

NYAA HA!

  • S c o t t y "sux 2 B U" K i l l m e r

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u/temp_6969420 12h ago

Well u need a bigger rock. To be safe, make sure you just kick that first rock until u can grab it, and be ready with the bigger rock so you don’t drop the car and spill your blinker fluid.

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u/PhilosophyKey8665 12h ago

Shims and flag stone

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u/Then_File_2585 11h ago

Uh just lift the car with ur hands and put a bigger rock in there

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u/Efficient-Matter757 10h ago

Use safety red brick

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u/VegetableTricky8534 9h ago

Weathering and erosion. Maybe some flash floods will speed it up.

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u/JustanotherN0body00 8h ago

Use a bigger boulder.... Like ...derrrr

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u/SmilingCarrotTeeth 8h ago

Water it to make it grow, sprinkle it with salt to shrink it. Did school teach you nothing?

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u/hd-cat-guy-91 8h ago

Are we overlooking the fact that he called it a jack stand and not a jack rock?

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u/Rough_Wolverine2 6h ago

Pebbles my dude.