I recently visited a salvage operation that handles all metal from near by army base--they had TONS of tools and fine stuff like new all SCRAPPED--so they can buy new stuff with the budget but anyway--They had a pile of first quality USA made jack stands as big as a garage--$10 a whack I filled the pick up
When I asked he said see the "cert" info on them--I looked and it seems they have been recertified for the weight --each one TESTED and re-certed every year --like they were going to go bad--well they do--so they were all scrapped--
I am guessing the tax payer spent a fortune buying them--then paid every year to have them re certed--then they scrapped them anyway--the best cared for jack stands in the world went bad so.......you want to go into the stand business?? Sell them to the ARMY You will be rich beyond your wildest dreams--To Hell with the public

I made up a set much like Andy's about 8
years ago when I built my Rampage.. they
worked great

Better have your rear splines dead nuts if you have a spool in the rear..

a way around that would be to drill the axle bolt holes oversize, then use flange nuts with large, grade 8 washers to attach the stands to the axles. this would not affect strength of the stands, nor the attaching point strength.

Wow Good point!

Could you pull the axle and have enough adjustment with the splines?
Matt

I would drill a couple of holes and add bolts or something to put tools about mid height so alignment home made tools , like 24 inch 1/2 inch square rods for alignment and levels for caster and camber.
I drape two tape measures over the rods at 24 inch apart for doing toe in.

I like that idea a lot too!

I would be interested. Any chance you do a dual pattern. 5x4.5 and 5x5 patterns. Any chance you could throw in a set of your billet big block valve covers too. I'm joking. But yeah I'm interested in a set of those stands.

are the valve covers available? i looked on your sight a week or so ago to see what a price for a set would be.

No I don't think I'll sell billet valve covers. They would cost around $800 per pair and I don't think there are many Mopar guys who are will to pay that much for valve covers. If someone really wants a pair shoot me a PM and we'll go from there. If I had a handful of solid orders then I'd run a batch of them but otherwise I'm not going to build them for anyone other than my self. I have them on 3 of my engines now and they are great.

Yes, I think the next batch of hub stands will have multiple bolt patterns. 4, 4.5, 5 and maybe even 5.5. If it fits why not. I'll also add holes for a caster mounting bar as well as a couple of holes to mount a bar for measuring toe in. All of that seems easy to do. I'll cut a bunch of weight out also to reduce shipping cost.

The nascar example only shows two lugnuts. I dont think you need to build it for the full lug count

Shear off the upper lug half of the bracket, and use it upside down on the lower lugnuts.

You would only need to oversize the lower holes to allow for spool setups.

(Hope this makes sense)

Andy, were you the person building the "hand crank" engine stand a few years ago?? I saw it at the Portland swap meet and it was really nice.

Hand crank rotated the engine.... I believe they were a bit spendy and did not sell well... ???

If not you, have you ever seen one or know of them??

http://myliftstand.com/

I want a pair of these... would make it really nice working under the car or r/r the trans.