How do you Jack/Support your truck?

[iamlegion]

How are tall lifting your trucks to do work without marring the frame wax? Rubber pads? Are you just using the suspension? Pucks?

 

[Coveman]

I have pucks on my floor jack and stands, and if I mar the wax I give it a shot of fluid film when I’m done.

 

[homesick]

LOL frame wax? Really?

Please tell me that "wax" is just marketing talk for some kind of undercoating for frame protection, and not to make the frame all shiny and pretty.

Is frame ceramic coating next?

joe

 

[Marky Dissod]

LOL frame wax? Really?
Please tell me that "wax" is just marketing talk for some kind of undercoating for frame protection, and not to make the frame all shiny and pretty.
Is frame ceramic coating next?

Find it interesting that, given the premiums paid for Denalis & Escalades,
one of the very few options that GM will never offer anyone at any price
(not even for Cadillacs)
is to prep the frame the same way every other externally facing surface is prepped.
...
So far as GM is concerned, there are already far too many older vehicles still extant.

 

[Blackcar]

I really wouldn't call it wax it a black film and it's a pain to do oil and filter changes without coming out from under truck without it on your arms and clothing.

 

[Marky Dissod]

I really wouldn't call it wax it a black film and it's a pain to do oil and filter changes without coming out from under truck without it on your arms and clothing.

No shame in a well-earned shower, and a small price to pay for owning something that will last long enough to bequeath.

 

[Blackcar]

No shame in a well-earned shower, and a small price to pay for owning something that will last long enough to bequeath.

After 7 years I can do maintenance without a problem with film it isn't self-healing!!

 

[iamlegion]

LOL frame wax? Really?

Please tell me that "wax" is just marketing talk for some kind of undercoating for frame protection, and not to make the frame all shiny and pretty.

Is frame ceramic coating next?

joe

Do you have anything to contribute to the actual question?

 

[Hobert]

I messed mine up messing around with catch can install. Drove me nuts so I bought this. Since I coated the damage with oil draining the catchcan I never used this. I make myself nuts sometimes!

 

[homesick]

Do you have anything to contribute to the actual question?

I think I got closer than you did. Are you really so upset that I'd never heard of frame wax?

joe

 

[blondie70]

Make that 2 ! ha ha

 

[jfoj]

Rhino RampsMAX for the win as long as you are not trying to use them on polished concrete.

My floor jack has a rubber puck in the lift point. Sometimes I will use a block of wood depending on where and how much I am lifting.

 

[djnice]

How are tall lifting your trucks to do work without marring the frame wax? Rubber pads? Are you just using the suspension? Pucks?

The frame wax sticks to rubber pads and comes off on the pads. At least when its fresh and new. Maybe it hardens over time. I saw that there is touch up wax avaialble somewhere.

 

[djnice]

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I messed mine up messing around with catch can install. Drove me nuts so I bought this. Since I coated the damage with oil draining the catchcan I never used this. I make myself nuts sometimes!

Works but its not the same compound as the wax, is it? Should be able to find gm frame wax if one does some searching.

 

[Blackcar]

I have used this Sprayon film where needed.

https://www.zoro.com/sprayon-12-oz-aerosol-can-amber-sc0710000/i/G3546103/?gclid=478ff4c9a86c170befb3933b5bfe36a7&gclsrc=3p.ds&msclkid=478ff4c9a86c170befb3933b5bfe36a7&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ml_all_dyn_main_pmax_core%20skus%20low%20bing&utm_term=2333850869531601&utm_content=power%20transmission

 

[iamlegion]

The frame wax sticks to rubber pads and comes off on the pads. At least when its fresh and new. Maybe it hardens over time. I saw that there is touch up wax avaialble somewhere.

That’s exactly my issue, I’ve tried rubber and wood too but inevitably it’ll wear it off. I have cans of the WoolWax aerosol that’s OK for touching up spots but I’m not trying to make a quick oil change into a big ordeal.

Wish there were some better approved lift points…

 

[djnice]

Maybe have to make our own lift points by cleaning the wax and coating with normal undercoat.

 

[Blackcar]

That’s exactly my issue, I’ve tried rubber and wood too but inevitably it’ll wear it off. I have cans of the WoolWax aerosol that’s OK for touching up spots but I’m not trying to make a quick oil change into a big ordeal.

Wish there were some better approved lift points…

If just doing oil change, I just used two 2x10 and screwed them together as in picture drive vehicle on makes truck high enough to get under and get job done and don't have to use jack.