Wooden cribbing blocks

Chuckwagon976

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Cribbing blocks look to be more stable than jack stands, and if built correctly adjustable. Need to replace my Tcase and don't want to worry about a weight shift while under the truck while monkeying with it.
 

Chuckwagon976

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All of the homemade cribbing blocks seem to be used on mainly cars that weigh much less than a rover, just wondering if anyone has built any differently that handle the weight well.
 

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Buy a sheet of high-quality 3/4" or 1" plywood and cut it into 8"x8" squares. It will last you a lifetime.
Alternatively, a long 6"- or 8"-wide oak board cut into squares will work for a while, but even oak will eventually warp and then crack under load.
 

Blue

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Buy a sheet of high-quality 3/4" or 1" plywood and cut it into 8"x8" squares. It will last you a lifetime.
Alternatively, a long 6"- or 8"-wide oak board cut into squares will work for a while, but even oak will eventually warp and then crack under load.

I've had the same 1.5" thick X about 6" X 5" piece of plywood on my floor jack for almost 20 years. It's actually two pieces of 3/4" thick screwed together. I use it as a bit of a spacer on top of my jack saddle and it also conforms a bit to whatever surface I'm jacking up such as the rounded underside of a diff housing. It creaks, cracks, and groans every time but it's still going.
 

luckyjoe

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Need to replace my Tcase and don't want to worry about a weight shift while under the truck while monkeying with it.

From memory, to slide out a combined trans/t-case assy, I needed ~24-inches of clearance at the sill. To get this I left the wheels mounted and added about 8 inches of cribbing below them.