Hi Mac,

152USD is a bit much for my budget right now.

I saw at Sears a hydraulic automotive jack for 15USD, is that any good and any improvement over the emergency jack? It's cylindrical and the part that connects to the car is round shape, somewhat bigger than a US quarter.

Any point of view on these?

Now I use the jack stands to do maintenance work and not major repairs -- just for coolant flush, manual transmission oil change, O2 sensor replacement, etc.
So mostly front work.

The way I used the jack stands was as follow :

1) level ground such as my garage
2) car off with emergency brake on and engaged in first gear (should I go in reverse maybe?)
3) raise the car with emergency jack
4) placed jack stand under car, lowered car and did other side same way

Is that safe when I have only 2 wheels off the ground?

Thanks Mac.
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'89 244DL M47 158K miles