@@David-hr1bc yessir

@@a.a.4924 how is it dangerous?

@@kevind_53 getting there slowly but surely! 👌

@RoadRoyals of course, good things takes time 🚀

@@nukestrom5719 yes this would be a great idea to cut time. I unfortunately do not have one.

@@Garfield-l5m you're not wrong lol

@@dennis1562 that is incorrect. That is not how the weight transfer works.

That is how it works. Your mistake. The load is on 1 16in 2x4. The cribbing just raised it higher. The cribbing underneath doesn’t make it stronger. 1ft of 2x4 is rated at 200-300 lbs, and that is on end not flat, which would be weaker. By adding a middle 2x4 in each row, the weight is then transferred to the ground. Your misunderstanding has you playing jenga with your car and or worse, your life.

@@dennis1562 so you're saying, 10 short length of 2x4s reinforced at each end are going to snap simultaneously? A small car, even with a large heavy engine is not going to break these cribs. This car has now been on these for 2 years now. You're overthinking the metrics of what kind of weight all four of these cribs are holding at once.

Screwing together stacked 2x4s is not reinforcing them. You have not added any strength to them. Only 1 2x4 needs to fail, the one unsupported 2x4 under each tire. I am an overthinker. I also did not claim this was better than a jackstand. When you get a chance, post a vid showing how you jacked it up to get it there. I bet that would get a lot of commets too

@@dennis1562 the more comments the better, the more interaction and more views is more money in my pocket. Merry Christmas, thanks for your input! :)

@@dennis1562 same with jack stands. Until you can hover a car in the air, mice will find a way in.

@@SADASVN stock Mazdaspeed 3 wheels

@@johnnyg9248 it's not always the most fun, but it's worth it in the end. Good luck 💪

@@markgarland9000 you're looking way to deep into a reel my guy. Don't let it affect you so much 🤣

@RoadRoyals Well it's just that I've had to work with too many knuckleheads over the years. Clowns that think ' hit it with a bigger hammer' is the way to achieve mastery over a task. You be you!

@@rameshpersaud7131 a block and jack

He used a modified huge boulder & a 3,000 pound rated metal 1x6 to jack the car up.

@@kendalgee5808 😂

I had these made up at a metal shop actually. I just brought them a template of the rough shape of the OEM rocker and then they bent it to what I gave them. I believe these were 18gu!

Yes, this was corrected in a pinned comment by myself years ago after I uploaded the video but it appears it has been removed by KZbin. I will have to add it to the description for clarification.

@@CityWok971 ban them all!!!

Yup..totally agree

@@rtoebak76 not meant for working on wheels or in wheel wells

@@KDlGG exactly!

How the fuck you get anything done? 🤣

Just lay the wheels under the car if it's that much of an issue for you. Either way, if you use stands which have a decent foot print then there's almost zero possibility of it falling, and if t does, you'd have to be doing something pretty stupid to make it happen.

@@splint3048 most jacks aren’t failing because they tip over. They’re failing because the pawl has such a narrow engagement, some only have 1/16 engagement. No thanks, also for my truck wheels yeah absolutely I wouldn’t get crushed but do you really think 8” gap is gonna save you? That’s still crushing any grown man, once your chest gets hit like that you gotta go get medical immediately. I have 8 ton jackstands and leave the jack under it and put my wheels under but like I said on a truck that’s fine, we’re talking cars, you need more failsafes

@@HandMadeRoyalty the perks to tubs is to be able to fit a wider wheel up front, also to provide more room for angle if you're going with an aftermarket kit! This car will have fairly wide wheels front and rear.

@ o ok my car is tubbed in the front when i got it and i was considering going tubed chassis instead. Does wheel tubs add strength??

@@HandMadeRoyalty I'm not sure if it would exactly add strength to the chassis, but depending on how you install them and reinforce the metal could potentially add some rigidity. Stitch welding would be the best bet for easy added strength.

Not always, let’s not forget suspension components with bushings. Needs to be torqued with the vehicle in its resting position, aka not at full droop, most cars with a wheel on the ground you can’t get under to torque something like a lower control arm.

@KDlGG suspension components can be positioned by hand or if working against a spring, use a jack under the control arm. In some cases there are components that would be very difficult to access with the wheel on.

@ with a jack you’re entirely guessing how the arms are gonna be positioned when you have the car on it’s own weight. With the wheel on you know exactly

@KDlGG for example you can raise the lower control arm until the suspension is in correct position or until most of vehicle weight is on the jack. That would be more than adequate, it is not that critical. I retired after 40 years in the business and 15 of those I was a steering, suspension, alignment technician. I've done many classic cars, including two of my own, and three that I still have contact with. All of them are still riding on the same polyurethane control arm bushings I installed 20 or more years ago.

@KDlGG sorry but you're wrong. Maybe it's a difference in experience. For example. Let's say a vehicle exerts 1000 lbs of pressure on the left front spring while resting on the wheel assembly. If you raise the vehicle in the right spot on the lower control arm, it will still exert 1,000 lbs of pressure on the spring. And either way that is the position in which the bushings should be tightened. Also it doesn't have to be + or - .001 tolerance. Some situations you cannot even get to the fasteners with the wheel in place.

@@curtisi4403 this is what most people are doing when working on their vehicle anyway. This is more for long term projects/storage. Although, you can stack jack stands on top of these under your pinch welds or frame and have a more sturdy base but most again don't really need their vehicle to be that high up to work in the wells anyway!

@@RoadRoyals How are you able to jack the car up that high. Very impressed with that. In the past I used to hang up one of my cars and sometimes crawl underneath just to clean it. My floor jack I'm most certain can't get that clearance.

@@curtisi4403 pretty much just in levels. So I'll get it to a certain height with my jack, then put stands under it temporarily. Then use some sort of large block of wood to get it up higher the next level to fit the wheel cribs under. It's definitely kind of sketchy getting up that high, but you just have to go slow and be extra careful. This car is still on these same stands a couple years later and I completely redid the whole underside of the chassis on them.

@@madman9970 a jack and a block of wood

@@michealarwood7488 you're right. Thanks for the tip!

Measure once. Then use the cut piece to measure the rest. Throw out the excess or repurpose it for something else. Now the 1/8 is accounted at the end with the leftover. Also helps to have a marker with the width of the cut. So it's much more understandable where to cut.

@@michaelescobar4111 I am using a different intake plenum so it's not the same install as the oem! But I will have a video coming soon with a bit of the manifold work!

@@RoadRoyals so oh recommend a different intake ?

You gotta take a wrench or socket and pry back on the tensioner pulley bolt it swivels

21 piece per crib 4 cribs = 84 piece 6 piece per 2x4 14 2x4 = 84 piece.

Or just remove that one center piece at the top, and let the tires rest on the two outside pieces.

@@antoniotutt4894 always something to learn in the garage!

@@jb0915 there's a reason why these are used in the trucking industry so much

It's basically a skid. Skids are used in most heavy freight movement for this same reason. Excellent compressive and tensile strength.

@@rickr530 I was going to do this, but figured it was a bit overkill

@@TheREALOC1972 they must be heavy!?

@@RoadRoyals not really

@@seanbutler2291 nobody should be putting a full car that high on shitty harbour freight jackstands for an extended period of time

@@LotsOfPaypa good idea. Although 4x4 would be bulk and heavy, but if you're putting a larger vehicle on them like a truck that would be worth it.

Do you have cardboard 2x4s where you live?

@@kevind_53 😷

@@ChampWinJim you don't, they're meant to stay on!

@@ciangovern ahhh interesting! Good luck with yours, hopefully its not as bad as this one😅

@@davidramey7186 very commonly used idea haha

@@RoadRoyals many bad ideas are commonly done.

@@davidramey7186 it's widely used in the trucking industry. It's been well proven to hold more than enough weight of just this tiny car.

@@fugaz07rs haha there will be more Mazdaspeed content coming, don't worry! 🤍

@RoadRoyals lol nice!!! Glad to hear that!! I'll stay tuned