05-11-2013, 08:50 PM
Anyone who says that they've bent the dip eyes is either totally hamfisted or incapable.
I've been jacking mine up on them for years, if anything, they're safer if you have a jack with a cup in, the eye sits IN the cup and can't come out.
They're what are used to sling the chassis upside down for its zinc phosphor dip at the factory - they're just not chopped off. If they snap off you've got serious chassis rot around them and if you bend them then you've evidently put a SERIOUS amount of sideways pressure on them - if you're managing to put enough SIDEWAYS pressure on them to bend them then you're doing something SERIOUSLY wrong when jacking up a car - i.e. you're jacking one side up 3 ft...
I've been jacking mine up on them for years, if anything, they're safer if you have a jack with a cup in, the eye sits IN the cup and can't come out.
They're what are used to sling the chassis upside down for its zinc phosphor dip at the factory - they're just not chopped off. If they snap off you've got serious chassis rot around them and if you bend them then you've evidently put a SERIOUS amount of sideways pressure on them - if you're managing to put enough SIDEWAYS pressure on them to bend them then you're doing something SERIOUSLY wrong when jacking up a car - i.e. you're jacking one side up 3 ft...
