When the finish on the bottom of your ride is as important to you as the one everyone else sees, you need a set of jack pads — like these “Prothane” pads from Summit Racing. They’re softish, red, and look like a three-inch-wide hockey pucks, but they’re actually designed to sit on top of your jack’s steel cradle to avoide metal-on-metal contact between the jack and the car.
Sure, you could sit that Detroit V8 you’re planning to rebuild on a wooden crate, but we can think of a number of great reasons to pick up this engine cradle from Summit Racing instead: 1) Moving a wood crate around the garage with a 500+ pound V8 on it sucks, 2) the cradle gives you open access to the engine’s underside, and 3) you’ll probably spend most of its $40 price tag on the wood crate anyway.
Fender covers are a must if you’re working on a vehicle that you don’t want messed up when you’re finished. They protect the wrench monkey (you) form doing harm to your ride. Also, they make you look like a) you know what you’re doing and b) you give a damn about your paint.
Covers like these are made of thick leather-grain vinyl and are stuffed with a heavy-duty foam pad to guard damage from blunt objects mashed or dropped against the fender. They also keep you from grinding grunge into the paint.
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