VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND NEWER 1946-1948 Bumper jack

I will give it a shot. Bare with me here because I am by no means a puter wizard. It took me almost 4 hours to post my first pic, 5 min. to post the 2nd..

Step 1. You must "host" your pic on a web hosting site, their are many, many of these sites. I don't know if it is allowed to mention any by name, but will take a chance. Yesterday to post the above pics I went to picturetrail.com and opened a account, it is free. Let me say again, you have many of these sites to choose from. It was very much like signing up here, name password, etc.

Step 2. Follow their instructions to download your pics. Fairly simple. Click the browse button, find your pic on your puter, click or double click. Once you see your pic, you are good to go forward. Note: VCCA Chat ask that you keep your pic on the small side, so it doesn't take so long to load. 500 x 500 pixels or less. I resized the ones above to 400 x 300. You probably have software on your puter to do this. This is suggested but not mandatory.

Step 3. Now, take a break, take a few aspirin, drink a few beers, or what ever it take to clear your head. It sounds a lot more complicated than it is, really, well, maybe?

Step 4. When you are ready to post here, open the screen where you type, just like always. Now, go back over to your pic at Ptrail look at the top of the page, you see the tabs, click on the one that shows, image URLs, click it. ( don't panic). You see your pics with 5 lines of text stuff. Take a deep breath! The line you want is in the middle, labeled, FORUM [IMG] Tag: with a bunch of gibbous in a box to the right. Another deep breath! Put you mouse pointer on/in that box with all that writing and click once. The box should turn blue (be highlighted), now RIGHT CLICK you mouse. A list will pop up, click on COPY. (Almost there) Now, go back over to the VCCA post box and place your mouse pointer in the text box and RIGHT CLICK again, that box will pop up again, this time select Paste. You should now see all that stuff copied in you post. you can click on Preview Post to see what it looks like.

If successful toast yourself. If unsuccessful, really toast yourself.
One more time, I am not endorsing Ptrail in any manor!
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!

In my mind the jack pictured is not the jack the factory placed in the trunk. Question is , is it a Chevrolet accessory sold across the parts counter or a common after market.

Sorry, missed one thing. For the 1939 GM unuversal jack it says made in Windsor and above that it says St.Joseph,Michigan. This is in the jack description.
Also states min. height is 10 1/4" amd max. is 30 inches. The Min. height for the 1948 ratchet jack is listed at 7 5/8".

I have David Miners G&D Dec 1999 atricle on the Universal jack #985377. He states the jack is correct (make that sold) from 1938 through 1942. If you do not have your copy I will email the info to you that are intrested...ned your address.

I also have the jack mentioned here and the instructions on the other side of the jack say

TO LOWER INSERT
HANDLE HERE AND
PRESS DOWN LIGHTLY

there is an arrow that points to the mechanism

the color of mine appears to original and is satin black with
natural shaft...you can see the G&D article with a verison of this jack @ www.1940chevrolet.com chef

From Dave M.'s info and my books that a 1938-42 accessory friction jack. Did they make (sell) a friction jack after WWII.?

I sent you some reading material

So lets recap. We now know that jack #985377 is correct for 1938-41 and maybe 42 even though they are 3 different jacks entirely. The above is from the 1929-48 parts book. I wonder if jack #986177 listed as a MECH. BUMPER TYPE is the one included with 46-48 cars when new. Gene said, "Also sold as a replacement part was a "replaceent jack" 609956, which would have been something to put in the trunk of a used car". Since #609656 is not listed as a MECH., simply as, "BUMPER TYPE" if this could be the friction jack pictured above? One more thing that is puzzling, of the 2 bases listed,neither are for any of the jacks listed?

Don't be miss led by the parts book as to which jack is correct. Many of the jacks sold through parts were jacks that didn't come as equipment for any car/year.
If i had a 1941-48 and wanted the correct jack for judging it would be the ratcheting type jack described in the egineering Manual and pictured on the jack instruction card or in the owners manual.
I was hoping that VCCA Son would send you and me a picture of his 1948 production jack....also thought that the toolman would add to the info...he's probably still resting after Hershey.

I have what I believe is a 1948 Chevy jack in my basement. Sorry but it is not for sale. Send me an email and I will shoot you off a picture. It would be interesting to see if it is the same as VCCA Son's bumper jack.
Yes I am still tired from Hershey 2007. Three 10 hour days of walking on blacktop is tiring. But where else can one see so many parts and VCCA friends from all over the country?

Dave