<![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I am glad all you guys are so strong and can get on on your knees and jack your car or truck up, I use a cane or chair where ever I go some place. This is a life safer for me when I am on the highway and cant get help right away. I use this for my van and a plug in racket to remove my lugnuts and change tires and I am done in a couple of minutes, what a LIFESAVER for me.

steve40

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @daftrok: You mean this: [www.amazon.com]
Or, less costly, this: [en.wikipedia.org]

@i4ni: Actually, I've done this... and with existing tools, so I never considered that this wasn't on the market. Working with emergency services here in the LA area, we learn to use a tougher version of this with a compressor for lifting pieces of buildings, etc for evacuating victims in a disaster. So, ya, "I shoulda thought of that!"

hnkelley

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> These work great, especially in off roading situations where the ground is not so solid or level for a small-based emergency jack. We used one of these for a guy that blew a tire in the snow way off the road. Worked like a charm.

scotth0

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> If you have an electric vehicle then your're screwed.

twilight-arc

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> This next-generation lifting tool is pretty coll and worths replacing it with the standard jack.

Minas

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> does anyone know if this device has existed prior to this post being made about it?

a lot of us are very curious because it really really really matters if something existed prior to Gizmodo posting about it.

x23

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Git Em SteveDave:
Thus proving my OTHER pet theory: Michelle Trachtenburg is a HOTTIE!!


Candyman

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Curves:
Once again proving my pet theory: Never ever trust a woman. :-)


Candyman

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @dfwguy:
I googled Bull Bag, and found many people using them; off-roaders especially. Seems it works a bit better in certain conditions, like on a sandy surface, than regular jacks.


Candyman

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @NewPerfection:

Or crawling under a car held up by ANY jack for that matter. That's what lifts are for.

Candyman

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I remember they started selling these in Zimbabwe in 1982, I remember because I was there and they were promoting it in front of supermarkets and fairs etc. The funny thing is the ones from the early 80's had the exact same bright orange colour as shown sbove so I dont know why it is a new product. I can sense a lawsuit coming up on yet another senseless issue.

rahatkhan

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Okay, so I can think of a lot of flaws with this concept.

"Keep it away from hot things." Like a car exhaust. Oshi-!
It's either a balloon that has to be drained of its contents (including carbon monoxide) or it's constantly venting those toxins while you're working. If I need to elaborate, get your head checked.
What happens if you put a potato up a car's exhaust? Same concept, lovely orange bag.
Working from the above, I'm sure that works wonders on the gaskets and seals all the way from the head gasket down through the exhaust.

But zomg, you don't have to know how to TURN THE CRANK ON A JACK!

The laziness and incompitence of people makes me angry. Hulk angry. Smash.




linoth

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I drive a truck. Keep a 3 ton floor jack in the back and a t-bar.

First thing you do when you buy a car. Throw away that cheap, doesn't fit quite right, lug nut wrench and go spend $20 on a T-bar. Best $20 you'll ever spend on your car/truck wheels.
Almost as fast as a air wrench and can get tighter/and loosen than many home garage air setups.

thebear91

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @scarbrtj: Wow. I didnt know I had a blog. I should read it, huh?
Hot/not proof is so subjective; it depends on opinions only. What you find hot/others may not. I would'nt want to deny anyone their pre-existing fantasies, and whatever those fantasies are, they are probably better than the real deal anyway, so the world may never know.


Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Doesn't work with a hybrid when the engine doesn't run when the car is parked.

Oh, I see, you put it in drive and jack the front wheels off the ground first.

Brilliant.

Jones Foyer

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I would not change my tire with the car running . . . . ugh.

maztec

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I could see the beltway sniper having some fun with these...

buckeye2012

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> really old, i remember using this over 5 years ago in the desert when our car got stuck in the sand.

kush

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Son get away from the shift lever... nooooo!

roadworm

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> you can also kill yourself when you're done

TehBoj

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Is this compatible with whistles that go Woo Woooo?


+ Watch video



LUV2CattleCall

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Is this compatible with whistles that go Woo Woooo?

LUV2CattleCall

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @strider_mt2k: The chance of you dying from the carbon monoxide contained in this bag when you release it are very slim.

Unless you get in the back of the SUV with the bag and then release the exhaust.

The concentration is not going to be enough when you're standing outside with it and releasing the exhaust into the air like you're supposed to do.

smcallah

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I swear I've seen an old television outtake where this device was demonstrated. Unlike a jack the device delivered part of the load on the car frame and ended up causing a dent on one of the panels!

dascoyne

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @sumocat: I did not imply that the bag does everything for you, just that it's *much* easier than a scissor jack.

It took 1m 20s to inflate in the video and 20s to deflate. The only way a scissor jack comes close to that is if you used a drill with a special attachment to turn the jack screw.

sr105

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Car Whoopi cushion? At least you'll be laughing when you die of getting crushed by a popped bag.

ryangee

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Brilliant, unless you drive a Prius.

ekasbury

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Thud: my thoughts exactly

mr_schticker

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @B1663R: Those woke me up, now I can finish my day.

riqgeez

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> ok i found a few... ready?

My uncle has always bragged about how lucky his car is. That is, until he had to push his luck one day.

or this one...

My carpooling buddy Ronnie always gets sick as we're driving through tunnels. He went to the doctor and it turns out he has Carpool Tunnel Syndrome.

B1663R

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @HOSEHEAD@HoseHead: The cake is a Lie!

RizlaD

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @nutbastard: sorry, it all seemed a little flat and besides i'm a little tired... that's it folks i'm outta car puns

wait, i think i got something on power windows... nope nuthin'

hold on lemme google car jokes...

B1663R

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Curves: someday you're going to have to provide pictorial proof how hot-or-not you are... at least that's what many have been saying in the Curves blogs and/or fansites.

And... didn't Prince Charles say he wanted to be Camilla's tampon once upon a time? I'm sorry but that's just bloody distasteful.

scarbrtj

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @B1663R:

I ought to combust your lip open for blowing so much hot air. Strider really doesn't resonate with you? Then keep yourself muffled, everyone else thinks he's a gas.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @B1663R:

some like it dry. and the rest don't have a sense of humor. puns > all else.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @B1663R: I sense a little hatorade running through your blood. But really, seems as though a lot of people have no idea what tire changing is about. This may not be practical for any and all cars but at least there is an effort for some everyday use.

riqgeez

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> this thing looks like it could hold a few bong hits.....

axiomatic

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @strider_mt2k: and somehow you achieved the prestigious rank of "star commenter" for your insight and wisdom.

Comedy? not so much.

B1663R

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @sr105: And what do those people do with the car once it's in the air? I've changed flat tires on three different cars using scissor jacks. Using a scissor jack is easy. Cracking the lug nuts, changing the wheel, and re-tightening the lug nuts is when the actual work happens. If someone doesn't know how to use a scissor jack, I don't want them changing a wheel on my car. Probably leave a lug nut loose or put the under-sized spare on the front.

sumocat

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> What's the name of the guy who uses this, but has to hold the car up with his legs because it deflated? - Jack.

What do you call the guy who uses this as it deflates? - Exhausted, After that he's just tired.

Perfect for park rangers and first responders (like SAR) who don't always have all the gear the need to move a car, tree, or big fat object.

DeadWriter

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Slam Specialties had a much nicer solution in the late 90s with their "Air Jack." High strngth rubber bellows between polycarbonate end plates and it was packaged with a compressor. A smaller package, and in my opinion a much more reliable design.

rton20s

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I am in the automotive/technical industry, and I can see this gadget causing at least one problem. I believe that a "service engine soon" or "MIL" lamp may illuminate if this thing is used on late-model vehicles. Due to higher emissions standards, the vehicle's electronic engine control system monitors many aspects of the exhaust system. I believe that this may cause a 'DPFE' code to set. The DPFE (delta pressure feedback EGR) sensor monitors your exhaust gas recirculation valve, which is an integral part of the emission system. In the past, I've seen these sensors melt due to restricted exhaust flow. I think I'll be sticking to my regular jack...

OneEyedJack

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Most cars I've seen recently have a scissor jack. I challenge anyone here to lift a car 2-3 feet off of the ground (like in the video above) using a scissor jack and then bring it back down in 3 minutes. Most people could operate this bag, look how popular air-beds are. Most people, sadly, cannot operate a scissor jack without a lot of head scratching.

sr105

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @daftrok: It has been done.

Inepsa

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Adam are you having an acid based flashback to the 70s? (Not sure that is possible given your age?) This was in the JC Whitney catalog back then as a standard stock item...

Seem like you could re-engineer it for the 90s and turn it into some sort of Carbon sequestering device - you just got to figure out where to empty the thing and you are golden!

sfokevin

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Have they got one for starting a car when my wife forgets to get out of the stinking house and drive it for a solid week?

Guy-Fawkes

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> You guys are just jealous of "douchebags". Face it, they were invented for ONE purpose, a purpose most of you guys strive for all your lives and fail.
You want to be reincarnated as one, you KNOW you do.


Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I wonder why the term "douchebag" is becoming so popular again. We used that term when I was in grade school. Then it seemed to have, all but vanished, from the English vernacular. Replaced by such words or phrases as "asshat" and "assclown" I thought we had all but forgotten "douche", "douchebag" and all other "douche" prefixed words.

Is there a douche coalition that I am unaware of? What is the cause of this "return of the douche?"

Rabid Penguin

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Curves: I'm not sure the extra $10 qualifies as "getting ripped". As for flats, the last two I had were actually in my driveway, and I actually made AAA come out for one of them (didn't feel like getting brake dust on my hands). Besides, I'd have to drive about 1000 miles before I got that far away from civilization.

@Git Em SteveDave: AT&T over here. I hated Verizon.

Also, get a nice discount on car insurance through AAA. Probably their best asset, and one they should advertise more.

Drew Draws nothing of merit

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]>

I came across this just now and had to include it...
[soulassassins.com]

BigDanInTX

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @OMG! Ponies!:
I was thinking about that, but I couldn't decide how many G's to put in "douchebaggery".
And I never thought of you as a douchebag. Definitely a jackass, but never a douchebage.

blank

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @OMG! Ponies!: It's the high-end ANALyses of other peoples' posts that always entertain me the most. ;-]

BigDanInTX

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> If you fail to off yourself between your car and the ground, you can put the slowly leaking carbon monoxide filled ball on the back seat and start driving. If that also fails you can use the traditional hose trough a window method.

Why cant they just sell a tiny air compressor with the ball. It wouldn't cost much more than a long pressure proof hose and connectors. With a compressor you could also check and correct tire pressures while you are at it.

Bloodboiler

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> You make an excellent point. I'd hate to see "Douchebag" lose its torque. Look at the poor Brits--they had a good thing going with "c~nt," but then the slang equivalent of mission creep set in, and now it basically just means "dude."

ChromiumSwitch

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Lorne: Grammar nazi warning - Actually, like all words used to describe general stupidity, the proper suffix is "ery". As in "douchebaggery".

And yes, I, a self-professed jackass (who partakes in jackassery) and douchebag, am fully aware of the irony of correcting another's use of the word "douchebag" and its derivative forms, thus rendering me a douchebag.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Curves:

+ Watch video

Good thing you weren't in Europe.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @nutbastard:
I only mention it because "douchebag" is one of my favorite insults, and I'm worried that it's losing its meaning from overuse. Worse still, it's in danger of being co-opted by douchebags themselves! (For example, after I post this, several douchebags are likely going to accuse me of being a douchebag.)
Douchebagdom definitely implies worthlessness, but worthlessness doesn't necessarily equate to douchebagdom. True acts of douchery involve an element of hypocrisy and an unearned sense of moral superiority that's utterly at odds with one's obnoxious behaviour.

blank

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Umm, so putting pressure (thinking back to the good oul days of ramming bananas up teachers' cars' exhaust pipe) on the exhaust system is now OK?

cgarvey

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @daftrok: They do in fact have 12V impact guns you can use on the road. Most connect right to the battery terminals with clips, and some even have a cig/lighter adapter.

As for the exhaust jack, this is nothing new. It's been around for at least 20 years that I know of, maybe even longer.

DucatiGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @HoseHead: EXACTLY! That was my point. You should NEVER be under a vehicle when changing a tire. I wouldn't trust a standard scissor jack any more than I would a balloon like this. I will not go under a vehicle unless there are two jack stands preventing it from falling on me. This is actually a pretty good idea. Trying to jack up a car that's on the shoulder with a standard jack is almost impossible, because the jack just sinks in to the soft ground.

NewPerfection

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Git Em SteveDave: The point was, no bars - zip cell service (top of a mountain in BFE). So I swtiched to "Womans Plan A". I was wearing shorts and a tight t shirt and stood looking all helpless and stuff. In about 5 minutes I was on my merry way again. (I know how to change a tire, I just lacked the torque to break the lugs loose.)

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @dwarfgoat: Glad to know I'm not the only one reading this that recognizes the usefulness of the item.

And to all you who are worried about burning yourselves, maybe gadgets like these aren't for you, in fact maybe changing the tire on your car by yourselves isn't for you.

jeepingeek

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> These things have been around for 30 years, so have 12v impact wrenches for lug nuts.

Geez, you guys should read an auto accessories catalog once in a while.

outlanderssc

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @drewdraws2: @Curves: If you have a Verizon Phone, check to see if they tacked on roadside assistance to your bill/plan. I have it on mine, and use it when I used to lock both sets of keys in the car. I now keep a spare door key ziptied securely to the frame of my auto

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> what about burning your hands on the exhaust ?

ratheen

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @jeepingeek: Exactly!

Also, when one doesn't perform regular maintenance on one's Hi-Lift (*cough* *cough*), and lets it sit bolted to the roof-basket for over a year without oiling it, so that when one tears up a tire offroad, and his Hi-lift is all frozen and siezed up? Yeah, then one quite is happy to see a buddy breaking out "the orange bag of shame!"

dwarfgoat

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Why does this look like it was designed by Wyle E. Coyote, Super Genius?

dufus

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> apparently there aren't many people into four-wheeling on this site. These jacks are made for off road use, instead if using the classic Hi-Lift jack. The inflate much higher than a standard jack will go. Anyone with a lifted vehicle can pretty much toss the oem jack out because enven when fully extended it doesn't reach the bottom of the vehicle.

jeepingeek

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> The 80's called. It wants its story back.

James

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> So should this be classed as a non enviromental gadget?

bngi

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @drewdraws2: I get AAA for $49 a year, so youre getting ripped. The only issue with having AAAt is that when you get a flat, you are usually in the middle of NO WHERE. My last flat was 300 miles from home, no cell signal on the most deserted stretch of interstate I ever saw. Not much chance of getting AAA to save you if you cant reach them.

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Actually, these work quite well. A couple of the guys in my 4x4 club have them, and we put them to good use on nearly every outing.

Where we go, a standard bottle jack is useless (not to mention our rigs are far too tall for the stock jack), and often times the terrain is too loose, soft, etc. for the standard farm-lift type jack we generally use.

These bags are made of a really durable material (haven't seen one pop yet, even when used in a boulder garden of fairly sharp rocks), and have a check valve to prevent sudden deflation were the engine to stop or the hose fall off. That same clever valving allows the bag to inflate without supplying too much back pressure, so the engine keeps running fine.

So far, I've been really impressed with their uses in off-road situations. However, having said that, I also agree that on pavement the standard bottle or scissor jack is faster and less hassle (unless, like I said, your truck is too tall for the stock jack).

dwarfgoat

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> This is actually a great breakthrough in suicide technology. You used to have to sit in your car to kill yourself with the car's exhaust. But that always had it's drawbacks... what if nothing was on the radio. Sitting in a car and waiting to die isn't as comfortable as it sounds.

Now I can fill the exhaust balloon and kill myself where and when I want. With the face mask attachment, I can die in the comfort of my own home while watching my favorite TV show.

Rabid Penguin

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I had a dream about a muffler once and I woke up exhausted.

I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @nutbastard: Or perhaps they are a parent with two preschoolers who can't be safely left in the car while the vehicle is jacked and who can't be left to wander the side of the road? This gadget won't help that situation, but people who call tow trucks for a flat are not always lazy. Don't be so judgmental, even if this is the internet.

afw

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Most modern vehicles have jack points. How does this balloon insure you are correctly lifting the vehicle to prevent damage to the vehicle itself?

joeyjoeyjoey

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Kind of agree with hosehead here. I wouldn't work under my car w/out jackstands, but no one I know carries jack stands for an emergency tire change whether you have a balloon or a scissor jack holding up your car.

And, it does take very little air pressure to lift something if you have a large enough surface area under pressure. I haven't done the calculations, but you shouldn't have an issue lifting a car.

None of which goes to the core point that this thing seems to be a dumb way of saving on the relative minimal amount of labor to jack up your car, especially in view of the other labor involved.

Quasi-related gripe: anyone ever try an emergency tire change using one of those small angled tire irons when the service tech has put your lug nuts on with an impact wrench? I highly recommend investing in an old school X shaped tire iron and making sure your lug nuts are torqued only to spec.

Thud

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> What if you have an older exhaust system. You'd need a fair bit of pressure to lift the vehicle. Imagine a weak point in your exhaust system(ie: where the muffler attaches) blowing out.

GregH

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @N@tedog: I've had a car fall while changing the tire. Frigging asphalt crumbled under the jack. The car didn't touch me. If you're under the car while changing the tire, you're doing it wrong! I've lifted aircraft with air bags. This is no different, other than the gas filling the bag. Also, if any of you live in a large city and walked on the sidewalk down town at rush hour, you've probably inhaled more exhaust than this will give you.

Barry99705

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> i have seen this in a lot of 4wheel magazines and the like. seems to me a good alternative for an offroad vehicle, seeing as being in a giant mud pit with a normal jack would not work. using this thing on the side of the highway however? dumb.

deucailion

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Make NASCAR use these on pit stops. Only instead of exhaust, fill them with the hot air the driver is spewing.

whoareyou

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> What if your muffler has a hole in it?

Kharnellius

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I forgot all about this gadget. It is an old idea, as previously noted. I'd get one, but the Mercedes has a slot for the good old crank jack. My car doesn't see any sand, or mud action, but this would be great for any that do.

P.S. Don't forget kidZ, to break the tension on the lug nuts before lifting and check the pressure on your tires regularly. (including the spare!)

vagrant

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @SecretAsianMan:
Good point. I think there would only be enough back pressure if each exhaust pipe came from individual cylinder banks or exhaust headers. If the exhaust came from one downpipe, connected sides or crossed anywhere, you'd be SOL. A product showing some good ingenuity but with some substantial shortcomings.


N@tedog

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @nutbastard: I'd say yes. There are a lot of people who do not know how to use a jack properly and end up hurting themselves or causing damage to the car because they don't know where to place it. The advantage of this system is that it seems a lot easier to use and a lot less likely to be placed wrong. Especially on uneven ground, putting a jack in the wrong place can be a really dangerous thing.

I'd get one of these if it didn't take up quite so much space. Especially for off road use and for times when my wife might encounter a flat on her own, I'd feel a lot more comfortable having her use this than a standard jack.

@dmaggio12: good point!

weatherman

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I would also like to make a "death by Carbon Monoxide poisoning" reference at this time.

Thank you.

(I'll keep my poisoning old-fashioned and blindness-inducing: By SOAP)

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @SecretAsianMan: Check the pic. That Beemer SUV has dual exhausts.

alexlr

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @mcsurfer3393: Yeah, I would NOT trust this thing with my life. Maybe use it to put some axle stands underneath.

N@tedog

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> For $60/year I call AAA and make them my tire-changing bitch.

Drew Draws nothing of merit

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I'm guessing this wouldnt be too useful for hybrid cars either. Which is a shame considering they usually ride so low to the ground its hard to find a jack that will fit under them.

dmaggio12

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> o

HoseHead

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> you can really tell who has changed a tire and who hasn't.
"LET ME PUT MY HANDS UNDER AN SUV HELD UP BY A BALLOON"
"and you want me under a car held up by a balloon?"
"and you find yourself with 3 tons of plastic and steel lying on top of you."
who the fuck gets UNDER a car to change a tire??? We're not talking about an oil change here folks!!!

and second thing, didn't you people see the guy pull the tube off of the exhaust??? the bag didn't deflate!! so yes, he could have turned off the engine. he let out the air manually at the end of the video.

i've seen a few retarded comments now and again but this lot really takes the freakin' cake!

HoseHead

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Brilliant!

FinalValgas

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> What if you have dual exhausts?

SecretAsianMan

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Just a quick question. How many people hear carry around a large flat piece of wood/stone in their trunk for when they try to jack their car on the soft shoulder of the road or on any ground that is not hard. It's so much fun to watch your jack sink/propel itself into the mud. I can honestly say since I keep one in my trunk, I have helped at least two drivers who couldn't jack up normally.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> There is absolutely no way I would even think about using that. I usually have a floor jack and enough tools to strip my car down in the trunk at all times anyway.

BurstAneurysm

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Thud: I was also wondering how that back pressure would impact the engine. It's meant to allow for free-flow of the exaust, not build up what is most likely around 40-50 psi(?).

I don't think it's healthy to 1., kneel down at an exhaust pipe to attach the hose in the first place or 2., be around the release valve when you open it. Not to mention the possibility of burning yourself on the exhaust pipe as you're putting it on.

I'll stick with the $60 easy-lift jack I got from Wal-Mart for my Expedition. It's very similar to the ones the tow truck guys carry with them to change tires (with the long arm). Easy-up...easy-down. =-]

BigDanInTX

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Inflattable air bags have been used to stablize and lift vehicles in rescue/emergency situations for a long time.

@Thud: I agree. Also, I'm wondering how there is going to be enough pressure to lift the car from only the exhaust? And, who in their right mind would leave their car running while changing a tire?

Geisrud

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Lorne:
The two qualities are hardly mutually exclusive...

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @tp74: And it was around in the '60s too. Next thing you know cars will be touting 'hill holding" clutches. No wait, Studebaker did that in the 50's and Subaru in the 80's. Wait how about folding hard tops...Nope already done. Maybe there is money to be made in recycling old bleeding edge tech ideas with new materials and applications.....

dfwguy

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @Goodnightbabytron:
not nearly enough volume is being pumped - a leaf blower pushes more air and can only be made to lift about 200lbs.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @nutbastard:
Now now. People who call a tow truck when their car won't start aren't douchebags.
They're worthless, but they're not douchebags.

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]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> AAA works well too.

GOKOR

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> what about dual exhaust cars? Shove a banana up the other tail pipe.

habib15

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> So would you carry this around in addition to the jack provided with the car? Or are you supposed to throw your old jack away?
And what's so bad about a regular jack?
If you're not strong enough or mechanically adept enough to use a regular jack, you'd probably do better to invest in a cellphone and an auto club membership than to monkey around with this nonsense.

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]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Something about filling a bag up with tail pipe nasty, isn't the best of ideas.

Tayng

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> ON THE OTHER HAND, is it really so friggin hard to use a regular jack? it takes 60 seconds to jack up a car. And if you're too lazy to do the jacking, what are the odds that you actually know how to change a tire?

On a related tangent, anyone who doesn't know how to change a tire is a moron. Same with the douchebags who call a tow truck because their car won't start... because their battery terminals are dirty, and they didn't even check.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I wonder if you could use the exhaust pressure to instead inflate a durable skirt, turning your car into a hover craft. A hover craft with no steering and no locomotion...but still.

Goodnightbabytron

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> In the time it took him to unpack, unroll and install that POS I'd have the jack out, and the car up on it.

What a stupid product.

scoobydoo

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> This is nothing new. made for truck that get flats in the sand.

j4sk868

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Looks like the new nitrous balloons for hippie concerts.

plankbr

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Wait, do you all really lie underneath the car to change a tire? Have I been doing it wrong?

ChromiumSwitch

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @vividaurora, Kaiser-Machead:

a check valve would keep it from deflating if you lost exhaust pressure.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @mcsurfer3393: I second this comment! I mean really WTF

fusedinertia

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> This is identical to the "Bull Bag" sold in 1978 or thereabouts.

I assumed they were no longer available because too many people died using them.

Matthew77

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I say call a tow truck and save yourself the embarrassment of driving around with that silly looking spare.

William

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I'm not a car guy, but wouldn't back pressure on the exhaust stall the car out?

Thud

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> so it looks like i can get two of them, stack 'em and flip cars over in a few seconds.

now that is practical use right there!

B1663R

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> This has WONDERFUL Prank applications! Just slip it under someones car, hook it up.... they start the car and you can be sure the WTF look on their face is going to be priceless.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Could it also float the car if you accidentally drive into a lake?

GeekyNerdGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Why do I keep thinking about Kramerica Industries' oil bladder when I see that thing?

Dave J.

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> That's fine and dandy and whatnot until that hose pops off the exhaust tip and you find yourself with 3 tons of plastic and steel lying on top of you.

No thanks. I'll stick with the old school crank jobs.

vividaurora

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I wouldn't think that this was very safe... or good for your car either. There's got to be some pressure buildup in your exhaust system... possible blowback into the engine and crap. Of course, I could just be talking out my ass.

Ashe

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> well I would hope that you wouldn't be crawling under the vehicle to change a tire...

NewPerfection

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> I don't even trust regular jacks, and you want me under a car held up by a balloon?

Not happening.

bpatten

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> @mcsurfer3393: Especially if your car suddenly breaks down or stalls and the balloon goes flat :P

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> So can I assume that the car wouldn't need to be in anything more than an idle to keep the balloon firm enough to lift it?

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> 00:44:52 "Ok.. I finally got the flat tire out. Now hand me the spare tire... What do you mean 'what spare tire'? Quit messing around! I only have a........"

ripfire

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> You are supposed to loosen the bolts 1/4 of the way while the car is on the ground. After you lift the car THEN you unscrew the bolts. And vice versa. Tighten the bolt when the car is on the ground.

If you guys are trying to take of the bolts from the start while the car is in the air then good luck.

DoubleDs

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> glad to see this one has been recycled again, i was always hopin it would be re-done with modern materials

just keep it away from hot stuff

and if you fail at chancing your tire, you can always redirect the nasty gas into the cabin to atone for your lack of skills
double duty, baby!!!!

godwhacker

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Uh....

I remember seeing this on "That's Incredible" back in the 80s. You know Fra Tarkinton, John Davidson and Kathy Lee Crosby?

tp74

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> YEEEA... LET ME PUT MY HANDS UNDER AN SUV HELD UP BY A BALLOON. BRILLIANT.

mcsurfer3393

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> Now all they need is a drill that connects to your cigarette lighter. I swear there are times when I am literally jumping on that damn bar to try to loosen those bolts.

daftrok

]]> <![CDATA[Exhaust Air Jack Lifts Your Car with a Toxic Balloon]]> This is one of those "I should have thought of it" gadgets.

i4ni

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