Lifting car onto jackstands
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Burning Brakes
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Lifting car onto jackstands
Quick (maybe dumb) question...
What is the easiest way to get the car onto jackstands? If you use the jacking points to jack the car, how do you get the stands under them? Thanks in advance.
What is the easiest way to get the car onto jackstands? If you use the jacking points to jack the car, how do you get the stands under them? Thanks in advance.
Le Mans Master
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From: Los Angeles CA
Originally Posted by C5 ChemE
Quick (maybe dumb) question...
What is the easiest way to get the car onto jackstands? If you use the jacking points to jack the car, how do you get the stands under them? Thanks in advance.
What is the easiest way to get the car onto jackstands? If you use the jacking points to jack the car, how do you get the stands under them? Thanks in advance.
Drive onto boards to raise front wheels.
Jack up front using forward set of front cross members in the center(spanning both).
Place jack stands in correct location under second (rearward) set of front cross members.
Jack up rear at center of rear cross members.
Place jack stands in correct location under rear cross members.
That's it. I do it all the time, it works fine. By the way, I use a rubber mat on top of the jack platform.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 1999
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From: Los Angeles CA
Originally Posted by C5 ChemE
Thanks a lot allanlaw
Hopefully after work today I can get out there and paint some calipers
Hopefully after work today I can get out there and paint some calipers
