The FAQ Url on jacking isn't working. Read every thread from the search on the topic, but none of them ever have pictures. I'm a dumba55, so when all you mechanics start describing (in a paragraph) where you put your jacks and jackstands, it sounds like freakin' arabic to me. I need DA PICS, MAN !!

Check these pics. This is what I did to get the front of the car up today: You're looking under the front end of the car, towards the rear, with the jack placed exactly midway between the front wheels.
Here's where I finally put the jack:


This pic shows with arrows the two locations where the owner's manual says you should place the jack. But these are not in the center -- so if you'd use these, you'd have to jack the car up twice to get two jackstands under the car, once on each side.


Does anyone just place the jack and a piece of wood at position B ? Position B is about 1 foot behind where I put my jack, but it would be dead center between the two locations that the owner's manual says you should use.
Am I ok where I have the jack? Or should I move it rearward to B, or shouldn't I have it in the center at all?

Here's a closeup view of where I like the jack:


Here's a pic of the location where those jack pucks fit, and which I then used for the jackstands, not the jack itself. In this pic, you're looking under the car, underneath the very front of the passenger's door.


So again, lots of questions I have

• Is this a bad location, right in the center? Is there some reason I should jack it up to the side, and so then have to jack it twice?
• is the jack too far forward? should I have placed it further rearward, at position B?
• Apparently the jacking pucks go at the arrow that I showed in the last pic. Is this correct? Do you guys place the jack there? or is that where you put the jackstands, after you've raised the front end with the jack?

I tried a couple different things, but what I finally used, was to raise the entire front end like shown, then put the car on jackstands using those hockey puck type things inserted into the slots on the side of the car.

So I need you guys to tell me if I did it all wrong. Thanks to anyone who can set me straight.

 

That looks good to me. If you want to lift one side or the other you can jack on the side where the jack pad puck goes - then I put a jackstand underneath a frame member.

I think the places identified as "factory jack points" are mainly where a shop with a 2-post lift would adjust the arms of the lift so the pads on the ends are under those points. Then when they lift the car, all four wheels would be hanging down.

Your forward-center jacking position looks perfectly fine. It's under a major frame member that the suspension is hooked to, so it should be plenty strong.

The only question I have is: How the heck do you roll the jack under the air dam to get it under that part of the car???

I'd use your method, but there's no way I can get a jack under the front end to get it under that area!

Bob

 

I drive onto two stacked 2X10 pieces of wood to be able to get my jack under the front air dam.

 

Ah!! Good idea.

Now that I've lowered it, I drive up on one thickness to get under the side where the puck goes, but two sounds better!

Bob

 

Use one about 2 foot long and the next about 1 foot so they are stepped. I screwed them together so they don't shift.

 

Great -- thanks a lot for your responses. Just want to know that I'm not going to hurt the car or have it squish me like a bug.

As listed above, I drove the car up on some 2X4's that I had, to get it high enough to get the jack underneath. But it wasn't easy. And 2x4's are not the best way to do it. I'll need to cut some much larger blocks of wood to drive up ontop of. 2X10 sounds like a good idea. And when jacking the back up, I could NOT get the rear puck areas high enough, so again I had to drive the front wheels up onto 2X4's, then jack the back up. Only then could I get my jack stands under the rear of the car. The Vette really is low.

 

Bugman

You should be providing the answers not asking the questions.
Those pictures are the best I have seen on how to jack.

Thanks

 

Do Rhino Ramps work with the C6?

 

Not in the front. The spoiler just pushes them along in front of you. You can back up on them, though.

 

Any suggestions for ramps that do work on the front? Thanks.

 

I agree!!!!


That is some great pictures you got!

Here my gift to Bugman, CHEAP PUCKS!

 

You should write the book titled "How to Jack Up Your Corvette for Dummies" Nice shots, I believe you answered your own question....

 

Pep Boys has some low profile ramps that work fine.

 

Wow ! thanks a lot. Well, I did start a "web site for idiots":
Bugman's C6 idiot how-to page
where I thought I'd post some very very basic info -- since I'm a beginner, the pics might help someone else. I did the same thing with my motorcycles at bugman.81x.com.If you guys think this jack method is ok, I'll post 'em up. Especially because I had a hard time finding any pictures to tell me how to do it -- pretty much no good pictures. That's why I needed to ask here.

I really really appreciate all the cool guys in here that I'm learning from. Thanks for the help !

I really love 2005ArcticWhite's jacking pucks !!! I think I might have mentioned - I bought some pucks, but their diameter is too large for my jack -- was afraid to jack from them, but they are good points to put the jack stands.

like this:


hope that's correct. Didn't appear to do any damage to the body, supporting it from those points. And later I did the same thing in the rear, to put in my CAGS bypass. Worked out ok.