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Old Sep 15, 2021 | 03:02 PM
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Hi all,

A few weeks ago, we use a friends lift to change my wheels/tires. It was a pain in the *** to get the thing on the lift, the way it is setup on the garage, the arms of the lift were extremely difficult to get under the jacking points, but we somehow did it.

Does anyone have suggestions on to where else we could possibly lift the car up, on a lift. We are doing a build shortly.

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Old Sep 15, 2021 | 03:07 PM
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You can just drive the car on top of some wood blocks/ramps to get the car higher. The jacking points are the ideal spot for lifting.
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Originally Posted by Patfitz9
You can just drive the car on top of some wood blocks/ramps to get the car higher. The jacking points are the ideal spot for lifting.
Yeah thats what I thought too, but i guess the issue is that the posts dont reach the jacking points easily. He's done numerous builds on this lift, just no C7's.

Just trying to figure it all out to make things easier!
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I put some tape markers down for where I need the front wheels to be and if i get close to that everything lines up pretty well.

In this pic you can see the tape, marking the wheel edges and centerline, nothing at all high tech but it helps a lot.

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A friend of mine, who has honesty done a couple of hundred cam, head and engine swaps C5, 6, and 7’s used old crank gears. He doesn’t use frame pucks. He unscrews the square pads on the lift completely. Puts the crank gears on the lift arms with the sprocket side down where the pads screwed in. And lengthens the arms out putting the non-sprocket side where the pucks insert.
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You need to use pucks !


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