Jacked up

[scourge at cogeco.ca (Scourge)]

I've always used the oil pan up front and the gas tank in the back.
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Haha, ok, I'm joking. Same method as Dan, except I usually use the control
arm bracket for the jack stand(unless I'm pulling the control arms.


-George
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@verizon.net>
To: "Jacob Hawes" <gr8hunter1@comcast.net>; <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: Jacked up


> I almost always jack the front of the car up by putting the jack under the
> body right behind the front inboard end of the a-arm. It'll bend the back
of
> the seam a little the first time, but after that the rest just fits right
in
> the cup of the jack. Solid
> Jack stands on the front can either go under the rear inboard pivot of the
> a-arm or at the little (1.5" dia) cup right behind the front wheel, just
> inboard of the rocker panel seam. Both of these spots seem pretty solid
and
> resistant to bending.
> NEVER lift anything by the chassis stiffener in the middle of the front
> floor! It'll bend every time!
> At the rear I jack up the car by the rear axle beam (sacrileage, I know,
but
> never had a problem!)
> Jack stands can go under the ends of the rear axle cross beam or if you're
> working on that you can put small 2 x 4 blocks on the jack stands and
place
> the blocks right under the jacking point at the rocker panel.
> HTH.
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jacob Hawes" <gr8hunter1@comcast.net>
> To: <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 3:48 AM
> Subject: Jacked up
>
>
> > This is probably a silly question, or it is just a good question that is
> > never asked. How do you jack a unibody car up without damaging either
the
> > body or floorpan specifically. I have already slightly bent (very
> > slightly) the body under the driver side door. I have used 2x4s every
time
> > I jack it up to both distribute the weight and add height to my little
> > jack.
> >
> > --
> > --Jacob Hawes
> > Cars:
> > '78 Lincoln mark V "QE2" nearly abandoned work in progress
> > '80 Scirocco mk1 searching for a name
> > '92 Ford Tempo "the... ford" soon to be replaced by rocco as DD
> > Sharp pointy things:
> > 18" HI Kobra "pillow knife"
> > 17.5" HI Ang Khola Villager "camp axe"
> > ~48" Custom two hander. unnamed
>
>
>
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