Jacked up

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

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