Jacked up

[rocco16 at sbcglobal.net (Larry Fry)]

Dan gives good advice.
My only concern would be jacking the rear axle as he described; this would 
place the axle pivots under a Z-axis load when they were designed for Y-axis 
loads. It may not hurt, then again, it may.....

Larry
sandiego16v

>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:
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>> '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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