Jacked up

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

actually, the mount points get vertical load in turns (due to interaction 
with the sway bar).
as far as design, it should work fine, as the mounts are a radial design.
Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Fry" <rocco16@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@verizon.net>; "Jacob Hawes" <gr8hunter1@comcast.net>; 
<Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Jacked up


> 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
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>>
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