[s-cars] Jacking your UrS-car

[Eric Phillips]

Ahhh, thanks - subject changed to aid in future searches...

On 2/10/06, Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> --- Eric Phillips <gcmschemist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Couple of final questions before I do this job:
> >
> > 1.)  Lifting the car in the rear - lift right on the rear diff?  For
> > some reason, it looks really delicate to me.  Even with a thick
> > neoprene pad on the saddle of my jack...
>
> it's not delicate.  i use this as my jacking point all the time.
>
> > 2.)  I'm lifing the front of the car, too.  (I want the whole thing to
> > be level for when I take the thing out of gear to spin the rear
> > wheels.)  Is there a place to lif in the center so that I can put
> > stands under?
>
> under the front subframe, but you may end up crushing it.  i just lift
> from the sides under the factory jacking points.  i place jack stands
> inside the U-shaped skid plates.  after the front is up in the air, i
> jack under the rear differential to get the rear wheels up, and place
> jack stands under the factory jacking points.
>
> -teddy
>
>
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