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I bought rennstands and ultra low profile floor jacks for this.
I can't say I like the looks of how stable these would be. I like to have the rocking (sideways) force turned into a downward force through a direct force vector (angled tube/bar) rather
than the way these are where you are relying on a piece of angle iron where parts of the contact surface don't have any vertical load applied to keep them from bending.
In addition that angle iron doesn't look very thick to me and there is only 1 static element (at the top) keeping the bases from bending out to the front or back.
I am probably being paranoid....but it has worked for me so far in life and I have never dropped a vehicle with hundreds of lifts onto jack stands of everything up to
fighter jets in the military (also note that aircraft jack stands are just bigger versions of the ESCO design).
The jackpoint type stands look more stable to me....but they don't go very high and are not adjustable.
I guess I am going to continue to use my ESCO ones and put one of the pads towards the outside of the car for rock resistant stability.
I think I’ve lifted the back from the centre of the cross member that those lower control arms connect to. Use a hockey puck or piece of wood between the jack and cross member.
This is exactly how I do it. If I didn't need to go up and down numerous times, I find this is simple, easy, and much quicker than pulling out and setting up a set of quick jacks, while saving storage space and money. Good luck!
The guy put a jack stand under the toe link... in the middle of it no less! That was never going to end well.
Even a control arm itself isn't a great place to put a jack stand since it articulates and is therefore somewhat unstable and also not going to provide maximum height for the lift. Only the mounting point for the control arm or the structural member it connects to such as a subframe should ever be used as a jack point (outside of the normal ones). It's not rocket science, but not everyone has mechanical knowledge/experience.
[QUOTE=jhenson29;19518961]I bought rennstands and ultra low profile floor jacks for this.
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Now that's a great solution, wish I would've seen this post earlier. Oh well. I used a floor jack with a puck to lift the driver's side rear then slid a jack stand under the suspension mounting point that is encircled in blue in an earlier post. As I dropped the car very slowly on to the jack stand the driver's side front wheel started to come down so I put a block of wood under it. Worked like a charm.
i can't remember where I saw this, but i thought a "safe" jacking point to lift the entire rear was in the middle of the cross beam here... Seems like a pretty stiff spot. I've never lifted it from there, so can't speak to how true that is.
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