Ink Ming

Tips for using a floor jack to lift the car? Anybody have any?

sparko

Rubber pads underneath, behind back wheel and forward of rear.

CharlieC

Does anyone have a jack point that allows lifting both front wheels, or both rear wheels at once? On my past cars this has always been mentioned in the service manual.

Ink Ming

I know where they are on the Pathfinder, but that doesn't do my any good.


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evan

a keep jacking until both wheels are off the ground. Makes rotations fairly quick. I do add a jackstand, just in case the jack fails, however! I'm sure someone can tell me why this a a bad idea....

A better way to do this would be to lift a corner, stabilize with a jackstand, then lift another corner, and stabilize it with another jackstand.

John P. (TT 225)

What about using suspension-frame mounts as jacking points?

Lloyd of the Rings

Yep, what he said. I use the 2nd method.

bldn10

This is a serious question that I would like to see a good answer to.
I put my stands in front under the A-arm attachment points and jacked on the jack points. Used rear points too but for support put a heavy wood block under what appears to be a shield for the diff. Does this sound OK? There's a lot of weird stuff under this car so I am somewhat apprehensive.

MichaelTT

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/4128/front_with_jacks.jpg"></center><p>you will need two jacks and two jack stands....this allows you to raise front or back of car evenly and at equal rates. Yes you can use the rubber padded lift sites but just make sure you have wood blocks in the cup of the jack so as to fill cup thus avoiding the edge of the cup from gouging the rust sealant of the car undercarriage. Process is easy...raise both sides of the car up, place jack stands as shown in pic and slightly lower so weight of car is distributed between the jacks and jack stands. Can you use one jack (raise one side, place jack stand, lower and the repeat process on other side) the answer is yes...BUT I am a SAFETY first person and two things that I am a SAFETY nut about is jacking up a car (and in particular working under a jacked up car thus redundant systems 2 jacks 2 jack stands) and spring compressors. Pic show front..for rear same process for front except watch out pinching the emergency brake cabel that runs adjacent to the jack point pad and place the jack stand under the lower trailing control arm about 2" behind the pivot point of the arm (pivot is where arm attaches to car undercarriage). Those who have come to my house (garage) know I have talked about having an effective cost effective lift installed in my garage...nothing fancy but enough for me to work under car (installing an exhaust to changing oil)and didn't cost an arm and a leg...well I think I have found what I have been looking for...talked to company and impressed with stats...5000 lb version is tested to 8,000 lbs etc...so go to link....<ul><li><a href="http://www.kwiklift.com">Garage Lift</a></li></ul>

sparko

Opps! I mean behind the fron and forward of rear.