Gear box oil

[edh]

Getting a car on 4 axle stands is fine - but you need to be careful to get them nice & solid. Take some time and you should be OK Leave the wheels on, jack still in place & you have a bit more protection.

The jacking point on the sills is the best place to lift the car - you can also use the gearbox, although some people don't like using this as it may damage the mount. Front crossmember is also an option, but usually this is covered by the undertrays.

If you're going to check the gearbox oil level, you might as well change it as well (Often ignored, but should be done every 15K I think). 17mm allen socket for the plugs (remove fill plug first)

 

[supersport]

Luckily my drive is flat at the top and then slopes downwards, so I will have a go at parking it hanging over the slope and then see if I can squeeze my gut underneath.

I wonder if I could train my five year old to do the job[8|]

I would also add that I don't like using the side sill jacking points having had an accident with my 911.

 

[Diver944]

One thing to note is that the jacking point in't on the sill itself, it's on a thick heavy duty piece of chassis just behind the mark on the sill.

If you take the rear wheel off and lower the car onto an axle stand at the back until it's level you can get relatively easy access to the drain and fill holes.

 

[awattam]

Take it to a garage and bung them a fiver to put it on the 4 post ramp for a few minutes when they're quiet. GIves you a good chance to check out everything else under there at the same time with zero chance of death

 

[TTM]

ORIGINAL: ikillcopiers
Be careful with that now, I remember a mate of mine had a 205 rally car who held up his car with 4 axle stands,
up until an unfortunate day last year.

We were swapping heads on some engines (outside of the car, thank christ), and a cat jumped down out of a
window in the shed on to the car.

A cat? Are you sure it wasn't a pair of Lions instead?

I have spent tens of hours under a 944 supported on 4 axle stands and as long as they are located at the right spots the car won't move, even if there is no engine in it.

 

[rcsalmons]

Just use one stand take the rear ns wheel off and lower the car back down to the correct height.

Rich

 

[Alpine]

one option would be to jack up on the jacking point, putting breeze blocks under each wheel onto which the tyre will sit, and do the same on the other side.

 

[ikillcopiers]

ORIGINAL: TTM
A cat? Are you sure it wasn't a pair of Lions instead?

I have spent tens of hours under a 944 supported on 4 axle stands and as long as they are located at the right spots the car won't move, even if there is no engine in it.

Hey, I can only say what I saw.

To be fair I didn't put the car on axle stands, that was my mates "job", so I can't say how good or bad it was done.
(Maybe we can just assume he did a bad job???)

Don't know what else to say?
Maybe the puddy cat had a big dinner that day??

Sufficed to say, I'm taking the experience as a life lesson.

As with welding a petrol tank, mistakes like that only happen once in a lifetime []

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: ikillcopiers
Maybe the puddy cat had a big dinner that day??

Wasn't this cat was it?

She's ours, and obesely fat. Fat enough to make the house wobble when she jumps down from windowsills. No, really.

ikillcopiers - it's believable if you had cats like Lady Millicent walking around.


Oli.

 

[Mike_Pollock]

I m pretty thin and can get under ok but easy way take n/s rear wheel off axel stand to keep level but I do like the idea of the breeze blocks !
Mike

 

[ikillcopiers]

'Twas some kind of tabby, does she have a sister? []

I feel it necessary to reiterate the point that I can't vouch for how
well those stands were placed - my buddy is from a farming background,
over here they ain't known as the kind of guys to take proper safety precautions!