Lifting car

[Hilux]

Sorry chaps/chapesses,

I know this has been raised [] before but I really need to feel that I can work on my car safely.

Its a lowered turbo so the side skirts prevent all but the shortest trolley jack getting under. (I have to remove the wheels on mine []

Once under the centre it lifts the car fine

1) where can I get a rubber pad for the jack?
2) when its up there its one sided, you all state that you use axle stands BUT how can you use them when the car is at 30 degrees??
3) I have seen all sorts of posts as to where to support the car BUT ordinary `vee` cradle axle stands are too dodgy in my book to use as suggested. What type of stands do you all use and I would appreciate a definite statement as to where is safe and correct (And alternatives, if any). I`m happy to weld up/adapt etc if anyone has suggestions.

Please please can someone tell me a genuinely safe way and method of jacking the car up high enough to utilise axle stands so that its safe to work under it. ( I dont want to use the "carefully place on axle stands on one side and then carefully jack up other side" method unless it really is the only way - its too dodgy in my book)

Thanks in advance but its one of the last issues for me that if solved will mean I`ll definitely keep the car

Paul

 

[Big Dave]

If you can get a jack under the cill in the middle where the small diamond is on the cill, thats the best place to jack it from.. As the whole side of the car is raised up...
I had to modify my small trolley jack to get it under .. My car is also lower than standard....[][]
DONT under no circumstances jack it on the front plate just behind the front wheels.. Youll find you floor will bend resulting in the accelerator sticking on....

 

[sawood12]

I would be very careful if using some sort of rubber pad on the jack that gives you a flat surface. I would be concerned of the car slipping off the flat surface. My jack is dished and luckily the size of the dish is just the right size to cup the jacking point so it is very secure. I've used soft pine pads on the bottom of the dish just to provide a soft bed and over the times i've jacked the car up the pine has compressed to form a pretty solid protective base. In order to get one side of my car up to allow me to get the jack under the car in the first place I use some block paving bricks which raises one side just enought to get the jack under.

Fen reckons that you can use the castor bushes as good axel stand points which I have used as a secondry support but I still havn't found a point under the car I would wholly trust to rest on axel stands. I tend to support the weight of the car on the jack but lower the car so the axel stands are just touching either the castor bushes or some other solid looking member so if the jack does fail the axel stands will immediately take the weight - but under normal circumstances I know that the weight of the car is being bourne by the proper md-sill jack point.

I have not yet plucked up the courage to jack one side up, support with axel stands as I jack up the other side as like you I don't think that the standard axel stand ends look very secure.

I have seen a gadget with extendable ends with rubber pads at the end, just like the ones on proper lifts, that you can use with a single jack to jack up the whole of the front of the car in one go, however yet again I think the low height of the 944 would make it very difficult to use.

 

[Siggy]

Just tried them and they don't work

Dave

 

[dlknight]

Hey all,

I raise mine from the centre jacking point and use a soft piece of wood over the jack arm so as not to damage the jacking point. I then place the first axle stand under the front beam that runs back from the cross-member. After reading lots of posts on rennlist this appears to be the best place to support the car. I have had no problems supporting it in this way. I then move to the opposite side and do the same.

If you use the search facility on this forum I think there was a diagram that someone posted several months ago.

Cheers

Dave K.

PS. This is all IMHO and I am not endorsing this, be careful and if you aren't confident leave it to the pro's.