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[jleilich]

This may have been asked before, i looked and couldnt find anything on it.

I have a 2000 s80, The manual only mentions the factory jack for jacking up the car. I cannot find a place to put my floor jack on it to jack it up, or where to place jack stands without damaging the under side of the car.

can somone help me out. Maybe an adapter for my floor jack to go on the factory jack mount??

[the underlørd]

This may have been asked before, i looked and couldnt find anything on it.

I have a 2000 s80, The manual only mentions the factory jack for jacking up the car. I cannot find a place to put my floor jack on it to jack it up, or where to place jack stands without damaging the under side of the car.

can somone help me out. Maybe an adapter for my floor jack to go on the factory jack mount??

put the floor jack where the gfactory jack woud go...

[Kibim]

I always put my floor-jacks under the wish-bone mountings on the frame. Works fine.

[V Tuning 850]

Somewhere on the frame near the edge of the car. That is where somone has always jacked mine up.

[the underlørd]

The factory jack has a small hook like thing that goes into a bracket that is attached to the car. The floor jack is flat. If i try to put the floor jack on that thing it will damage my car.

no it won't... i pick up my car all the time by doing that exact same thing....

[Kibim]

Doesn't help much if you wanna pick it up straight...

To be honest, when i need to get under my car, i take it to a friend's garage, and pull it up on a drive-on hoist. Safer, easier, and far less physical!

[the underlørd]

Doesn't help much if you wanna pick it up straight...

To be honest, when i need to get under my car, i take it to a friend's garage, and pull it up on a drive-on hoist. Safer, easier, and far less physical!

Well, I'm just picking it up to either, 1) change rims or 2) get the car up on jackstands... not to hold it up there for any length of time.

[gr8gatzby]

Well, I'm just picking it up to either, 1) change rims or 2) get the car up on jackstands... not to hold it up there for any length of time.

i wonder if anyone makes a garage ceiling mounted winchlike device that will raise a car via straps/cables that hook at 4 corners of the vehicle....

[the underlørd]

i wonder if anyone makes a garage ceiling mounted winchlike device that will raise a car via straps/cables that hook at 4 corners of the vehicle....

I have a 6 ton Bridge Crane that would might work.

[gr8gatzby]

I have a 6 ton Bridge Crane that would might work.

do you rent by the hour or by the day?

[bottlecap]

to put rims on just use the stock jacking points and do one side, then the other. for most front end jobs you can use part of the sub frame. stuff in the back is a little harder, but you shouldn't find yourself back there too often.

-mike

[Hagan]

I always put my floor-jacks under the wish-bone mountings on the frame. Works fine.

I do the same and place the jackstands running parrallel to the frame just past the factory jack points on either side. If you really can't find a place for the stands, jack it up and start tapping the underside of the car in places you think you might be able to put the stands. The place with the highest pitch or "tightest" sound is probably best.

[Slater]

Just put it up on blocks. That's how we do it old skool downtown.

Edited by Slater, 11 October 2005 - 09:15 PM.

[nervegrind3r]

can anyone tell me where the proper points are to put the car on 4 jackstands, or where to jack the car if not jacking from the side points near the doors?

thanks