So I've just ordered myself a new higher lift trolley jack and 4 taller jack stands. But what I wanted to ask you guys is how do you safely get the whole car on top of these taller stands? I've had a good look for hours on the internet but never really found much help so I hope you guys can.
To give you the details my old stands range from 12" - 20" and the new ones will go from 21" - 34" while the new jack will get me up 30" high. My car sits pretty low at 6" off the ground and its jacking points are under the diff & under the crossmember under the engine bay. Its jack stand points are just inside the pinch welds along both sides of the car between the front & back wheels.
So how do you go about getting it up there? My first thought is that if you first chock the rear wheels and jack up the front 30" and put the large stands in that would put the car at quite some angle which would put horizontal pushing forces on those stands. It could also stop me from accessing the diff as the back of the car would lower.
So do you go in stages? So put the front up half way, say 15", and then jack up the back all the way upto 30", then return to the front to get that upto 30" as well? This could still put some horizontal forces on those front stands as the car would pivot on them as you jack up the rear (and obviously the front wheels would not be chocked). To be even safer you could go up in even smaller steps?
Perhaps instead of pivoting the car on those front axle stands it would be better to have the wheels on a ramp (or construct some solid blocks of wood) and in that way you could chock the front wheels as well.
So maybe I'm over thinking this but I'd certainly like to be on the safe side. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
To give you the details my old stands range from 12" - 20" and the new ones will go from 21" - 34" while the new jack will get me up 30" high. My car sits pretty low at 6" off the ground and its jacking points are under the diff & under the crossmember under the engine bay. Its jack stand points are just inside the pinch welds along both sides of the car between the front & back wheels.
So how do you go about getting it up there? My first thought is that if you first chock the rear wheels and jack up the front 30" and put the large stands in that would put the car at quite some angle which would put horizontal pushing forces on those stands. It could also stop me from accessing the diff as the back of the car would lower.
So do you go in stages? So put the front up half way, say 15", and then jack up the back all the way upto 30", then return to the front to get that upto 30" as well? This could still put some horizontal forces on those front stands as the car would pivot on them as you jack up the rear (and obviously the front wheels would not be chocked). To be even safer you could go up in even smaller steps?
Perhaps instead of pivoting the car on those front axle stands it would be better to have the wheels on a ramp (or construct some solid blocks of wood) and in that way you could chock the front wheels as well.
So maybe I'm over thinking this but I'd certainly like to be on the safe side. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
