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Originally Posted by omfg5041
It's fine to lift by the pinch welds. It's what they're there for.
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Originally Posted by mav1178
Contrary to what you believe, the pinch weld areas are actual lift points for the car and can easily support the weight of the car.
-alex
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Originally Posted by lukes Frs
Look it up the pinch welds are nothing more than the visible area that the inerr structure weldsto the putter panel but have fun believing common miss beliefs in factors about you that knows for a fact that a pinch weld is for lifting a car look it up a pinch weld is only designed to support the load of the car when itis in pinch weld clamps on a frame machine. Justbecuse you work at advance auto or oriellys auto dosent mean your a car tech lol
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Originally Posted by omfg5041
Dude, become a mechanic and then tell us that the pinch welds are not for lifting. You can lift any unibody frame by the pinch welds without doing damage to the vehicle. Granted, if they are soft and rusted, then no, don't do that. Since I don't have time to argue with stupid, it might help to look at the following forum link - http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10111
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Originally Posted by omfg5041
I love how people with not education in the Automotive field are telling someone thats been in the trade for 4 years now, that he's wrong. Its one of the first things that you learn as a tech. I didn't know that everyone here thats been saying not to lift by the pinch welds were those that built the vehicle and are saying the printed documentation is wrong.
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I have jacked up this car by the pinch welds and they
FOLD OVER immediately.
They CANNOT support the weight of the car unless you have the "puck" device that supports on either side of the pinch.
Drive the car up on a 2X4 and then use the low profile jack to jack on the jack points identified in the manual.
I can almost guarantee that ALL of the people above that said that it is OK to jack by the pinch welds
have not done it on this car