Jack Stand Placement

[Robert97]

I have a floor jack and two jack stands and a very small one car garage. I'm trying to lift the left front and left rear wheels to rotate tires before the next track day.

If I jack say the front left front the car at the jack point (the crimp point on the sheet metal seam), where do I put the jack stand? The jack is holding up the car at the crimp point, so I can’t put the jack stand there. Same issue with rear.

I can't lift at the front or rear of the car because of space constraints a sloping driveway.

Any help appreciated.

[villainous_frx]

Jack up one corner, remove wheel, put on spare, lower car. Jack up other corner, remove wheel, put rotated wheel on, lower car. Jack up first corner, remove spare, put on rotated wheel. Just don't put any body parts under the car, the jack should be fine to hold up the car for the minute it takes to swap one wheel for another.

Or hit up a Walmart parking lot, they're usually level and don't have an issue with people doing stuff like that.

[EndlessAzure]

Originally Posted by Robert97

I have a floor jack and two jack stands and a very small one car garage. I'm trying to lift the left front and left rear wheels to rotate tires before the next track day.

If I jack say the front left front the car at the jack point (the crimp point on the sheet metal seam), where do I put the jack stand? The jack is holding up the car at the crimp point, so I can’t put the jack stand there. Same issue with rear.

I can't lift at the front or rear of the car because of space constraints a sloping driveway.

Any help appreciated.

Place the floor jack just behind the actual jacking point. It should be strong enough to support the weight. The car is stiff enough that the entire side of the car comes up no problem. Use a jack pad if you're worried about pinching or marring the rail. Then place the jack stands onto the normal jack points.

You can see in the below photo that the rear of the car is lifted (there isn't a stand there yet; you can count the one under the front pinch weld and the other 3 stands along the wall), even though the floor jack is pretty far forward. Obviously it's not safe to leave it this way, so place a jack at the rear position once you're raised

[Robert97]

Originally Posted by EndlessAzure

Place the floor jack just behind the actual jacking point. It should be strong enough to support the weight. The car is stiff enough that the entire side of the car comes up no problem. Use a jack pad if you're worried about pinching or marring the rail. Then place the jack stands onto the normal jack points.

You can see in the below photo that the rear of the car is lifted (there isn't a stand there yet; you can count the one under the front pinch weld and the other 3 stands along the wall), even though the floor jack is pretty far forward. Obviously it's not safe to leave it this way, so place a jack at the rear position once you're raised

Thanks. I will try this.

[new2subaru]

I used to lift the front of the car and then rear. I do one wheel at a time now with a scissor jack and impact. If you can't find one with a socket head you can get an adapter. I still place a jack stand under before changing a wheel.

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/1-2-Inc...RD2F988BHQRUW3

Simple, light and easy.