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Jacking Car Up And Using Axle Stands Etc

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gtrzilla

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Im looking at getting some kind of axle stands or similar for my car so that i can jack it up and take all 4 wheels off the ground

whats the best option

ive seen like ramps you could drive up i guess, but they wouldnt work if you needed to remove the wheels for suspension etc

and with the stands where do you put them on on the car

are they safe enough to get under the car using these stands??

Sandeep Community Regular

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I use a jack on the crossmember and diff and then use the stands on the chassis rails. i always leave the trolley jack inplace and put the wheels underneath as well, just to be safe.

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Starting with your final question first, it's the reason for using axle stands - so that you can crawl around under the car without the risk of it dropping on you.

At the front, I usually fit the stands under the LCA pivot point. At the rear, somewhere under the swing arm.

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Axle stands ftw.

I don't like many of the spots ppl use on a R32, so have made up dense rubber blocks with slots to position on the stand and rest the OEM SILL on.

Designed from factory to take the weight there. Workshop manual states to use that area too with a Nissan block. I couldn't even TRY and conceive the car falling off them (unlike some of the other options)

Worrying about your car falling on your is ghey.

Rubber is like $5 from Clarks rubber scrap bin. Stands are massively over engineered 2T each units (using 4) from a specialty tool shop here in H'Ville.

Placing wheels under your car too, hints you don't trust your stands / contact points... in which you shouldn't even be doing it / getting under there :no:

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