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Topic: Best way to jack up the front end?
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mustangboy
Gearhead Posts: 1343
From: Ont, Canada
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-03-2003 09:19 PM
 
For all you guys who put your car up on blocks for the winter where do you put your jackstands on the frontend?I usually jack the front end of the car up right under the lower ball joint on the lower control arm.The trouble is that the jack is then in the way so you can't put the jackstand there. If you put it any further up along the lower control arm when you let the jack down the control arm will usually slip off of the jackstand.If you put the jackstand on the framerail you really have to jack the car up high because the suspension drops down a long ways.------------------
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Fastback68
Gearhead Posts: 4511
From: Sucat, Paranaque, Philippines
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 11-04-2003 02:55 AM
I just jack it up by the frame rail then slip the jack stand quickly under the part where the frame rail and the torque box are joined.
I know plently of folks jack up by the lower control arm, but it's never seemed a good option to me.
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jkilroy
Gearhead Posts: 1811
From: Vicksburg, MS
Registered: Dec 99
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posted 11-10-2003 02:58 PM
With a floor jack. 
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DidgeyTrucker
Gearhead Posts: 1813
From: Greenbrier, TN USA
Registered: Oct 99
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posted 11-10-2003 06:40 PM
Well, here in Tennessee most of the cars I see up on blocks (in the front yard - usually two ir three) are literally "up on blocks" - concrete blocks - usually under the rotors and drums because the cars have no wheels.I have a '65 Mustang in the garage (with wheels) and the jackstands (metal) are under the frame rail under the firewall at the front and under the frame rail near the front spring hanger in the rear. Tracy
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Moneymaker
Administrator Posts: 29200
From: Lyons, IL, USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 11-10-2003 06:43 PM
If you get a three or four foot long piece of 4x4 inch wood, you can place it on the jack and lift the car easily and as high as you need off of the strut rod bushings. Works great.  ------------------
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