Topic: jacking up 71 vette.
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I plan to jack my car up using a floor jack and then set it on jack stands. Where should I put the jack and then where do the stands need to go? I know improperly jacking up the car could cause body twist and damage.
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Bob,
I put the front jack stands in the lower A-Arm pockets & the rear stands under the lower strut rods where they were bolted to the rear spindles.
I had my car up on jackstands for that way for a year & it was rock solid.
When the A-Arms were off I put the stands under the frame where it turned inward, just behing the front wheel wells. I was not as comfortable with that but it held, even when wh had to kick the front springs into position.
Good luck,
Anthony
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Here is a diagram, compliments of cj5nutz.
I hope it is readable.
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Vette(s): #1-1974 L-48 4spd Cp Med Red Metallic/Black deluxe int w/AC/tilt/tele./p/w-p/b/
Am-Fm/map light National/Regional/Chapter NCRS "Top Flight"
#2-1985 Bright Red/Carmine Cp.L-98/auto
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[QUOTE=dwright] Here is a diagram, compliments of cj5nutz.
Hmmmm...I think I've seen that somewhere before...I wonder where it was? Looks amazingly enough like something I did!
I hope it is readable.
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Hmmmm...I think I've seen that somewhere before...I wonder where it was? Looks amazingly enough like something I did!
Joel Adams
C3VR Lifetime Member #56
My Link
(click for Texas-sized view!) NCRS
"Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comforting to cry in a CORVETTE than in a Kia"
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