by "Jcarr" (jcarr)
Published 04/04/2017 at 10:05
by "Jcarr" (jcarr)
Published 04/04/2017 at 10:05
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My first oil change/tire rotation on the Camry is coming up and I’m researching the best placement for my jack stands when I rotate the tires. Thankfully, Toyota provides central jacking points (giggity) to get the front and rear ends up with a floor jack, but I’m a little worried about placing my jack stands on the pinch weld jacking points.
What do you folks think? My stands are similar to these in terms of the pad shape.
"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
04/04/2017 at 10:09, STARS: 2
Eh if it’s a jacking point then it’ll be beefy enough, although I must admit I don’t really like jacking points on the lip of sills. Too easy to crack the paint and open up the area to rust in 10-20 years when I’ll actually be buying the cars.
Not a problem for most people I must admit as most people won’t keep a car long enough for that to develop...
"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
04/04/2017 at 10:11, STARS: 0
They got a tool for that...
"Jcarr" (jcarr)
04/04/2017 at 10:12, STARS: 1
I saw that, but it looks like it’s for jacking, not really for jack stands.
"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
04/04/2017 at 10:13, STARS: 0
I used them when I had my Corvair in the air for a few months. Though the ones I got were off Ebay.
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
04/04/2017 at 10:16, STARS: 0
If you’re using the pinch welds located at the “official factory jack points,” then it should be mostly cosmetic. I’ve heard many people joke that the initial jackstand indentation just makes for a better hold in the future. But I still use plywood squares on top of the stands for less damage to the undercoating, and also for a bigger contact patch with the stands.
"LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com" (limitedtimeonly)
04/04/2017 at 10:16, STARS: 0
Having just carefully considered how best to swap my wheels, I have an opinion (and you know what that can be worth). I got rubber pads for my jack stands for an added safety measure, and a rubber puck with a slot in it for my floor jack.
That said, as someone pointed out to me, the scissor jack in the trunk is all metal and pushes up on that pinch weld without padding, so what I’m doing is surely overkill.
"Sweet Trav" (thespunbearing)
04/04/2017 at 10:17, STARS: 0
I took a hockey puck to a bench grinder. put a nice slot in it for the pinch welds.
"Mattbob" (mattbob)
04/04/2017 at 10:24, STARS: 0
You could always just buy some hockey pucks and modify them as necessary to suit your stands/jacking point.
"diplodicus" (diplodicus)
04/04/2017 at 10:33, STARS: 0
TBH I always just put the jackstands on frame rails on pinch weld vehicles. Never seemed to harm them.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
04/04/2017 at 10:38, STARS: 1
On a unibody car, I don’t really know where else to put them.
"Biased Plies" (biased-plies)
04/04/2017 at 10:38, STARS: 0
I did the same.
So. Much. Smoke.
Pretty pointless with my car at this point because rust has already taken a good hold but it makes me feel like I’ve made an effort to preserve it, which is nice.
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
04/04/2017 at 10:55, STARS: 1
Scissor jacks that come in the trunk of a car usually work on pinch welds without messing them up because the scissor jack has a slot that mates up to the pinch weld.
