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Place Floor Jack under Ctr of Subframe 850

posted by  someone claiming to be gnb on  Wed Jul 3 14:59 CST 2002 [RELATED]

Safer IMO to jack the front of the 850 and place both jackstands at same time.

Front jack points for the 850 is the front subframe. I place my 3 ton sears's floor jack directly under where the front license plate is mounted - back under the crossmember of the subframe.

Once the car front is in the air I place a jackstand under the same subframe cross member.

Works great for me - I don't like messing with jacking one side at a time as there's some risk of the car toppling imho.


nathan






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