Spent a few hours this evening lifting my zed onto axle stands and removing the alloys.

 

And what a faff it is lifting the car up, I couldn't use my decent trolley jack as it shifts the car as the jack raises - not what you want when stands are partly supporting it. In the end I used a small vertical one and the standard scissor jack as both lift the car straight up. It must be safe I guess but I'm paranoid about leaning on the car etc lol. Thanks to Ryan for the reassurance on the phone hehe :cool:

 

Having only used them before as a back up for a jack I was surprised at how... shite the system is really. It looks so precarious. On Saturday I will be removing the exhaust and decat pipe, this seems scary as fook being under the supported car with no wheels on!

 

Making things harder the garage it is in is pretty small - about a foot down one side 8/9inches down the other. I struggled to get the pass side front wheel out of the wheel arch :rofl:

 

Please resist the temptation to retell stories of cars falling on peoples heads etc ;)

 

Cheers

 

Pete

Yeah Dave - I find even the simple jobs on a zed turn into complicated ones lol.

 

Have you got the stock scissor jack to raise the car a touch first? See Aaron - its a faff!

I have a similar problem regarding a rippled floor, but use some old hardboard off the back of a wardrobe, smooth side up. Nice and thin because I'm not, :D , but slippery enough to slide in and out of on my back. Have been known to use a small bit of carpet to slide in and out on top of the board, web side up. Poor man's crawler replacement!

 

Going to have to stick mine up again soon, if the insurance company will let me keep it. :(

 

 

Simon.

I have got the stock jack, yes. It's a pain in the @rse though. :mad:

Have you got the stock scissor jack to raise the car a touch first? See Aaron - its a faff!

 

I use a couple of home made ramps to get the front/rear wheels high enough to allow the trolley jack adequate movement. Piece of piss to make, just 2 lengths of 2"x4" (one obviously shorter than the other) screwed together.

 

Steve :)

 

* EDIT * You obviously need some parking aptitude to get the car onto the ramps, so maybe this isn't for you Pete ;)

LMFAO :rofl: Hey I was impressed I got it in the garage :D

I use a couple of home made ramps to get the front/rear wheels high enough to allow the trolley jack adequate movement. Piece of piss to make, just 2 lengths of 2"x4" (one obviously shorter than the other) screwed together.

 

Steve :)

 

* EDIT * You obviously need some parking aptitude to get the car onto the ramps, so maybe this isn't for you Pete ;)

It allows relies on the car being in a state where you can drive it! ;)

My trolley jack just about fits under the front of the car, but it's tight enough that I can't move the bar up and down to raise the car... :mad:

 

Heh - mine has a really, really long handle (probably over 1m long) so it sticks out the front miles.. It helps that this car isn't lowered, so I can get the jack under and get just enough swing on the arm to raise the car - once it's up an inch or two it goes up at great speed. (Halfords 3t trolley jack - my 1.5t one has a titchy handle that doesn't even reach the bumper :rofl: )

 

On the import I had, I had to drive/push it up onto a couple of bits of wood - only needed to be an inch thick or so, and that gave me enough space..

 

You big bunch of girls :nelson: :rofl: ;)

Heh - mine has a really, really long handle (probably over 1m long) so it sticks out the front miles.. It helps that this car isn't lowered, so I can get the jack under and get just enough swing on the arm to raise the car - once it's up an inch or two it goes up at great speed. (Halfords 3t trolley jack - my 1.5t one has a titchy handle that doesn't even reach the bumper :rofl: )

I've got a Halfords 2t one and it won't raise the car at all. :(

 

I'm not sure why it would make any difference having a long handle though - surely the only thing that's important is what range of movement is needed to raise the jack one 'notch'? In fact, having a really short handle is probably better, although you'd need to be pretty strong to get the car moving, so that would probably be no good for Pete... :tongue:

 

On the import I had, I had to drive/push it up onto a couple of bits of wood - only needed to be an inch thick or so, and that gave me enough space..

I'll give that a go next time.

I've got a Halfords 2t one and it won't raise the car at all. :(

 

The 3t one works great - weighs a bl**dy ton though, so I give myself a hernia every time I carry it from the shed to the car :rofl:

 

I'm not sure why it would make any difference having a long handle though - surely the only thing that's important is what range of movement is needed to raise the jack one 'notch'?

 

Mainly it's handy because it actually reaches further forward than the bumper, so you don't have to try and jack the car up with your hand under the car.. ;) Plus as you say - it requires less effort to move the car, which is always good..

 

although you'd need to be pretty strong to get the car moving, so that would probably be no good for Pete... :tongue:

 

:rofl: :rofl:

He got there in the end :D

 

PMSL :rofl:

Warning! Do not jack your car up in the middle of the front cross member. One of the previous owners did this to mine and bent the cross member which then rusted so I had to have a new one stitched in for the MOT last year which required the rad. oil cooler and aircon rad to be removed.

 

Ivan

Warning! Do not jack your car up in the middle of the front cross member. One of the previous owners did this to mine and bent the cross member which then rusted so I had to have a new one stitched in for the MOT last year which required the rad. oil cooler and aircon rad to be removed.

 

Just to clarify a bit - you're talking about a different crossmember than I was ;) I don't mean the main front member (which the radiator etc attaches to) right at the front of the car, I mean the main crossmember that the engine is sat on further back.

 

Marked as the garage jacking point here (these are the two I've always used, as per the manwhel):

 

 

You're right though, jacking it up via the bit under the radiator is definitely not recommended - the cars always seem to rust there, and it's weak in that direction (though it is a main structural member - it's just strong in other directions like compression, rather than being bent in the middle :))

Yeah it wasn't the peice in between the wheels but the part the rad mounts to.

 

Ivan