Any body got a diagram of the strongest points on the Z to stick axel stands under??

Correct lifting *and* safety points:

 

http://300zx-twinturbo.com/cgi-bin/manual.cgi (general information GI-22)

 

-Andrew

Cheers mate.

I was going to ask the same question. The jacking points indicated appear to be metal box sections (on the front at least). However they don't seem very thick and crucially, the cup shaped top of my axle stands are too narrow. Hence the only way is to balance the car on one lip of the axle stand.

 

Allow me to demonstrate with ASCII art:

 

|____| car box section.

 

\__/ axle stand.

 

Am I using the wrong place?

 

Also, when jacking the car up with the OEM jack, the sills are a bit distorted and also too wide to fit into the groove in the jack. When I raised the jack, it pulled the two parts of the sill together and removed some of the coating (stone chip stuff?).

 

Has someone made my car a wide-body version by stretching the whole car width ways?

 

Ian A.

I was going to ask the same question. The jacking points indicated appear to be metal box sections (on the front at least). However they don't seem very thick and crucially, the cup shaped top of my axle stands are too narrow. Hence the only way is to balance the car on one lip of the axle stand.

 

Allow me to demonstrate with ASCII art:

 

|____| car box section.

 

\__/ axle stand.

 

Am I using the wrong place?

 

Also, when jacking the car up with the OEM jack, the sills are a bit distorted and also too wide to fit into the groove in the jack. When I raised the jack, it pulled the two parts of the sill together and removed some of the coating (stone chip stuff?).

 

Has someone made my car a wide-body version by stretching the whole car width ways?

 

Ian A.

 

No it's a common problem with axle stands :( I always use a couple of blocks of wood on top of the stands so when the car is lowered onto them, they push into the wood making a nice secure base. Also saves damage to the underside of the car as well ;)

 

Steve :)

No it's a common problem with axle stands :( I always use a couple of blocks of wood on top of the stands so when the car is lowered onto them, they push into the wood making a nice secure base. Also saves damage to the underside of the car as well ;)

 

Steve :)

 

 

glad im not the only one then! :headvswal

I had to put the jack on a piece of wood in order to get the height to get the axle stand underneath. There was an almighty crack as the weight of the car split the wood in two! :o

 

The only wood I had left was conti board (chip board) but surprisingly, this held OK.

 

Ian A.

or you can pit the axle stand under the front crossmember :)

 

Vijay

I thought of that but my head needs to go there in order to get to the square nut at the back of the top alternator mount. Nice positioning there Nissan, I really enjoy having my arm jammed between the oil filter and a copper brake pipe.