Question About Jack Points and Stands
#31
01-04-2022, 10:06 AM
#33
01-05-2022, 08:09 AM
Drifting
The downside of the Bendpak is that it sits on the garage floor. When not deployed, you line up the wheels on either side and park above it. The arms are adjustable and have rubber pucks and longer truck pucks that can be placed on the jack points. Not cheap but extremely useful for me over the years.
#34
01-05-2022, 08:31 AM
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Just have to be sure you have enough garage ceiling clearance. Reminds me of a friend of mine that after college got a job as a manager at a Jiffy Lube.
He always had multiple destruction stories to share including when a technician punched a Winnebago through the roof of the building. Other incidents included dropping a GTI off a lift, manual shift cars rolling away, cars leaving with no oil, anti-freeze added to the windshield washer reservoir, and a car catching fire due to a shop rag left under the hood.
He always had multiple destruction stories to share including when a technician punched a Winnebago through the roof of the building. Other incidents included dropping a GTI off a lift, manual shift cars rolling away, cars leaving with no oil, anti-freeze added to the windshield washer reservoir, and a car catching fire due to a shop rag left under the hood.
#35
01-05-2022, 08:37 AM
Drifting
Just have to be sure you have enough garage ceiling clearance. Reminds me of a friend of mine that after college got a job as a manager at a Jiffy Lube.
He always had multiple destruction stories to share including when a technician punched a Winnebago through the roof of the building. Other incidents included dropping a GTI off a lift, manual shift cars rolling away, cars leaving with no oil, anti-freeze added to the windshield washer reservoir, and a car catching fire due to a shop rag left under the hood.
He always had multiple destruction stories to share including when a technician punched a Winnebago through the roof of the building. Other incidents included dropping a GTI off a lift, manual shift cars rolling away, cars leaving with no oil, anti-freeze added to the windshield washer reservoir, and a car catching fire due to a shop rag left under the hood.
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#36
01-05-2022, 08:40 AM
Just have to be sure you have enough garage ceiling clearance. Reminds me of a friend of mine that after college got a job as a manager at a Jiffy Lube.
He always had multiple destruction stories to share including when a technician punched a Winnebago through the roof of the building. Other incidents included dropping a GTI off a lift, manual shift cars rolling away, cars leaving with no oil, anti-freeze added to the windshield washer reservoir, and a car catching fire due to a shop rag left under the hood.
He always had multiple destruction stories to share including when a technician punched a Winnebago through the roof of the building. Other incidents included dropping a GTI off a lift, manual shift cars rolling away, cars leaving with no oil, anti-freeze added to the windshield washer reservoir, and a car catching fire due to a shop rag left under the hood.
#38
01-05-2022, 08:55 AM
Recovery Vehicle
Muppetry / Allegedly:
As a unibody, integrated steel / aluminum design, there are no frame members between the front and rear of the vehicle designed to carry the suspended weight of the vehicle from a lift point load (or loads) -- what would normally be handled by the box beams in a pick up truck or an LR4. At the point where a such a beam would normally exist there are only much smaller longitudinal load carrying u- channels, designed to hold the bottom of the vehicle together fore to aft under towing and daily driving loads over time.
To carry the vertical loads of the engine, transmission, transfer case, rear hatch door, differentials and suspension, there exist only two very geometrically robust monocoque cavities formed (separately) fore and aft -- each centered over the front and rear suspensions (where the four lifting points are) and extending to and across the roof (also why the roof can carry its large load and the torsional rigidity of the body is a most critical design feature).
I expect a careful user in an unloaded vehicle can get away with what is shown the fore to aft lift picture -- but JLR's design cannot support nor warranty its use, generally.
The other caution is that their is nothing structural fore or aft of the monocoque cavities -- which end beneath the radiator in the front and the carry through bolt up point to the rear bumper assembly -- making off-road customization much more difficult and expensive than on a Jeep or Toyota.
Enjoy !!
As a unibody, integrated steel / aluminum design, there are no frame members between the front and rear of the vehicle designed to carry the suspended weight of the vehicle from a lift point load (or loads) -- what would normally be handled by the box beams in a pick up truck or an LR4. At the point where a such a beam would normally exist there are only much smaller longitudinal load carrying u- channels, designed to hold the bottom of the vehicle together fore to aft under towing and daily driving loads over time.
To carry the vertical loads of the engine, transmission, transfer case, rear hatch door, differentials and suspension, there exist only two very geometrically robust monocoque cavities formed (separately) fore and aft -- each centered over the front and rear suspensions (where the four lifting points are) and extending to and across the roof (also why the roof can carry its large load and the torsional rigidity of the body is a most critical design feature).
I expect a careful user in an unloaded vehicle can get away with what is shown the fore to aft lift picture -- but JLR's design cannot support nor warranty its use, generally.
The other caution is that their is nothing structural fore or aft of the monocoque cavities -- which end beneath the radiator in the front and the carry through bolt up point to the rear bumper assembly -- making off-road customization much more difficult and expensive than on a Jeep or Toyota.
Enjoy !!
#39
01-05-2022, 09:27 AM
Muppetry / Allegedly:
As a unibody, integrated steel / aluminum design, there are no frame members between the front and rear of the vehicle designed to carry the suspended weight of the vehicle from a lift point load (or loads) -- what would normally be handled by the box beams in a pick up truck or an LR4. At the point where a such a beam would normally exist there are only much smaller longitudinal load carrying u- channels, designed to hold the bottom of the vehicle together fore to aft under towing and daily driving loads over time.
To carry the vertical loads of the engine, transmission, transfer case, rear hatch door, differentials and suspension, there exist only two very geometrically robust monocoque cavities formed (separately) fore and aft -- each centered over the front and rear suspensions (where the four lifting points are) and extending to and across the roof (also why the roof can carry its large load and the torsional rigidity of the body is a most critical design feature).
I expect a careful user in an unloaded vehicle can get away with what is shown the fore to aft lift picture -- but JLR's design cannot support nor warranty its use, generally.
The other caution is that their is nothing structural fore or aft of the monocoque cavities -- which end beneath the radiator in the front and the carry through bolt up point to the rear bumper assembly -- making off-road customization much more difficult and expensive than on a Jeep or Toyota.
Enjoy !!
As a unibody, integrated steel / aluminum design, there are no frame members between the front and rear of the vehicle designed to carry the suspended weight of the vehicle from a lift point load (or loads) -- what would normally be handled by the box beams in a pick up truck or an LR4. At the point where a such a beam would normally exist there are only much smaller longitudinal load carrying u- channels, designed to hold the bottom of the vehicle together fore to aft under towing and daily driving loads over time.
To carry the vertical loads of the engine, transmission, transfer case, rear hatch door, differentials and suspension, there exist only two very geometrically robust monocoque cavities formed (separately) fore and aft -- each centered over the front and rear suspensions (where the four lifting points are) and extending to and across the roof (also why the roof can carry its large load and the torsional rigidity of the body is a most critical design feature).
I expect a careful user in an unloaded vehicle can get away with what is shown the fore to aft lift picture -- but JLR's design cannot support nor warranty its use, generally.
The other caution is that their is nothing structural fore or aft of the monocoque cavities -- which end beneath the radiator in the front and the carry through bolt up point to the rear bumper assembly -- making off-road customization much more difficult and expensive than on a Jeep or Toyota.
Enjoy !!
#40
01-05-2022, 09:40 AM
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