Anyone care to explain the easiest way to get your car up on 4 jack stands?

I will be painting my calipers soon and will need to do this.

I did find a picture of where to put them, but need to know the procedure with the jack beforehand...

 

Well, apparently S2000GT and myself are NOT the correct ones to ask. Luder94 scoffed at our poor car jacking abilites (my car was sitting at an odd angle while it was up.)

Perhaps Luder can shed some light on this for us.

 

Find the "pinch" that is located behind the front tires and in front of the rear tires. The locations of these weld "pinches" are shown on the Owner's Manual and are clearly visible if you peek under the car. Once you jack up each corner, place the jack stand below the frame points shown on the diagram above. Make sure to jack the car up sufficiently so that you can manuever the jack stands underneath the car.

Once the stand is in place, lower the car onto them. Repeat this procedure on all 4 corners. I usually start with the front left corner, then front right, then rear right, then rear left.

The tegs have a nicer setup...there is a CENTRAL jacking point where you can jack up the front half and rear half of the car at once and place stands at the corners.

 

Well, the S2000 does have center jack points. This I know, but my jack doesn't fit under the front of the car without first driving up onto ramps made from 2 2x8 boards stacked on top of each other and screwed together.

You CAN lift one whole side at a time so you don't have to jack 4 times.

 

I did this once by placing the jack on the frame rail with a 2x4 to evenly spread the weight across it. Then I just jacked up one side, then the other.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ruexp67
Well, the S2000 does have center jack points.

 

you can use the differential casing as a jack point too.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Axel6
Where is the central jacking point...roughly?

 

I don't like getting the car on the frame rails at any point. The rails are much too "thick" for the "foot" of my jackstands, and they are big.

What I saw this past weekend had me quite concerned regarding how these guys jacked their cars up. The rails just didn't "mount" into the opening into the stand.

It was apparent that jacking this way wasn't the most stable as I started taking the cars down. As I lifted one side slowly and steadily, I could hear creaking and screaching. I'd assume the screaching is from the frame rails sliding and setting into the stands on the opposite site. As one side of the stands had been removed, lowering the cars was just as hair raising. More screaching and much more creaking. I was just waiting for a stand or two to shoot out from underneath the car.

Where I have successfully jacked up my car from for years is by using the jacking points found either behind the front wheels, or right in front of the rear wheels. If I need to lift the car side to side, I use the rear jacking point (in front of the rear wheels) to get the car about 2-3' feet in the air. Then I place one jack stand at the connection point of where the rear part of the front a-arm bolts to the chassis. I place the other stand (set to the same height as the rear) where the front part of the rear a-arm bolts to the chassis.

I lower the car onto the stands. Then I go do the same to the other side. If the car needs to be raised higher, I then raise one side higher (after it's already been lifted). Then go around and do the other side. I never try to accomplish a "high" raise in one step...lowering is the same. I lower one side onto lowered stands, and then do the other side.

I hope that my writing doesn't confuse you more.

 

I've looked in the owner's manual and couldn't find any info on the central jacking points. It only mentioned the jacking points closest to each wheel. Where does it mention the central jacking points?