Jacking up a 964
 

Hello,
Can any of you 964 people out there help me figure how to put my car on stands? I've owned it since last summer, and its about time I figured this out. I see only one lifting point, so how do I use a floor jack, and then place a stand under the car. I've seen posts (and a Pelican tech article) on using the torsion bar end cover, but this doesn't seem to have any application to the 964. So, what do you do?
Thanks for you help.

This is how I did it.

1. place 3.5 ton jack at driver's side, rear, jacking point
2. lift ENTIRE left side of car until you can get a jack stand under both
the front jacking point, and the left rear control arm. (Note: Your
comment below, "Can't get a stand and the jack on the allowed jacking space
at the same time" was my exact dilema. I pondered it for literally weeks,
before just going for it. When you look at the rear control arm, you will
see that it it huge, and it fully supports the weight of the vehicle when it
is riding on its tires. I placed a small block of 3/4 inch wood between the
jack stands and that part of the control arm that has a hole/tunnel through
the structure. I know that this is not the ideal, but short of having
access to either a car lift or a lifting jig of some kind, I think it's the
best we can do.)
3. Lower the car onto the two stands. Leave the jack in place, and
satisfy yourself that it's not going anywhere. I bought the biggest, badest
jack stands that you can get, I think. 6 ton capacity, each.
4. Move the jack to the other side of the car, and lift. Have a little
faith, here. It was really scarey seeing it for the first time! But... the
jack just lifted the entire car off the ground. Get that side a few
"notches" (on the jack stands, that is) higher on the right side, then lower
it down on the stands. Now, the car is leaning the other way!
5. Keep going until you run out of vertical lift. I maxed out the fron
stands, but had a few notches left on the rear.

Comming down is different. I didn't want to leave the car in the air for
several weeks, since it is outside. Becase I removed the engine, the pivot
point was different. When I lifted at the driver's side rear jacking point,
instead of tilting the car to the side, the entire back end came up.

6. Lift the rear of the car using one of the rear jacking points. Lower
the jack stands.
7. Move the the jack to the front of the car. Here, I placed the jack
(again, with a block of wood) underneath the mount for the forward
transaxle. Again, I know that this is not ideal, but I figured that it was
the best location, and the car is much lighter without the engine installed.
8. Sea saw your way down.

I needed a number of small blocks of wood to get the necessary height.



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Steve
'89 Carrera 4
'62 190 SL

Have you guys seen those new jack stands from snap-on? No notches to slip; when you lift the stand out of it's housing, the housing fills with small stainless beads (no way for the stand to collapse in on itself) Pretty damn trick, but $230.00

Those stands do sound cool. I gotta admit, I always worry when I'm working under my '66 Rolls. The thing weighs over twice what my Porsche weighs, and though my current stands are 3-ton, they still seem to groan under that load. When I get a house, I'm definitely getting a frickin' lift...

Emanuel

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Emanuel Brown
1983 911 SC Targa
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