Jacking the 911

[s_wilwerding]

I tried to jack up the front of the 911 the other day. However, my floor jack was almost too tall to fit underneath the car (at least far enough to hit the jack points). I had to turn the wheel all the way to one side and employ some people to lift up the front end while I slid the jack underneath. It's not a particularly high floor jack and I can't imagine another one would be any shorter.

Does anyone have any advice on this?

[Targa Dude]

Hi, it sounds like your car is at the minimum lowered to EURO SPECS. This situation with the floor jack is common with lowered p-cars, what I do is drive my car onto a 2X6 piece of wood.
then the jack slides in just fine.

hope this helps.

Jorge (Targa Dude)

[Early_S_Man]

SC's DON'T HAVE any reinforced jacking points on the pan! You are risking damaging the pan by trying to use a floor jack! The only way to make a floor jack safe to lift the pan by ... is to put a large piece of 2 x 8 or 2 x 12 lumber over the jack pad.

Use a jack plate, and jack up either side by the factory jack port!

[s_wilwerding]

I'm not jacking on the pan. I'm jacking on the "approved" jacking points, which are about even with the front wheels and towards the center of the car. The manual says you can use a floor jack there.

If I were jacking on the pan, I wouldn't have any trouble getting the jack underneath the car.

[Doug E]

Get a jack plate and use it - once you do you'll never go back!

[marcesq]

Steve:

I think what Warren and Doug are trying to say is that for 16 bucks a jack plate is the prefered method of jacking up the car. You will never have a problem with clearance and will not chance damaging the suspension or pan.

My 1 cent.