8cd03gro

I've just been using the ford jacking points and jacking the car up, putting jackstands there, then having floorjacks on the diff housing and right by the k-member, just for extra safety if a stand fails, but i have been told by a few people now to not put jack stands under the jacking points pointed out in the manual. Nobody can tell me why though just, "i heard not to do it." well wtf?! does anybody have any better ideas?!

schapman

the jack ford supplied

Sancho805

a case of redbull. i give it a chance to enter the bloodstream then I lift.

PennState

yeah i use the stock jack tooo

pperin

I bought a Pep Boys floor jack combo it was like 39 bucks and it came with the floor jack on wheels, 2 jack stands, and a dolly to lay under the car with. Works great!!

68XR7

If you look in the owners manual, it says not to put the jack under the differential housing. I don't know why, that's just what it says. It always seemed like that was the best place to put the jack. Maybe someone here knows why you aren't supposed to put the jack there.

8cd03gro

i dont actually jack the car up at that point, i just put the jack there in case one of the stands fail in the back it will be supported at least enough for me to get out. People are telling me not to use the jack points that ford talks about in the manual to put jack stands under. Someone said they are not meant to hold all that weight of the car actually lifted, they are just made to handle jacking it up to change out to a spare or something...i can't imagine the jacking points aren't strong enough to handle it, but i wanna make sure im not wrong before i go under there again!

viperrmk

Ford just says that so they can save there *** if the jack slips or something.

This is how I do it. (From wingman75)

The red dots are where the jack stands go. The arrow is where the floor jack goes.

takotruckin

ford says not to jack at the diff because the stock floor jack is not very stable, and the car would be likely to fall if both the rear wheels are off the ground..

when i do anything to the car, i either use a two post lift, or a drive on alignment rack. (being a tech in a shophas it's advantages)