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XR Jack/Stand Points?

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Patrick McVeigh
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Location: Toronto, ON
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XR Jack/Stand Points?
July 30, 2006 04:49PM
One thing that always bugs me when I'm lifting the car is the absence of a good place to put a jackstand up front on an XR. I always end up using the beam-locating post-things out back, and some spot on the subframes up front. So, since I am flipping the car over again sometime soon to finish the welds on the new rocker panels and to paint the underside, I wanted to weld on some pipe to provide a better place for jackstands. Buuut, the factory jack point is kinda cheesy looking...any bright ideas as to where the best place will be?

Underside of Skye's car for reference:



I don't want to do "pin" stands, but like the idea of welding in a piece of pipe about the right diameter to fit into the saddle of my jackstands to let it pivot easily when jacking both ends up simultaneously...
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PAddy
Patrick McVeigh
Ultra Moderator
Location: Toronto, ON
Join Date: 12/21/2005
Age: Midlife Crisis
Posts: 358

Rally Car:
Student Loans



Re: XR Jack/Stand Points?
August 03, 2006 07:29PM
I found some images of some frame rail reinforcing plates which David Godfrey rivnut-ed in to stop it from collapsing under jacking up front. I think I'll just weld in some plate in a similar location and call it good - just have to remember to always jack the front first when doing both ends up in the air. Which reminds me, I need to cut open those damn beam posts in the back to get at one of the spun captive nuts which won't let me get the damn plate off.
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