My floor jack just manages to slide in between the bar and the body.View attachment 62784
I think this was discussed before, how do you get a jack on the front jacking point when the front sway bar is in the way? Making some sort of adaptor?
I don't get under the car until the front wheels (or the chassis if working on suspension) are on blocks.Mine does too but just barely, trying to make it safer.
Simple, put a block of wood between the bar and the lift point.This might be an unpopular opinion, but the front end of the car is very light, and that sway bar is a beefy piece of spring steel. Plastically deforming the sway bar would take way more load than the weight of the nose of the car could provide.
So did mine until that one time it slid out and the jack bent my pristine frunk floor.My floor jack just manages to slide in between the bar and the body.
Counterpoint: Yes, the swaybar could get bent but the swaybar is attached to the middle of the radius arm and the radius arm is attached to the chassis through the radius arm bushing. The radius arm is far more likely to bend than the swaybar and the bushing's isolator could easily be crushed as the load is transferred from the swaybar through the radius arm, then finally through the bushing's isolator to the chassis.
I was pointing out that there are far better choices than jacking a car via the middle of the longest, thinnest, suspension arm. Yes, the bushing should protect the isolator but why would you when there are better options that are just as easy?I'm not saying that it's the ideal way to jack a car, but with such a light nose, it seems harmless to me. Yes, it's possible that maybe something could happen, but it probably won't.
why would you when there are better options that are just as easy?
If you can't access the factory jack point use either of the radius arm mounts. Its a beefy piece of steel mounted directly to the main unibody rail and is designed to support suspension loads.
I prefer to jack the car from the sides using a pinch weld adapter. Works very nicely.
i agree Carl i love the tools and solutions on Xweb so nice one PaulD thats more like itYou guys disappoint me with your lack of amazing creativity. I was waiting for one of you to make a cool adaptor that went around the sway bar, made from parts you got at Home Depot. That's not to say your responses are not helpful, they are.
nice solution and a lovely clean car underneath Paul
I got a killer deal on it. was keeping an eye on Craig's list when it came out.Rod, I'll swap my FAZA snorkel for your lift.