Alternate Jacking Points

[JToroPaz]

Anyone know a place to jack the rear of a 182 that isn’t the original jacking point on the sills, or the rear axle beam?

I’m replacing the rear shocks, the rear jacking points were mangled when I got the car I don’t trust them so I need an alternative. I normally use the rear axle. Only problem is I need to compress the rear suspension slightly while taking the shocks off. So I need to jack up first from somewhere that isn’t the sill, then compress the suspension from the rear axle. I just can’t figure out where that ‘somewhere that isn’t the sill’ is

I had a look through other posts about jacking points but couldn’t find an answer, sorry if this has been asked before

Thank you in advance for any insight!

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Are you using an alternative jack than the factory one? Put a piece of wood on it and use that to distribute the load better onto the sill?

 

[Louis]

Rear sills are solid

 

[Gus]

Jack up the rear beam, have the jack in the middle of the rear beam. Get two axle stands to put on the rear jacking points. Lower the jack on the rear beam so the rear of the car sits on the axle stands.

Now use the jack, still on the rear beam to take the slack on the rear beam. loosen the rear shock bolts a few turns, adjust the jack to fully take the slack on the rear beam so the weight of the beam isnt on the bolts. take bolts off.

When putting the rear shock bolts back in after replacing the shocks, make sure the bolts go in nicely with just your fingers. Its so easy to cross thread these so be careful.

 

[JToroPaz]

Are you using an alternative jack than the factory one? Put a piece of wood on it and use that to distribute the load better onto the sill?

Yeah just a regular rolling jack, true but the sills are quite mangled so it’s tricky to get anything to sit nicely on them

 

[JToroPaz]

Jack up the rear beam, have the jack in the middle of the rear beam. Get two axle stands to put on the rear jacking points. Lower the jack on the rear beam so the rear of the car sits on the axle stands.

Now use the jack, still on the rear beam to take the slack on the rear beam. loosen the rear shock bolts a few turns, adjust the jack to fully take the slack on the rear beam so the weight of the beam isnt on the bolts. take bolts off.

When putting the rear shock bolts back in after replacing the shocks, make sure the bolts go in nicely with just your fingers. Its so easy to cross thread these so be careful.

The actual method I’m good on (but thank you still). What I ideally need is a place that isn’t the sill to sit the jack stands on. It’s that or potentially bend the jacking points back into shape even if it’s just for one use and get them redone later

 

[Matt Cup]

The actual method I’m good on (but thank you still). What I ideally need is a place that isn’t the sill to sit the jack stands on. It’s that or potentially bend the jacking points back into shape even if it’s just for one use and get them redone later

Bend em back then bolt a bit of box section behind them 👍

 

[JToroPaz]

Bend em back then bolt a bit of box section behind them 👍

That’s a plan, I’ll give it a crack this weekend

 

[Matt Cup]

Here are my fronts, but a bit of fiddling and you can do something similar with the rear.

 

[gudger12345]

i was tempted to fit these to my ph1 when all the welding work was undertaken but i decided to just jack off the front wishbones.

 

[G. Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

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Here are my fronts, but a bit of fiddling and you can do something similar with the rear.

That's a brilliant idea! I know what I'm doing when the weather gets a bit warmer

 

[Matt Cup]

That's a brilliant idea! I know what I'm doing when the weather gets a bit warmer

1 inch box section, a scrap of metal and a nut and bolt is all you need 👍

 

[dann2707]

but i decided to just jack off the front wishbones

Can I be next in line please 🥸

 

[Louis]

Can I be next in line please 🥸

@Daniel

 

[Daniel]

You’ve both commented next to one another, this is like some sort of Hadron Collider.

I just need that Leeds boy to comment now and my brain will actually explode.

 

[Louis]

You’ve both commented next to one another, this is like some sort of Hadron Collider.

I just need that Leeds boy to comment now and my brain will actually explode.

I'll collide with your atoms