Jacking up your car with FI exhaust
 

I hate the fact you lose the ability to jack up the rear of the car using the rear pumpkin as a jack up point. The FI cans are in the way now and I have use the side jack up points for each side..

anyone find any other way using maybe like a long thin block of wood on your jack or something? Just curious..

I never use the pumpkin to lift the car. I always use the jack points.

I put a small dent in one of the pipes finding this out... :bowrofl:

Just get yourself a 2"x8" or 2"x10" to drive the rear tires up onto. Depending on your floor jack you may want to sandwhich two together to get the car a little higher up. Then you shouldn't have any issues at all lifting the rear.

Trip -- so how do you get both sides up? I'd be uncomfortable lifting up one corner then going around to lift up the rear. I think it'd be easier/safer to lift both sides at once and lower the car onto jack stands... eliminating the chance of knocking the car off of the jack stand on one side while you lift the other.

Or weld some pipe in on the rear bumper area. Slide the jack under and done.

I don't, I always raise one side to the lowest point of the jack stand, and carefully raise the other then go to back to the first jack and raise that only to return to the second and complete the raising of that jack stand to level the car. I know its quicker just Jacking up the third member but thats just me. I have concerns about lifting the car from the rear end. Maybe I'm just paranoid.

Pics?

Makes sense. I don't think there's any issue with lifting it from the front or rear. I've done that on all my previous cars and the manual does point out floor jack points for the front and rear.

I would be nervous about using your method with my jacks... I have 12,000lb truck jack stands that I use because I feel safer with them but their lowest position is a good bit higher than the average car jack stand.

do you know what holds the rear diff in? only three bolts, the 2 in the front are vertical but the one in the in horizontal, plus the horzontal stud goes into a fluid filled mount. THIS IS NOT A GOOD JACK POINT!!

The differential is the rear Jack point and it is very strong. A garage will use this Jack point If you take it to a garage and they need to place a lowered cars on a lift. Makes me a little happier I've got the berks cbe even though I like the fi cbe very much. Was thinking fi one day.

I thought the rear diff was the jackiNg point for a lot of cars. The side were just for changing a flat tire...

Figured I'd bump this up to get some more solutions to jacking up the car with the FI exhaust.

I suppose using 2x8's in combination with a floor jack would probably be the best solution? Without having looked closely at the included jack, why does it not fit on the pumpkin with the FI exhaust but a floor jack does?

I think that any modification you do to your car will come with some consequences....

However, I seen a lot of people and shops use the rear diff. as the jacking point. But like Triple's said, I'm a little paranoid about that too.

you could always use two floor jacks at once. pump each one a couple times and alternate. of course, this requires you 'having' two floor jacks.

I just jack one side up, put a jack stand under and do the same to the other side. Did that with my STi. too. No issues for me.

2x8s work great.

^ sure do....i use them

That's somewhat sounds like going round a long way to me. We all have different techniques but I don't have that much patience so jacking up the third member is what works for me. Anyways you're not paranoid, I should say you're very careful and particular.

other options?
 

My brother destroyed a pacesetter exhaust,Im going with the a kooks

I thought this was an FI hate thread when I read the title....

I now have this problem. FI exhaust but don’t want to damage it trying to somehow jack by the differential. If I have my front wheels on stands (and ramps underneath), would it be safe to jack from the side rear points to put them on stands 1 by 1? I have pinch weld adapters for both the jack and stands.

Put at 2 by 4 block of wood on your jack and jack it up from under the diff. That is what I do.

Thanks! Didn’t really extra 2” of clearance was all that was needed

So from the attached photo, do I need a new lower profile jack? Can’t push it any further up due to mufflers, so can’t get it under diff. Can’t get to it from the side due to distance and angle of jack arm while raising. I’ve heard about some folks lifting from a rear side to get the lowest jack stand height under, then switching sides, but the side instability creeps me out a bit. Front is already on stands.
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I forgot to tell you, I drive up on 2x6's nailed together to get the car up in the air enough to get the jack under it. It is two 2x6 about 36in long and then two 2x6's nailed cross ways over the top of the other two. It makes a step up. That is what I use to drive my car on to do oil changes.

I have a nice wooden block, trimmed down to fit here.
Either derived from a 4x4 or something...but works well :tup:

For the pinch rails, I use a hockey puck with a slit cut into it. For the rear diff with FI style exhaust canisters, I stack two hockey pucks on top of my jack to clear the pipes. My low profile jack fits under my diff at stock height, but if additional clearance is needed, you can always drive up on a 2x to gain clearance for your floor jack like several people have mentioned.

For the record, the diff is actually the garage jack point that is identified by Nissan in the factory service manual. So no one should be suggesting that it is not an acceptable jack point.

Problem solved

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Just adding that the Greddy Evolution GT (dual exhaust) has the same problem, where the cans don't allow my floor jack to reach the diff. I go one side at a time also.

So one entire side, insert 2 jack stands on lowest setting then repeat on opposite side? I’m doing brake flush and need all 4 wheels off at same time.