Jacking entire side of vehicle

Darwins Child

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I was naive enough to think that it might be easier and quicker and slicker to use the emergency jack, but I will take the advice of those who have more experience.

I have two floor jacks, one of which is low profile, and two sets of jack stands.

Additionally, using the top of the emergency jack as a guide, last spring I machined (using hand tools) two 2"x2"x3" blocks of aluminum whose bottom slots sit over/onto the tops of the jack stands that I used when I changed the oil shortly after we bought our vehicle. The combination worked very well. (BTW, that circle on top of the block is the top of a glued-in stack of rare earth magnets that hold the block up against the vehicle until the vehicle is lowered onto the stand.)

As Dirk suggests, I'll try using the low-profile jack and one of the blocks to raise the entire side of the vehicle. If the block+jack is too high to get onto the jacking point, as I did when I changed the oil, I will drive the front wheels/tires onto two pieces of 2x12 to get vehicle off the floor by another 1-1/2". Etc., until I can use the combo to raise the entire side of the vehicle. Hopefully I won't have to lift the front very high before the rear comes up a bit so that I can quickly do the swap.

If that method does not work, as I would have had to do with the emergency jack, I'll use the floor jack to raise the rear, remove the wheel, install the spare wheel/tire, lower the vehicle, raise the front, etc.

AFAI can measure and estimate by eyeball and hope, the OEM sport rear on the front is going to look OK and not protrude appreciably (otherwise I would not go through this procedure), but before shelling out for two rears, I've got to confirm that this is in reality the case. And there is no other way that I can think of to do that other than by installing a rear on the front and taking a look (and a few photos so I don't have to rely on my aged memory after I've returned everything to original configuration).

Thanks again.

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