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Hello All,
I am about to make my first foray into "under car" mechanical work and, thus, need to elevate the car and place it on jack stands. The car is a 1978 Silver Shadow II.
I have plenty of information that confirms that the appropriate place to put the floor jack to elevate the entire rear end at once is under the differential, and I've already experimented with this to get a feel for how the car "behaves" when being elevated.
What I have not confirmed definitively is where I should place the jack stands to keep things in the air. One resource I have states, "The basic monocoque structure is very robust, and can be safely lifted using a four point hoist on the structural portion of the sills behind the front wheel arches and in front of the rear wheel arches." I have had the car on a lift in this manner, but I want to confirm that the jack stands should be placed there as well.
What I intend to do, if this is confirmed as correct, is to place the jack stands just a bit forward of the rubber plug in the area noted on the attached photo as "Interior Sill." It's the area within the green figure, if you don't want to click to enlarge the image.
If anyone can confirm this placement or refute it and tell me where the stand should be placed, I would very much appreciate it. I wish to do great harm to neither my car nor myself.
Brian
I am about to make my first foray into "under car" mechanical work and, thus, need to elevate the car and place it on jack stands. The car is a 1978 Silver Shadow II.
I have plenty of information that confirms that the appropriate place to put the floor jack to elevate the entire rear end at once is under the differential, and I've already experimented with this to get a feel for how the car "behaves" when being elevated.
What I have not confirmed definitively is where I should place the jack stands to keep things in the air. One resource I have states, "The basic monocoque structure is very robust, and can be safely lifted using a four point hoist on the structural portion of the sills behind the front wheel arches and in front of the rear wheel arches." I have had the car on a lift in this manner, but I want to confirm that the jack stands should be placed there as well.
What I intend to do, if this is confirmed as correct, is to place the jack stands just a bit forward of the rubber plug in the area noted on the attached photo as "Interior Sill." It's the area within the green figure, if you don't want to click to enlarge the image.
If anyone can confirm this placement or refute it and tell me where the stand should be placed, I would very much appreciate it. I wish to do great harm to neither my car nor myself.
Brian
