Rasta7 Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 I need to raise my car high enough to get fully under it. I have access to a lift but it's not a drive onto model. It's the type that lifts "normal" cars by their jacking points / sills. Can I lift the car with this in any way? Are there any other lifting points other than the ones you would use for normal jacking up? I wondered if it was possible to lift the car by it's outer chassis rails running down the side between front and rear wheels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative lapsedtheorist Posted September 14 Area Representative Share Posted September 14 Oakmere use a big two-post lift with four arms when they’ve done work on my car… so you should be OK I would have thought. They have one of the arms just behind the front wishbone and the other at the very back of the floor under the drivers seat… and it seems to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drumster Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 I have a scissor lift with 4 arms; front 2 are under the rear lower wishbone mount and the rears as mentioned above. It very often stays on the lift over the winter whisltI gradually service it and all seems ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Golf Juliet Tango Posted September 14 Area Representative Share Posted September 14 Lots of garages will lift a Seven on a two post lift. It isn't a problem in the slightest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasta7 Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 Thanks everyone, question answered. Just needed to know where to lift from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Kay Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 There's a recent thread about where to lift Sevens and support assemblies which help.... Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan R Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Is the alternative rear lifting point'at the very back of the floor under the drivers seat' still feasable with lowered floor? or with just one lowered floor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAT170 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Yes, okay for lowered floor cars. Cropped photos attached from a builder's Open Day at Gatwick a couple of years ago. This lowered floor car was built at Gatwick and was being inspected. Note that large, clean rubber pads used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Blandin Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 (edited) I’ve got lowered floors and have no problems with my lift. The rear pads go under the front A frame bushes and, if I want to work on those I move the forward and put a short scaffold board under the floors. No problems… Well, there is one problem. When you have a lift, the default position for a Seven is on it and you are a fiddling’ and a fettling’ all the time! Edited September 17 by Nigel Blandin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miker7 Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 crikey - your garage is bigger than my house #jealous I'm not an expert on this, but if i was jacking on the lowered floor (Which seems wrong to me generally) i'd be trying to get the pad under the corner, you've then got a corner with aluminium in three directions so unlikely to bend which i'd assume is stronger than a general thin floor area which might flex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Blandin Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Yeah, good sized old barn and a lot of recycling and weekends! I normally avoid the floor altogether, but to access the front A frame mounts you sort of have to go there. By spreading the load with a board across the whole car the point load is very small- remember, there is very little weight at the back of an empty Seven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerobod - near CYYC Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 6 minutes ago, Nigel Blandin said: remember, there is very little weight at the back of an empty Seven. My R400D has around 50% of it's weight on the rear wheels when empty, 54% with a 75kg driver and half a tank of fuel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Blandin Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 50% of not a lot is quite a bit less… I put the front pads just behind the mountings. If the rear ones are just in front of the front A frame brackets, across both floors ( which are folded and rigidly attached) under a 250mm wide scaffold board, 35mm thick there is no creaking or deformation when lifting…I can lift it clear of the board from the rear tube easily to reposition it, so it isn’t that heavy. Like I said, the rear pads are normally under the front brackets, so if and only if you need to work on them, as I did last week do I take this course of action. When at Snetterton the week before I went over the kerb before the bombhole and walloped the floor under my ass with no ill effects to me or the floor- I am happy it can take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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