Putting Jeep On Jack Stands

Attached the jackpoints from the jeep manual.

Putting jeep on jack stands.

Jack up the vehicle using a solid jacking point leaving enough room for the jack stand to support the car. Use this old school mechanics trick for safely jacking up your vehicle and supporting it with jack stands. Checkout the d e store for awesome jeep and d e me. So even getting the jeep up on four stands is going to require four separate lifts which is just so great when you need to put stands in place and want to minimize rotational load on the stands.

It s the location of the front jack stands i don t have my mind around. Many repairs and modifications require you to work under your car. If lifting just one wheel lifting just that corner of the vehicle is a good idea. Just take care to never use a jack or stand under the differential to jack up or hold the weight of the jeep.

The video above shows you where the jack and jack kit is located in your patriot how to assemble the components of the jack kit and safety precautions to take when using your jack. Most jeep jack kits include the jack a jack handle and a lug nut wrench. If you place the jack in the middle of one side you can easily jack up the entire side of the jeep to place both front and rear stand at the same time as long as your jack is big enough. If you are fortunate enough to have a lift skip this video.

For the rest of us we need to. If lifting the entire front or rear choose a jack point in the center of the front or rear suspension or frame.