Mysterious whine after driving in heavy freezing rain (recording)

Always good for a descriptive pic.

 

Yeah, God bless that guy with the fish-eye lens that snapped and posted that pic. Here, a few years back.

The rear safety stand points are easier to see in practice. There's an oblong plastic insert in a hole right there, and an extra layer of heavy gauge steel plate lapping over the regular sheet metal. The oblong hole's for some locator pin during shipping or assembly I think? Dealerships typically install those plastic plugs during PDI I was told (one was missing on ours).

Anyway, there's a sort-of hump of heavy plate there, and it works well with the cradle of a safety stand.

 

I just use the rear beam.

The only real reason I jack the back up and need to access anything is the wheels or brakes, so the beam works well and is level.

But your location is robust as well.

 

I got a family member that needs to be dropped off in the Bay Area next Sunday (31st), driving back I do drive pass the city where your at. If your schedule suits the hours of 1pm to 4pm for front tire caliper pins lube, let me know. That will definitely help me out.

 

Let me check with the boss and I’ll get back to you.

 

This sounds like it has the potential for a New Year's Eve gathering in the making?

Let me know if you need another vehicle onsite to justify the block of time being requested

 

I’ll let the missus weigh in our plans.

Sometimes the best laid plans go to waste.

But I’ll put my salesman shoes on .

 

It's gotta reach the front point, lol. Rear, I agree: you squander a lot of any jack's travel just getting to the jacking point.

Over the years I've come up with a few strategies. One was to build a cradle of 2x4's on edge, held together with threaded rods, put my jack up on that. And a couple of sheets of particle board, matching dimension, to lay on top. But it's a pain to drag out.

With the rear jacking point now I'm using a cheapo 3 ton jack with pretty good range, and to reduce it's initial travel, I put a square piece of 2x4 in the steel crade, on the flat, and a hockey puck atop that. The jack itself has a spec'd max lift of 21" IIRC, I suspect it's more like 20" with load. It cost me $69 one boxing day, lol.

Here's a few pics. The steel cradle with shims I use at the rear, and the rubber pad with shims, used on the front. With the front I first raise a bit without shims, then lower, then put in the shims. The first raise tends to leave the car a little higher, allows the shims to fit.

 

…nice video, however FGS get that guy some Nitrile gloves - and he needs to get the Lefty = Loosey, Righty = Tighty sorted out once and for all! (…off to wash hands! )

 

Deluxe-Jacking-R-Us? (Nice job, @Mendel Leisk )

 

Mine won't take long, the block of time is the window I can possible arrive because with all the traffic to be in sf New Year's Eve. There's no way I can arrive at a specific given time with that traffic. I'm hoping this won't take no longer than 30 min for both front wheels.

 

Yeah it shouldn’t take long.

I’ll ask tonight once I get home from work and sharing the Prolong setup with another member here.

Trying to spread more holiday cheer.