How to find the lift points on a vehicle?
I'm a new line tech at a shop and nobody seems to want to help me I've tried looking to the internet but can't find much. Can you please give me a descriptive way to find lift points on both types of frame. Unibody and whatever the other type is I can't remember I work at ford so its mostly Ford's I work on.
There's usually a spot toward the front and back along the edge of the unibody seam that has some kind of tab(s) to indicate where it's stronger and designed for jacking. On trucks or cars with a frame, you concentrate mostly on getting the vehicle's center of gravity lined up with the center of the hoist and the place the hoist pads wherever you can get a good safe spot on the frame.
BTW, you should really go and talk to your service manager about the lack of help, if someone gets hurt, you need to cover your but.
Only the car manual of each model or type of car has this information. Not everything is online. As to no one willing to help you, you need to find work somewhere else. Do not guess. The vehicle can be damaged or can fall out of the lift.
Cars will have a detent on the rocker panel lower lip, called the pinchweld.
Kind of funny that the manager won't show you, since the shop would have to pay for repairs.
They are usually marked by indentations, but not always the case.
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