How to Raise a Car with a Jack

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In this clip we're going to talk about the proper way to remove and replace a rear wheel anti-lock brake censor on a late model Ford Explorer. In this step we're going to talk about the proper way to chalk your front wheels, placement of your floor jack in jacking up the vehicle, and placement of our jack stands. I already have a chalk up in front of the vehicle. Being that we're going to jack the vehicle up like this, picture the back of my hand as the rear tires and the front of my hand as the back tires; we're going to be jacking it up this way. If we didn't block the front wheels the vehicle is going to want to roll away on us being that we're putting most of the weight in a forward direction and the tires are free spinning. What we're going to do is take a piece of wood, a brick, or an actual wheel chalk so that our vehicle doesn't roll away. Once you have the chalking process completed your going to slide your floor jack directly under the rear differential. Tighten my floor jack up and commence the jacking procedure. The only real necessity for jacking the vehicle up is so you can have enough room to perform the repair procedure underneath the vehicle. I'm going to take it up with my jack pretty much as high as I can and then slip my jack stands right on the axle housings to get the best support possible. Once I have it up high enough perform the repair on the vehicle I'm going to take my jack stands and slide them right in. As you can see I have the vehicle jacked up right on the center of gravity for this particular vehicle. I have it jacked up pretty high so I can go ahead and work on it. Your jack stand swill be adjustable. I'm going to demonstrate that right here. Slide the jack stand all the way up to meet the axle housing, right there. That's the passenger side. I'm going to go ahead and slide this one up to meet the driver's side. Once you have those where you want them its okay to go ahead and release the tension on your floor jack. As you can see it's seated where it should be and it's held up be the mechanical device that's built into the jack stands. Your not going to want to work underneath the vehicle just relying on your floor jack. There is a thirty cent seal in the bottom of this that holds the hydraulic pressure. You don't want to stake your life on that one. Your going to want to use jack stands to hold the vehicle up with heavy duty mechanical steel. That is the proper way to chalk the wheels, place your jack stands, and seat your vehicle on them.

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