how are you guys putting your MB on the jack stands?? my sears jack stands have Y-shaped tips and these don't fit the MB rubber nubs at all. any ideas..???

Those are for using a lift.

I put jack stands where the suspension pieces mount to the frame.

Check your PMs.

Doug

AC brand jack stands

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Ethan

Do you get jacks & jackstands EVERY Cristmas ?
You seem to have more than Sears.

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Manny, lots cheaper then having a dealer do the work or even and independent. Know your kidding!

I have two floor jacks (just that in the pictures once I have the car on jack stands I remove a floor jack to raise wheel/control arm). one floor jack is a small silver two ton that I bought years ago at Sears for not much.
The red Sears racing jack I bought on sale this past July for around eighty, I think it is a 2 or 2.5 ton rating, but if I had to do it over again I'd get a higher rated model for around forty dollars more.

The jack stands are just under $200 total, and I figure they wouldn't be hard to resell, so maybe not a bad investment.

Also I use FOUR wheel chocks.


I am very happy with the AC flat top jack stands but would rather be lifting the car with a high quality pair of AC six ton rated floor jacks.

nice!! since my sears jackstands dont have those flat ends, can i use a hockey puck (got many of those) ?? if not where can i get some solid wooden blocks like those???

btw, in between where Ethan has the 2 floor jacks, i saw a little nub that sticks out in the middle. looked like a decent spot to put my floor jack on.. ??

I have a haynes manual for my car that shows the two points on the front cross member as a good lifting point as shown in the pictures. I alternate a little bit at a time between the two floor jacks (even and steady) until I get enough height to insert the jack stands.

I would be scared to use the hockey pucks on a curved surface, anywhere the hockey pucks don't have complete surface contact would be dangerous.

Hopefully you'll get other responses on how to lift your car with the jacks and stands you have.

Thanks Ethan.

I think i found another way. since i won't be needing to dismount teh wheels, I will get a set of rhino ramps (i figure 6 inches of clearance should be alright for most maintenance work) and use those. nice & easy

You can never have too many! What I wish that I had would be the old-fashioned (but superior) screw-type jackstands with the rod extensions that fit in the jack holes on a 107, as shown in the MB manuals. I never get under a car without a jackstand and at least one backup hydraulic jack and a rim or two.

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ProV1, a hockey puck works fine in a Sears floor jack cup when jacking under the lift pads. Not sure if I would use a hockey puck with jack stands though ... it would depend on their configuration. The AC brand jack stands look ideal for supporting a MB under the lift pads. I prefer using ramps when I'm doing work which doesn't require removing the wheels ... drive up onto the front ramps and use a floor jack to lift the rear wheels onto the rear ramps.

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those pictures I posted were the set up I used to install a new steering knuckle new front wheel bearing and new brakes.

But I had to put he car up on a set of ramps first to remove the underbody front plastic shield.

Lifting a car at home is dangerous, got to be prepared for something to fail, the work I do when the car is on jack stands does not require me to get under the car.

I only get under the vehicle when the car is on ramps with wheel chocks and emergency brake on.

Safety first!

There's also a factory lift point to the rear of the oil pan on newer cars which permits you to elevate the front wheels.