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[jjleonard]

I've got an irritating Halfords trolley jack and axle stand kit - while the trolley jack will lift my mig high enough (380mm) to get axle stands under it at their lowest height, I can't get it high enough to use the second (higher) locking point on the stands.

Can someone advise on a SAFE way to raise the trolley jack height so I can use the higher setting on my stands? I can't comfortably get under the car on the lower setting, and as it looks like i'll have to do an ATF and filter change soon, I could use all the wriggle room I can get.

Cheers
John.

[Martin_1962]

Blocks of wood - seem to work used to do it a lot

[jjleonard]

Blocks of wood - seem to work used to do it a lot

Cheers - I'll have to dig some suitably heavy duty ones out. The last ones I used split as soon as they took the cars' weight!

[Marks DTM Calib]

Off cuts from fence posts work well

[Tawfield]

Id go along with the block of wood as long as your sensible with size,dont like Ive seen, use the convenient brick they can crumble.

[jjleonard]

Cheers lads.

Am I right in assuming there's no current maintenance guide on changing an autobox filter, or changing the ATF? The only guide I can see talks about removing the level plug and topping up that way, which might be a pain in the backside for 7 litres of ATF.

[Lazydocker]

Unfortunately that's the only way to fill up

[jjleonard]

Looks like I might have to do a howto when I do mine....  

[Andy B]

Off cuts from fence posts work well

My fence posts are concrete.  

I've got a short length of newal post which is excellent as an extention to my jack.  

[Welung666]

The safest way it to buy a bigger trolley jack I use a 6" x 6" chunk of oak cut at about 8", been using it years

[Loch View]

I've bought a 5 ton bottle jack to get the car higher up for the stands...works a treat  

[tunnie]

chunks of railway sleeper too, they just changed large sections of the line i use to concrete sleepers, i wonder if they will notice 1 or 2 sleepers missing from the massive piles on the side of the track  

[Agemo]

Daft question, why use axle stands? Surely ramps are ideal for this job?   :-/

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Daft question, why use axle stands? Surely ramps are ideal for this job?   :-/

With my car when I try to drive the car up the ramps (forward) various bits of the trim get in the way!

Therefore I always jack my car up steadily using blocks, axle stands and the ramps.

[tunnie]

Daft question, why use axle stands? Surely ramps are ideal for this job?   :-/

With my car when I try to drive the car up the ramps (forward) various bits of the trim get in the way!

Therefore I always jack my car up steadily using blocks, axle stands and the ramps.

I have done 2 ATF changes now, best way is using ramps, but use rear wheels.

Done an MV6 which is lower than normal, and that goes on fine if you reverse up...