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hey guys welcome back to the channel i know i had a few requests recently about guys uh wondering
how i jack up my car how i support it when i'm working underneath the car so today i'm going
to do this quick video that's going to show you how to lift your 2is or any is or any toyota car
or truck or suv they basically all use similar jacking points and similar way to jack it up so
i'll show you guys that today so before we really get started uh this is how to jack the car up
using a hydraulic jack or you know one of these jacks i got here so i've been using my us general
harbor freight one forever this thing i bought it probably for like 80 or 90 it's actually a piece
of crap i mean it leaks all the time i have to put hydraulic or brake fluid in it every time it leaks
just to top it off so i don't really trust it to hold up anything i trusted the jack up but after
i jack it up i put in jack stands so i would not really recommend this but all these hydro jacks
i've ever used they end up leaking i've got like a hybrid steel aluminum one from craftsman and that
one leaks also so it's just kind of the nature of the beast these things uh you know the seals
inside are crap they're china crap anyway yeah they don't really hold up over time i know some
people have had good reviews or good experience with the harbor freight's daytona line they sell
like a daytona professional line and it's a steel jack so that thing is heavy as hell it's hard to
tell the lug around but for professional use and something like if you have a shop where
you're using it all day and every day it might be worth it but you know for the occasional once or
twice a week that i use this one this is good i've had it for maybe eight or nine years now
first thing is you know jack stands i've got these i forgot where i got these these might have
been for they're not from harbor freight i think they're from like an auto parts store i must have
gotten them on sale a long time ago and i also i also have a set of more heavy duty four ton
uh craftsman ones here these ones i usually use like on the van or if i have to jack the car up
higher or if i need to jack all four wheels up i use this one so my recent uh jacking videos for
my sienna and my one is i got some few comments about some products that they actually make now
that help you jack the seam up so i ended up picking up two of them just to try out
i've been so used to using my wooden blocks for the last 15 years that i didn't even know stuff
like this existed until someone mentioned it in the comments and i went on amazon and ordered two
of these babies the first one i ordered was the hockey puck style one where it has a slit in it
it's a pretty heavy duty you know it's about twice as thick as a regular hockey puck so it's perfect
for what we do we don't want to have that failure like that gsf guy he put two pucks together
and then it slipped off and destroyed his door so this one is perfect for that so it
you basically remove the old rubber one you put it in there and it fits right inside of there
and it doesn't slip out so if it slips it'll stay within this little groove of your jack
and then this other one i picked up this aluminum one with it actually has magnets and it's got a
piece of heavy duty plastic inside that kind of wedges up against there but the magnetic thing
is cool because you can stick it there and it sticks to your seam so this one fits right in the
in between two and these were pretty affordable i mean i think this guy was only 11 and this one
was a dollar more 12. i just wanted to try both of them out because they're gonna be pretty good
tools for me at least because i use both jacks all the time so having two of them is perfect
you know one rubber one and then one metal one i'll test out the rubber one for the front right
now and we'll go ahead and stick that on here and find the seam so on the 2is it's not really marked
anywhere where the jack point is but i'll show you guys underneath in a little bit where it is
on my sienna they actually have a little arrow on the side skirt that shows you where the jacking
point is some of the other newer cars may have it but i know the 2is doesn't have it
when you guys jack these cars gotta be make sure you know your clearance between your jack and your
fender you don't want this thing to ever rebound and put a big ass dent in your
fender uh luckily this jack doesn't do that but some people put like a rubber sleeve or
maybe like a pool noodle around here just to protect their paint
so getting underneath you can see where you jack it up from so you basically look
at that seam right there and you'll see the triple bead or the triple stamped seam that's
where the factory reinforcement point is in between those two little notches and that's
designed for the factory jack so now that we're using this puck we want to make sure that puck
fits right up into that groove so you basically just jack it up make sure it's seated into there
and you kind of yeah you get it right into and then it as long as it touches the both
sides and gets distributes the pressure evenly you're good there so you jack it up from there
and then back here i always mount my jack stand right on that frame rail that's the reinforced
portion of that frame rail and i usually put that piece of wood just so i don't mar up my metal and
put any kind of indentations or marks on my metal i've made the mistake before of trying to jack it
up right there where those two little plugs are that's your floor pan so you don't want to jack
that spot up that's gonna put a big ass dent in there and damage your thing and then the rest of
this frame rail i don't really recommend mounting anything on that frame rail and i'll show you
guys a little clip from my one is where i made a mistake even though i was preaching not to put a
jack stand on there so after all that preaching i was doing about not using that frame rail to
jack up my car i ended up doing that on this sport cross when i was pressure cleaning under
the car and look what i did i bent that frame spot right there where i put the jack stand i initially
had it with the jack and the jack stand but then i took the jack down to use it on the other side and
i screwed this it didn't really do much damage it put an indention from the jack stand right there
on the back side i'm going to test out this metal one as i
told you guys i have two magnets on it so it just sticks to your
seam kind of let it sit and then you can just line your jack up and get it in there
as you can see i put the jack stand right along the little frame rail here like i said i don't
recommend when i show you that clip earlier using that frame rail back here this whole area right
here is reinforced on this side because this is basically where they put the two post jack
when they're actually in the service shop that's where they jack it up from so you got to make sure
that you jack it up from the same area or you put the jack stands in the same area there i
would rather have that jack back here in this area because there's more room to work with it's just
because this jack is so wide that i can't jack up along here and get to that spot if i jacked it up
from like the rear differential or the rear jack center jack point then i can probably use this
side but since my car's too low and the jack doesn't reach down far enough i usually never
jack it up from the middle back area subframe so we'll go on the other side and jack this up and
man i forgot about the unintended consequence of jacking the rear really high the front goes above
the ground too since on these cars you don't ever rotate the tires front and back i forgot all about
that for my honda days when we used to rotate tires and we just jacked the rear or the front
really high and both the whole side goes up so one thing with working on the rear you want to put one
of these blocks under the wheel right here just because the front doesn't have a parking brake
you have to wedge it with something so the car doesn't roll on you if you get it too high or
that there's any kind of rolling you know forward so you want to get that little two by four just
to keep it from rolling forward a little bit up here so on this side i'm going to jack it up a
little bit differently than on the other side i'm not going to use the frame rail actually
jack it up from that reinforced spot that way it gives me a little bit more room up here to put
that jack stand close to the frame and closer to the back versus the other side so i'm just going
to line it up with the reinforcement i'm using the puck on this side just to get it jacked up
so on this side you can see where i mounted it right here to the reinforcement i was talking
about using that puck so that all the weight is on that puck right now it gives me a little bit
more room to mount this guy right here as you can see right there to the frame rail and it
allows me to push it closer to the back of the vehicle so that way it gets a good secure spot
no risk of falling down so that's basically how you jack stand the rear hey guys thanks
for watching all the way to the end of this video and i hope you guys learned something
about jacking these cars up and uh be careful and safe out there when you're doing this uh i never
jack the car up and get under the car unless i have one jack stand and a jack or two jack stands
or maybe a wheel underneath just in case something ever happens because you never know like even with
those harbor freight ones that's the way the welds split and that you could potentially
cause the car to fall on top of you especially if you're under the car so i always have
like two safety points where when i'm jacking up or working under the car so you know just
keep that in mind when you're doing this uh i know this this video probably took a lot longer than i
expected with me explaining all the little things but i hope you guys learned something from it and
if you haven't done so already like the video uh subscribe to your channel if you're new to your
channel and you know you're just learning stuff here because i have a bunch of 2is
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that's interesting content anyways uh thanks for watching guys i'll see you guys next time