Look in here:

http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=396637

I'd trust what Shoebox said.

 

stick to mopars. The jack in the back is a sissor jack that has a slot in it to jack on the pinch welds on each side. The plastic pads are for a frame lift. A lift has flat pads that push evenly on the plastic which makes it very strong. A standard jack don't have a flat pad so it will crush the plastic if you are not careful. That is why you can put a piece of wood between the jack and the plastic pad and jack that way.

 

You don't believe Shoebox either, I take it. It's OK to jack on the pads, but if you want to use a piece of wood it's OK with me.

 

The Eastwood Company sells inserts for floor jacks.... one with a slot that allows you to use the floor jack on the pinch weld, and another with a flat rubber pad that works great on the black plastic blocks. I have both of them and they work well.

And, ramps made from 2x10's are good for raising the front off the ground so a jack will fit, or for allowing you to get a low nose up on ramps.....

http://cjcfo.fbody.com/members/injun.../DCP03111b.jpg

 

Well, if there's any misunderstandings about the black jack pads, just use the K-member like I do.

And, as a sidenote, when I got my rims put on the guy jacked the car up on both sides (one side at a time, of course) with the black plastic pads.

And my fenders and underbody are just fine to this day.

 

In the haynes,and chilton's manual it shows them jacking the front of the car by those plastic pads.

 

Wow.....what a flashback. This one got dug out from a deep dark corner of the internet.

 

I have the low profile plastic Rhino Ramps. They do OK (sometimes they slide as the driveway to the garage is painted).

I also went and picked up a low profile aluminum jack. Best $99 I ever spent at Costco! Makes my life so much easier. With my old steel jack, I had to do each side individually.

 

Use the K-member or the frame rails if you want to do it one side at a time. I haven't used anything other than a lift for a while, but back when I did everything in the driveway I'd use the frame rails and put the jackstands under the inner portion of the control arms.

 

Hey, he's new and he knows how to use the search engine obviously, something even many "veterans" on the board find difficult

 

ever notice how the back bottom of the front fenders stick out a little on many f-bodies... its from jacking it up in the wrong spot. not that my method is probably right but i jack up 1 side at a time from the A arm about 6 inches back from the wheel and ive never had a problem

 

+1 on this I used it our boards was around 6 foot long, had about 4 or 5 inches of clearence when the board did come up.

 

i take two ramps and two cinder blocks and drive up on it. the nose will be about 4 feet in the air with plenty of room to work with.