Jacking Up Car to Replace Brake Pads

Video Transcript

"MARK BLOCKER: And in this segment, we're going to cover jacking the vehicle part two. Okay. So, now, we got the vehicle jacked up to about the capacity of the scissors jack. What I want to do is place a jack stand underneath the frame of the vehicle and that's going to support the weight and give us a good stable platform and then it'll lower the jack down to where the jack stand is supporting the vehicle. I'm going to leave the jack there, however, as I add a safety feature. That way, I've got two items supporting the load there--in here in case one fails, you always got a back up. Okay. I place that jack stand right up underneath the front sub-frame. On these unibody cars, they only have a section of the frame that runs down through the front support and then it turns into a unibody, hence, the body being the frame and then it picks up a rear sub-frame. So, I place the jack stand underneath the location point right where the front suspension connects to that unibody frame and that's where I'm going to rely on to support the weight of the car and the working load. So, then we're just going to lower the jack down and place the weight onto this jack stand but we'll go ahead and leave the jack in position. So, please watch our next segment and we'll cover the jacking procedures used with the floor jack."