do you guys use air tools to loosen the lugnuts or do you guys just use a standard wrench? you guys use an aluminum low profile racing jack?

 

Low profile jack and hand wrench and a torque wrench.

 

Use the tire jack to jack up one side then get a sandard jack to jack up the front or rear and use a regular wrench to take off or put on the lugs.

 

Another technique is to put planks in front of the wheels and then drive the car up onto them to get extra clearance for your jack. You can nail a couple of planks on top of each other like steps to get extra height:

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I loosen the nuts very slightly before I jack the car up. Its safer this way because it reduces the force needed when the car is on the jack.

 

Just take the car up from side to side, don't even bother with a front or back jack unless your only working on something at either end. You can jack up anywhere along the side skirt, just make sure it's on that pinch weld thing.

 

If you use the pinch weld as the jacking point, the scissor jack that came with the car is the best bet. I have seen people bend the weld by using a regular trolley jack on it.

 

+1 this is what I have always done. This is also a nice way to tighten your suspension pieces with the suspension loaded as you must when dealing with bushings.

I loosen the nuts with a breaker bar, and then drive the car onto the planks, then jack it up. For tightening suspension pieces after a full install where you need to have the suspension at ride hieght and weighted, I would drive up the planks and then onto a set of ramps, then jack up the rear so the car would be level. Lather, rinse repeat for the rear.

 

+1 on that one but I still do it

 

werd! me too

 

What I did was use a scrap of wood (say a 2x4x4) and cut a slice in it for the spot-welded seam on the bottom of the car. I also stapled a rubber pad to the top of it because I really cared about my car (and I didn't have a towel at the time...). This works well as you can set it on top of your trolley jack, and safely jack up the car pretty much anywhere on the pinch weld - just gotta make sure the car is being supported by the weld still and not the body on either side...

 

i drive to americas tire co and have them do it for free.

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jerkface that doesn't answer his question...and where's my coffee?

 

i dont trust any shops to rotate my wheels. i have an 05 sti lowered on DF210's. i use a standard hydrolic jack at kragen. loosen the wheel lugs, jack the car up from the front jack point and the whole side of the car lifts up (ie left front and left rear wheel), swap the wheelss, put lugs back on, drop, torque to spec, repeat for other side.

 

I just pick up the car by the front fender so a buddy can put the jack under the car and torque wrench . no air tools, air tools for lug nuts bad!!!!on my old car I had took it to pepboys and they over torqued the lugs. About a day after my front drivers side wheel flys off the car, the studs had busted off from them tightening with air tools. Luckly it was not at a busy time or place where anyone got hurt. So no air tools!

 

yea that is what i used to do to rotate my wheels when i lived near one. now they are kinda far away and i dont fully trust a shop taking off my volks. before that i used to just use a ghetto lug wrench and stomp on that thing. im just seeing whats the easiest/best way to undo the lugs. i know an aluminum jack would probably be the easiest to jack up a lowered subie with a lip as i used that to change my tranny fluid some time ago. thx for the responses...