WARNING!!! Fail In Progress!


...i got in a hurry rotating my tires, had the jack in the middle of the axle beam from the back and it slipped off, hit the (EDIT)charcoal canister. What appears to be oil has leaked out and now the fuel tank pressure sensor is hanging there loose fml!

 

fuel pump is on top that looks like the evap canister

 

thats not the fuel pump assembly. that is your charcoal canister

 

 

lol, those were under the front...i was still just getting it off the ground when it slipped that why its not totally ripped off or crushed haha

...well then thats good news for me at least...i was looking for a diagram/pic that would tell me what it was exactly but i was having trouble

 

the hanging wire is possible purge silonoid

 

you should see what I did to my Hahn IC when the jack slipped on me

 

or maybe fuel tank pressure sensor...... but idk all i can see is cracked evaperative canister

 

if you don't know, you're not supposed to jack the car from the torsion beam. and in general it's never a good idea to jack a car from something that moves. (not sure if you were just being lazy, or didn't know that.)

 

you CAN jack from the beam but i think he didnt center it

 

i'm not saying that you can't, i'm saying that you shouldn't. use the appropriate jack points, and the car gets up just as quickly, and there's much less risk of the jack slipping off.

 

all im saying is paying 5 dollars for a rotation would of been alot better than the 400ish to fix this

 

where r we suppose to rise the rear on this car? thats the only strong spot i saw haha

 

there's a how to by halfcent that tells you how to jack the car.

 

its a good point to raise from but you have to center that jack on the beam, which you didnt do and found what can happen. either that or on the rocker panel behind the side skirts

 

use the floor pan.

 

ive rotated my tires plenty of time, never had an issue before, but yeah like i said, was in a hurry, and didnt get the jack under the beam far enough so it came off

 

haahahaha tell the masses they must know the truth

 

it's never a good idea to jack from a moving part on a car... yes, the torsion beam works great... but you shouldn't be using it.

 

The last time i had my tires rotated was at the dealer for $20, and I got a free cup of coffee and the car washed while I waited. A lot easier than doing it myself

 

damn im sorry!
Working at a car shop FTW! paid 10 bucks for snow tires swapped on my rims, and an alignment

and i used a lift!

 

There is, but it recommends lifting one side of the rear at a time just in front of the rear control arm mount. I actually use the mount itself when changing my tires over to winters, it's only on the jack for maybe a minute so jackstands in this case are pointless. As for rotating though, I honestly don't know how to get the entire rear of the vehicle off the ground in one shot.

The front you can use the engine cradle cross-member; make sure you're good and stable though (or use the little "notch" just to the left of centre) if it slips even a bit you better have a backup radiator handy. As for the rear, as he said you should NOT be using the torsion beam, but that still begs the question "where do you jack this car in the rear to get both wheels off the ground at the same time"....I think the answer is you don't without using that torsion beam...or am I missing something?

 

I've always found it easiest to just do one side at a time (assuming you have directional tires here). Just lift it up from the stock jack points, switch tires, go to other side, repeat. Safest way as far as I can tell.

 

^^ but ya dude that sucks. id probably end up doing the same thing. thats why im glad i get my tires from americas tire so they rotate them for free

 

2x ^^