Hi, I need to remove my wheels and get them refurbished. I have seen several posts on jacking and where to place the stands .My question is, do I start with the front 2 jacks or the back 2 ? Is there an order I should follow when raising and lowering the car ?
Should I raise it a few inches with all 4 jacks in place then progressively raise it to the point I can remove the wheels?
First time putting 4 stands in place. Any suggestions would be apprciated.

 

Since you don't have a flat tire, the safest way to remove all 4 wheels is to be parked in your garage with sufficient room to get around the car and remove the wheels. To do this safely, you will need 4 jack stands to support the vehicle.
1. Make sure that your car is in Park with the engine off and engage the parking brake.
2. Loosen, but do not remove, all the lug nuts. Don't use power tools. Instead, use the socket and lug wrench that came with the car so you don't bugger the outer shell of the lug nuts.
3. I prefer to jack the front first, because the parking brake keeps the car from rolling backwards.
4. Use the 2 plastic wedges that came with the car to chock each front wheel so the car does roll while jacking and fall off the jack. If you don't have them, use something else to chock the wheels.
5. When the car is jacked up to the desired height in order to remove the wheel, insert a jack stand directly next to the jack and remove the jack. Never leave the car only on the jack, as that is unsafe.
6. Remove the pre-loosened lug nuts and then remove the wheel.

Repeat the above for the remaining wheels.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. Just to confirm, I can jack the front left side off the ground and place a stand, then the right front side off the ground and place another stand. Then I repeat it on the back. My concern is with having it on the 2 front stands and then lifting one side on the back leaving one wheel on the ground. Or is there a spot to jack the front to raise the 2 wheels together and is there a place in the back to jack both rear wheels up together ?

 

I wouldn't raise the front and then raise the rear. Lifting the rear while the front is on jackstands will put forward pressure on those jackstands as the rear is being raised and can cause the jackstands to fall forward and result in major damage to the front of the car. I think it's a lot safer to raise one side and then the other side.

The only jacking points that I'm aware of are on the sides, which raise one wheel at a time.

When I had my wheels refurbed, I removed one side (front and rear) at a time because I couldn't fit more than 2 wheels in my other car. I left it on the jackstands until I got those wheels back, reinstalled them, and then jacked up the other side, removed the wheels, and had them refurbed. I had two done at a time, and all 4 matched perfectly.

 

+1

 

thank you, sounds like a plan. Getting it out of storage tomorrow so should be on jacks soon.

 

I've always jacked the rear up by putting the jack under the differential. Gets both wheels off the ground easily. I haven't done this on the XK though. Is that bad?

 

That'll work on a vehicle with a solid rear axle, but I wouldn't do that on an X150. With an independent rear suspension, the rear wheels will stay on the ground until the car is lifted beyond the limit of travel of the rear suspension. The hanging weight of the wheels and tires might put excessive forces on the axle bearings and suspension bushings and damage them.

I'm an old school, half-fast shade tree mechanic from back in the day, and not a car tech, so this is just my guess. But if it was OK to jack the car up using the differential, the Owner's Handbook would say so.

 

Stuart,
While I agree in theory with what you're saying, everybody that's jacking a side up is doing the exact same thing in allowing the suspension to go to full extension. Even the factory jack does this. You jack the wheel up from a non-suspension point until the wheel is off the ground, just as you would changing a flat. There are also numerous folks who jack their cars up over the winter to take the weight off the suspension and tires without any issues. I don't think that full suspension extension is as big an issue as it's made out to be.
I'll also say that I do not leave a car "hanging" for any great length of time, but I do not worry about fully extending the suspension when jacking a car up.

jm.02

 

It's one thing to leave one side hanging while changing a flat, but I'm not going to find out if there's no risks in jacking up the differential and leave both sides hanging for a while.

I'd rather do it by the book and be safe, not sorry.

 

Agreed! On an independent rear suspension, I would not take the chance of breaking the differential housing by jacking the rear of the car up with it. A solid cross member, though........

 

Don't jack by the differential or front K member or by the pinch welds on the rockers as it's too easy to bugger something up. I put the front tires on a doubled 2x12, the bottom @ 2' long and the top 1'. Place the jack from the side at the two bolts for the K member support below the door hinge. Nice flat structurally strong point and it picks up the front and rear tires from one side. My jack has the big rubber puck so it doesn't try to slide. Jack stands go under the K member at the rear lower control arm pivot and by the front cross brace bolts for the rear. Once the first side is up, I slide the jack further and lift the second side. The jack rolls under the car as it lifts. Takes about three minutes to get the car lifted and secure and the stands are out of the way for almost all maintenance.

 

Congratulations! We're all dummies!
The answer to the OP's question was already in the Stickies!

It's under paragraph 8. MAINTENANCE
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...enance-227403/

Axle stand points XKR - RESOLVED

The moral of this story is: Don't reinvent the wheel. Always check the Stickies before posting a question, as it may have already been asked and answered.