Vehicle Lifting Points:
Whom do you Trust?
(By F.G. (Rick) Heath, Heath and Associates)
Reproduced with permission from Gears, July 2007 issue
Where do you get your lift point information? When you need to go under a vehicle to diagnose or perform required vehicle service,where do you obtain information for the placement of the lift adapter pads? Are you confident your sources are reliable?
If you believe you haven,t seen a vehicle you don,t know how to lift or that everything is just common sense, you,re destined for an accident. Don,t assume that lifting is the same from vehicle to vehicle.Unfortunately, this is often the statement heard from experienced service technicians: