Jacking up an LS

[highlander73]

What do you all use to lift your LS for doing work under the car or tire/brake work? Where does the stock scissor jack get placed? If you have a hydraulic floor jack, where do you place that? Are there exposed frame rails for those types of jacks? Where do you place the jack stands?

I'm pretty handy and want to do some maintenance myself (fuel filter, O2 sensor, etc) but have never lifted this car. Don't want to damage me or the car. Some cars have a specific point to place the jack; does the LS has such a point and even if so do you have to use that (how can you with an accessory floor jack?). TIA

 

[SoonerLS]

Whatever you do, DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, jack the car up by the suspension components; you could easily damage them.

The scissor jack is only intended for roadside emergency use, not for working on the car. It's entirely too unstable to be safely used for that. The lift points for that jack are in the rails under the rocker panels; see the Owner's Manual for exact locations. (If you don't have an Owner's Manual, you can get them from the Tech Section, which is pinned to the top of this forum.)

For the front end, there are two gussetted, vaguely egg-shaped protrusions from the front cradle which are suitable jacking points for a floor jack. They look like bare aluminum, but it's been awhile since I've jacked the front end up. One's behind and to the side of the oil pan drain plug (on the '03-'06 V8, at least).

Don't use this until someone else confirms it, but I recall the mount points of the rear suspension cradle as being lifting points for the rear end. Note that these are where the cradle mounts to the body of the car, not any piece of the suspension itself.

 

[mholhut]

See below...

 

[highlander73]

What manual is that? Seems pretty comprehensive. Thanks.

 

[SoonerLS]

By the looks of it, that'd be the official Lincoln LS Service Manual from Helm.

 

[mholhut]

It's also on the Service/Repair CD... which I have but is more difficult to take images from... although I probably could've pdf'd it...