Jacking the car up using the oil pan?

And wood?





Is this safe at all? I'm trying to remove the engine mount and manual says to take the weight off it, so jack the engine up by placing a piece of wood under the oil pan and jack it up.





How safe is this? Wouldn't the oil pan just bend up?Jacking the car up using the oil pan?
take a chain and a engine hoist.lift it a little.dont do it on the oil pan.it will put a hole in it.then you will need a oil pan and gasket.Jacking the car up using the oil pan?
If you have enough money to buy 200 oil pans, you might want to do this 200 times. Then if you use a kind of sturdy wood, you can even use the hole it could possibly make on the oil pan to make it seem as though you're in King's Island's Boomerang Bay and under the Jackaroo Falls! Then maybe, just maybe, it will all work out - you may not have a working car, but you will at least have experienced the refreshingly delightful jackaroo Falls right in your own garage.





This was my friend's attempt at being funny. My own answer is No, it's not safe and yes your oil pan will bend up badly.
It's perfectly safe as long as you partially lift and remove both motor mounts first. Do not try to jack up the pan while it's still hinged on one side. This will cause bending if a thin metal or actually break an aluminum pan.





When placing the block of wood under the pan be careful to miss the drain plug when lifting with a hydraulic floor jack.





Idealy it's best to lift the motor with a rented engine hoist from the top. Many motors have hooks on the intake maninold or near the bellhousing for this purpose.
Yea if the manual says it its fine. However make sure you use a thick piece of wood (like several layers of plywood) that covers the whole pan. The strength is on the edges. Also make sure the wood is not sitting up on the drain plug. Also make darn sure you do disconnect the engine mount and the engine is moving before cranking on the floor jack.
if the pan is in good shape, it won,t bend it. just take a 2x6 or a board and put on the pan and use a floor jack.i did that many of times.
It is safe. You're not trying to jack up the whole car, just the engine, and only slightly. I use a 1 foot long 2x10 for just this purpose.
not at all. u just use the jack to support the weight of the engine while the engine mount is off. just dont try to lift the car with the oil pan or it will bend.






u can do this but defenatly use a piece of wood large enough to cover most of the oil pan to distribute the weight. The oil pan would prob bot bend but put the wood on as many coners tht you can

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