How to Raise and Support 2004-09 Subaru Outback
Created on: 2018-04-25
How to raise and support your vehicle on 2008 Subaru Outback.
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step 1 :Raising and Supporting the Front of the Vehicle
- Place the jack underneath the front subframe
- Raise the vehicle with the jack
- Raise the front of the vehicle
- Place the jack stands underneath the frame, behind the front wheels
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step 2 :Raising and Supporting the Rear of the Vehicle
- Place the jack under the rear differential
- Raise the vehicle with the jack
- Place the jack stands underneath the frame, in front of the rear wheels
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step 3 :Raising and Supporting One Wheel
- Place the jack under the frame at the pinch weld, next to the wheel you want to raise
- Raise the vehicle with the jack
- Place the jack stand underneath the frame next to the wheel
Tools needed
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Jack Stands
Floor Jack
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To raise and support the Subaru Outback, you could roll your floor jack right under here, put your jack pad here, and lift up the front of the vehicle. Your jack stands would actually go where our two lift arms are. There's a small cutout here in the plastics, and you can just see there's a couple lines in here. Basically, line up your jack stands just under the pinch weld here, pretty much right where the lift arm is on both sides. That way, the front of the vehicle can be up off the ground. You can work on the wheels, suspension, control arms, all that good stuff.
If you want to jack up the rear, the back of the car is pretty long, but you'll have to slide your floor jack underneath. You'll put it right under the rear diff. You'll lift up there. Then, of course, also put your jack stands right where the lift arms are. The jacking points are right here, so you can also – that's the other thing, too. If you want to change just a wheel, you can jack up the car here, and then place your jack stand next to it. Of course, you could change your wheel, but for the most part, you want to have the back of the car jacked up so you can work on brakes, suspension, anything of that matter. You can put your jack stands on either side and have it lifted up.
Whenever you're raising and supporting a vehicle, you should never put your jack or your jack stands on the suspension arms. You can bend them or damage them. You could throw the alignment off the car or just generally damage them. So it's not a good idea. You always want to lift up on solid points of the car. The differential's always a good choice, and, of course, where the factory marks on the pinch welds are good places to put jack stands or a jack. Front of the vehicle, you never want to jack up on the control arms to lift the vehicle or even where they mount. This isn't really designed to hold the weight of the car. It's designed for the suspension to be attached to it, but not to hold weight on it. If you jacked up on this, you could bend it, damage it, damage the unibody of the car. It's not a good idea. Make sure you jack up on a solid lifting point, which would be this part here. Then, of course, use the factory jack points that are here on the pinch welds.
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