Jacking a defender: diff box or middle of the axle?

All,

The workshop manual says that a defender should be jacked by its diff boxes,
stating to be careful because these are not centred. Indeed, when I do
that, I can't seem to be able to lift the opposite wheel without having to
lift the whole thing insanely high, far too high to be safe (and I actually
didn't try because of the angle the axle was showing with the jack).

Is it ok to jack using the middle of the axle?

TIA,

Fred

I jack up using the holes in the front or rear ad then use axle stands. So
you can lift the whole car if you want to
regards
Fred

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> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:37:06 +0100, Fred Labrosse <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >All,
> >
> >The workshop manual says that a defender should be jacked by its diff
boxes,
> >stating to be careful because these are not centred. Indeed, when I do
> >that, I can't seem to be able to lift the opposite wheel without having
to
> >lift the whole thing insanely high, far too high to be safe (and I
actually
> >didn't try because of the angle the axle was showing with the jack).
> >
> >Is it ok to jack using the middle of the axle?
> >
> >TIA,
> >
> >Fred
>
> I jack, via a wooden block, the end of the axle I want lifted, never
> had any problems, I suppose you could jack the middle to get both
> wheels up if you needed thus, but that'd be putting more weight on the
> jacking point than I've done with my method.
>
>
> Regards.
> Mark.
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