When your jacking and lifting a car, are you supposed to first put the car in neutral and release the parking break, or put the car in park ? I go to a technical high school and the auto teacher taught us to put it in neutral first, but my dad keeps arguing with me that you put it in park. I told him that you put it in neutral because the back wheels have to move so the front end can go up, but he says it doesnt matter because the jack has wheels ?
Leave the car in park because if you leave it in neutral it will slide. Make sure you lift on the frame of the car.
When you lift a car using a jack, you are at most only taking one wheel off the ground. You are also shifting the weight of the car by jacking it up. You always want to keep the car in park so it doesn't roll backwards and slide right off the jack or the jack stand that you put on it. You should chock (place obstructions like a brick or block of wood) behind the two wheels that remain on the ground to further decrease the likelihood of the car rolling or moving around. Whoever told you to put the car in neutral to jack it up is a complete idiot.
Usually when you jack a car up your raising only one tire. Here's a step by step guide for that. 1. Place the car in park (AUTOMATIC), or pull up the hand brake. (MANUAL). 2. Look under the car for a proper place to jack the car, aim for the chassis. (i've known people who've jammed their doors because they weren't paying attention and put it on the body. 3. Are the car raised, put chocks being the wheels. (usually wood blocks, or bricks will do) 4. For added safety, put a jack stand next to the jack. I've known people who has died because the jack malfunction and the car rolled over the chocks, crushing him to death.
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