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Where's the best Lift Jack Location?
Hello y’all, so if i want to remove the front tire on a F3, where would be the best place to put the lift jack?? I don’t have one of those fancy lift jacks that will raise the whole bike. Pics would be great.
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I use a floor jack. I place it under one of the lower A-Arms and lift High Enough to get the tire off the floor. I also place a folded shop towel on the lift pad so as not to Mar the a-arm.
Ours is a red, black and chrome 2017 F3 Limited. Bought new in 2/2019. The avatar is my first bike back in 1952, a Simplex Servi-Cycle. Photo taken at the Barber Museum.
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Originally Posted by RICZ
I use a floor jack. I place it under one of the lower A-Arms and lift High Enough to get the tire off the floor. I also place a folded shop towel on the lift pad so as not to Mar the a-arm.
Thanks for that info. Thought about that but i thought it would damage the a arm.
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One of those small inexpensive roll around floor jacks from Harbor Freight or Wally World would be a good start. Great little jacks, very handy for many small jobs. Put the jack under the front of your spyder with a 1"X12" between the jack and the spyder and then lift. If your spyder is a little too low to get that underneath it, then roll your spyder front tires up on a couple of more small pieces of 1X12's. Now...........get yourself a couple of car ramps from the same stores. Drive your spyder's front tires up on them and tie them down. Cut a chunk of 2"X6" that will fit between the swing arms under the bottom of the rear shock bolt and use the same jack the same way to lift the rear wheel. Put a milk crate of some similar under the rear tire and now you are up in the air high enough for an oil change. Very inexpensive lift and works very well. I have other $$$ jacks but that's my "go to" jack 99% of the time.
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Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie
2013 RT Ltd Pearl White
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I use an old small floor jack under the "A" arm with a block of wood to spread the lift force.
I have also used a Toyota scissors jack to lift various parts of the spyder. Works fine for tires, shocks
and lifting to install a Baja Ron sway bar.
David C
2016 F3T
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