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Almost a silly question, but perhaps worth asking as the Fairway is a rather heavy motor car.

Is it OK to jack up the back of the cab by means of a hydraulic jack with the saddle placed under the differential?

Many thanks!

personally speaking wouldnt put it on the diff too much weight and dangerous.2 Tonnes is a lot of pressure on it !

whats the capacity of the jack?

would you support on axle stands before working on the car, what jack is supplied with the vehicle?

surely theres not 2tonne on 1 axle?

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He asked if he could jack up the taxi by the diff,which i wouldnt

Might not be the jack, I have seen some stoved in diffs after jacking them up

jack it up under the spring where it fixes to the axle,but you might still struggle to get the wheel off without lifting the body a bit as well.
I wouldn't risk jacking up under the centre of the diff,its probably strong enough but isn't designed to take that sort of weight.

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it was common practice to jack up using the diffs when the FX4's and fairways used to have manually adjusted brakes.

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Fairway is 1.6tonne, probably only 600kg on the rear end

a trolley jack and axle stands would be fine for doing repairs, for on-road/punctures (etc) id guess theres a guide in the manual, and its probably a bottle jack

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Your missing the point,theres jacking up points on either side of cab and its not a bottle jack.Now if you read what he was asking he didnt mention axle stands he said was it ok to jack it up on the diff.As cc said it does get done but personally i wouldnt jack up mine on diff especially not to go under it.Stick to the mondeo boy

I would certainy trust the diff rather than any jacking point on a 15 year old + fairway chassis, just spread the load with a block of 3x2 and make sure you get the stands under the axle asap!

Do you know the chasis of a fairway ? Didnt think so or else youd now how strong they are,everything else around it might rot !

Get underneath and you'll find the jacking points are just outriggers where the chassis bolts to the body, you trust it if you don't value your life I wouldn't trust any of the metal underneath anything that LTI produce. Even whilst it was under warranty Mann overton managed to put a 4 poster lift through the floor

he didnt specify what jack he was going to use boy, read it all next time

we all have trolley jacks for repair use dont we (i do anyway) boy

under a diff is fine with a TROLLEY jack

(OP did state HYDRAULIC jack though, thats usually a trolley jack)

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I was refering to you asking as to what jack is supplied to the taxi,on second thoughts tell you what stick to your gaffer tape repairs,youll be safer

Blackpool, trolley jacks hadnt been invented when your car was "built" (i use the term loosely) so thats why theres no instructions on how to use one

look in the clay tablet manual you have under "ye lifting of ye olde horseless carriage", it may be written in latin though

obviously my car being post WW2 doesnt have a back axle housing a diff....cos its front wheel drive (not something your boat anchor of a shed ever had)

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