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Old 11-19-2021, 06:51 PM
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I did this on my Firebird On a lift but are used a piece of wood under the oil pan and used one of those stabilizers that They use as a protection when the car is on the lift that adjusts and just crank it up enough to change them out wanted to time.

Should be able to do the same thing with a floor jack in my opinion
I have put the car on a pair of car ramps. Just enough so that the floor jack would go easily under the oil pan with a wood block (to not scratch the pan).

Then I used my "two step" step stool to be at a nice height over the fenders.

I have removed the engine from the 64 GTO that way (one mount side at a time) many times, same deal for installing headers over the years.

If you have a Cherry Picker, you can lift one side at a time with that vs a floor jack and many times that is as safe or safer vs a floor jack or bottle jack.

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