Arctic
Member Since: 24 Aug 2016
Location: Westmidlands
Posts: 536
 
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Quote:Hi Owld skipper.
Hi Arctic. The curved boxes with 2 large and 1 small hole are part of the manufacturer's lift points for when the body is being manufactured. They're not strong enough to support the weight of the fully built vehicle, unless the support pad fully covers the whole boxed area, which the factory support does, the factory support even has tapered cones that engage in the large hole, giving more supported area. It should be noted, that these supports aren't connected to anything really substantial, they are spot welded to the floor, except for the outer edge where it's welded to the inner sill. I'd definitely not be lifting or supporting on that part of the body.
Lifting and supporting under the subframes is by far the safest thing to do on these heavy vehicles.
If you read Nodges post above , it's not for jacking up or for axle stands etc, even though i must confess i have used it for both, my axle stands has a large head, and i used a oblong piece of wood which covered the whole area.
It does look like yours has been used for jacking up with a small head on the jack, either a trolley jack or scissor jack, because it is pushed in and upwards, also in it's early life been in an area which is very wet or used lots of salt on the roads ?
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