The pic of this spring-install project raises several important safey issues for DIY suby wrenching. So here goes (apologies in advance if you guys DID do some of this stuff). We have a designated Safety Officer for our race team, he's a hawk about this sort of stuff for good reason.
1) it's WAY safer to jack a car one end at a time rather than one side at a time like shown. the car is much more stable for wrenching prying and/or supplemental type jacking with both fronts or both rears on the ground...the side jacking method leaves car pretty tippy. jack a suby with jack pad under trans support bracket up front, or under the rear diff--doing it under the side like shown tends to wrinkle a key body seam and/or fook up the side skirts (BTDT)
2) WHERE are the jackstands??!! mebbe they are under there, but sure don't appear to be! working under a car with 2 wheels in the air, supported by just 1 jack...def not OHSA approved or advisable for anybody else. At a rally service, a crew could well receive a time penalty for this because it is so clearly a safety issue. I have witnessed where a car came down onto a guy whose legs were under the car while prying on a suspension bit...let's just say he was really really lucky there were a bunch of people around to huck the car up off him once he started screaming.
3) no pad under the jack on a dirt surface. without some support under the jack (1/2" or 3/4" plywood pad) jacks like to settle into the dirt, lowering the car and potentially even letting it tip sideways as jack settles more on one side than the other.
We all love to work on our cars (well most anyway), but it needs to be SAFE, and the photo shows a classic Potential Big Problem scenario--a car jacked improperly with no backup support.
Please note: am not trying to single out any one person for this, it's just that the photo brings up a major point that ppl need to be aware of.
