Where the heck are the jack points?? 2018 TRDORP w/ KDSS

[jhmoore]

OK, please don't flame me...

New 4Runner owner. Getting ready for my first big trip in a couple weeks, so thought this morning that I should get out all the jack parts & spare tire and just go through changing the tire--so I'm not surprised while on my trip.

Everything is stock, including the jack & parts. Eventually I'll get a better jack (and if I could figure out how to store the thing with my stock setup, I'd even be open to getting one before this trip... which I don't anticipate being more than average gravel roads).

But where the heck are the jack points? I've been under the 4Runner for the last half hour, looking at the book, Googling, and... ???

2018 4Runner TRDORP with KDSS

For the front wheels, from the diagram in the owner's manual, it looks like maybe I should jack from near where I've circled in the photos???? But I'm lost for back wheels...

Appreciate any help... even more so with marked up photos, as I don't yet know the names of all the parts... as I said, new 4Runner owner & this is my first vehicle of this type. Thanks!!!

 

[catrains]

well good you got out the jacking equipment before the trip.. I also a new 4runner owner in 2016 did this game and I did not like how Toyota gave us these crapo jacking equipment...

so here are the jack points

now what I also did was purchase a stubby jack so I can jack up under the front lower control arms works great very little lift to remove tire ..

when I rotate my tires I place the 3ton floor jack under the pumpkin [rear diff] and use the stubby to lift one side of the front tire works great little lift very stable .. jacks up 3 inches ..

 

[Cndnmax]

Pretty much anywhere on the frame side rails is good to go, ou just want to be close to the wheel you are working on for stability. You can lift both rear tires from the rear differential but might want to save that for a floor jack.

 

[slprciv]

Should be in your owners manual

 

[jhmoore]

Should be in your owners manual

The owner's manual diagrams are very small and very non-specific.

 

[slprciv]

The owner's manual diagrams are very small and very non-specific.

That picture came straight right from my owner's manual...... And you're welcome!

 

[jhmoore]

This is what my owner's manual has... which for my level of knowledge & comfort is not sufficient... (because I don't want to (a) break the damn thing, or (b) break myself when it falls off the jack!)

 

[srpuywa]

get a portable floor jack with a case, ditch the bottle jack

 

[STX4Runner]

This is what my owner's manual has... which for my level of knowledge & comfort is not sufficient... (because I don't want to (a) break the damn thing, or (b) break myself when it falls off the jack!)

How is that not sufficient? Not trying to be rude, but they tell you exactly where to place the jack? With words and a drawing.

 

[STX4Runner]

get a portable floor jack with a case, ditch the bottle jack

No. The bottle jack provided is absolutely fine for changing a tire on the road. Some of y'all on here are hilarious. Carrying around enough tools and shit to service an offshore oil platform.

 

[jhmoore]

How is that not sufficient? Not trying to be rude, but they tell you exactly where to place the jack? With words and a drawing.

New to this vehicle and this type of vehicle. Rear axle housing is round. The top of the supplied jack is flat. Call me silly, but I’d prefer not to kill myself or destroy the vehicle when I’ve got it jacked up improperly and it falls off.

It’s not like I asked without having looked at the manual or without having crawled under the vehicle. Is it so wrong to ask??

 

[STX4Runner]

New to this vehicle and this type of vehicle. Rear axle housing is round. The top of the supplied jack is flat. Call me silly, but I’d prefer not to kill myself or destroy the vehicle when I’ve got it jacked up improperly and it falls off.



It’s not like I asked without having looked at the manual or without having crawled under the vehicle. Is it so wrong to ask??

No it’s fine to ask. I’m not trying to be a dick or know it all. But trust the manual. IIRC the top of the jack has some texture. Once you get the weight of the vehicle on it a bit it won’t move.


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[Riders of Lohan]

Wherever there’s frame baby

 

[srpuywa]

No. The bottle jack provided is absolutely fine for changing a tire on the road. Some of y'all on here are hilarious. Carrying around enough tools and shit to service an offshore oil platform.

these are way better than the OEM crap, and safer

https://www.sears.com/craftsman-2-1...gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CI2s5qDwiN0CFfUCrQYd5SgJtg

 

[jhmoore]

I was out running errands and stopped by a local Toyota dealer service shop & talked with the service foreman. Nice guy. He climbed under there with me and showed me both where he would put his larger jacks (if not on a lift) as well as where Toyota recommends that I put the provided jack.

For the rear jack points, it is in fact on the rounded axle cover. He said not to worry about it coming off the jack so long as the parking brake is on... and to line up the small amount of (he called it cupping, but it's really more of a small groove) on the jack head with the axle cover.

 

[STX4Runner]

these are way better than the OEM crap, and safer

https://www.sears.com/craftsman-2-1...gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CI2s5qDwiN0CFfUCrQYd5SgJtg

The oem jack is perfectly fine for changing tires. I don’t know why you’re calling it crap. For doing shop work like putting on a lift, yes use a good quality floor jack and jack stands. Also, that sears jack has a smaller lift range than the oem jack I think.

I don’t know about everyone else, but when travel in this I run out of room for stuff real fast. I don’t want to use precious cargo space needlessly duplicating a perfectly fine factory tool. That sears jack weighs 33 pounds vs about 3 for the stock jack. No need to add that much weight either.


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[t6pilot]

Having done a fare bit of off reading in land Rovers and Jeeps with stock factory jacks. I recommend a 12 in piece of 2x12, trying to use factory jack in dirt or worse, won’t cut it

 

[t6pilot]

Sorry meant to say “offroading “,auto correct gets me every time

 

[Cndnmax]

I was out running errands and stopped by a local Toyota dealer service shop & talked with the service foreman. Nice guy. He climbed under there with me and showed me both where he would put his larger jacks (if not on a lift) as well as where Toyota recommends that I put the provided jack.

For the rear jack points, it is in fact on the rounded axle cover. He said not to worry about it coming off the jack so long as the parking brake is on... and to line up the small amount of (he called it cupping, but it's really more of a small groove) on the jack head with the axle cover.

Be careful with his advice, the parking brake only holds the back wheels. Lift both back wheels and you’ve got nothing. You would’ve wise to use a wheel chuck or at the very least engage 4HI to lock the front wheels.

 

[jhmoore]

Be careful with his advice, the parking brake only holds the back wheels. Lift both back wheels and you’ve got nothing. You would’ve wise to use a wheel chuck or at the very least engage 4HI to lock the front wheels.

Thanks, [MENTION=222848]Cndnmax[/MENTION]