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wood and a jack at some auto store.. i use a large one from summitracing.com as for the side points, cause you have the front and rear.. you jack where it says in your owners manual.. at the front of the side, there is a jack point where the door and fender meet.. you look under the car and you should see extra metal in that area.. and just look behind the door to find the rear ones..

 

there is a tow hook on the rear of the car that can be used as a jacking point and you can jack via the front cross member too.. make sure you use jack stands and not a jack to hold your shoe box up while you work on it..
my favorite jacking place is still between my legs

 

be careful when putting your jack in place. My left rear placement under the car has rusted, and bent back when i jacked it up.

 

always jack the frame (ideal). in a hurry: fronts i jack on the tow hooks. rear i hit the center tow hook. if cars going up for a while i hit frame, put jack stands on frame.

oh also i missed the frame completely last winter when i flew off my driveway into some bushes (i wound up on top of them). car got stuck i was flipping out. i jacked the unibody and put a nice hole in it


[Modified by TorteX, 12:58 PM 9/10/2002]

 

Tow Hooks

 

My Helms manual gives 6 different jack points.

There are the 4 tabs that are right next to the wheels (two front, two rear like you said)

Also, you can jack up the rear of the car by putting one jack underneath the tow hook on the back.

As for the front, you can put one jack underneath the center of the crossmember bar. The book says NOT to use the front two hooks for jack points. This is all from my Helms manual, if you don't have a Helms BUY ONE.

Go to helminc.com to buy one. This is the actual Honda Shop Manual. No other book comes close.

Also, a rule of thumb - DO NOT go underneath the car unless you have at least 2 jack stands holding the car up. So raise the front of the car with one jack underneath the crossmember, then put two jackstands at the jack points next to the front wheels. To jack up the rear of the car, use one jack underneath the rear tow hook, then put one jackstand on each jack point next to each rear wheel.

Does that make sense? I suck at explaining things...