I finally stopped procrastinating and started on the suspension overhaul today.
Step one: get the car up in the air. The front is easy, but the back was a huge pain. The sub-frame is too far underneath to reach with the jack from the back, so I wound up putting a jack on each side to get it up high enough to get a small set of stands in, then repositioned a jack to the center of the rear sub-frame.
The problem now is that I can't figure out anywhere to put the jack stands in the rear besides the sub-frame by the mounts, or the points for the factory tire-change jack. The sub-frame by the mounts appears to be a great option, except that I am planning to replace the mounts, so the sub-frame has to be free to be dropped.
The factory jack points are an unhelpful shape, and it's not clear if the area around the cylindrical indentation (matching the shape of the jack) is equally as strong as the center, or if the indentation is just a locating device.
So far the Internet has not been any help. It's not even clear to me where you would locate the pads on a post lift.
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