From a discussion going on over on the dark side where some daft Yank had an air spring come apart so lubed the rubber bit to put it back together and then wondered why it kept coming apart again. Durr, they aren't normally lubed that's why. However, it moved onto the advice about not jacking the car on the chassis rails but only on the axles. Now I can see how it could be thought that this will pull an air spring apart and it probably would if it had no air in it at all, but if it is inflated it'll only extend as far as the shocks will allow it to so no different to dropping a wheel into a pothole or driving over some very rough ground. A tyre place I use has a guy that used to own a P38 and he always insists that the EAS is put on high so there is maximum pressure in the springs before jacking on the chassis. I appreciate that if a car is sitting on the bumpstops with no air in the springs, jacking it on the chassis could well cause the springs to come apart but there should never be a problem if they have air in them.

But why have I posted this advice here and not over there? After my ban, for which I am still awaiting an explanation, I registered another username giving the very briefest of information about me and using a completely different email address. I posted in one thread and my post appeared, only to disappear a few minutes later and since then I've posted a couple more times and the posts have never appeared. Looks like they may have sussed that it's me. Being logged in means I don't get half a screen of adverts though and I have found that I can send PMs.....

Anyway, we get a much better class of discussion on here.

That's how I do mine. Set the EAS to max, set the inhibitor switch and open the tail gate to lock it all in place. Then jack from a chassis rail.

Glad to hear someone else confirm I'm not damaging my car as no one has replied to that other thread yet.

I really couldn't figure out why he thought extending (an inflated) airbag would damage it.

I suppose it's one of those, somebody once did it when the car was on the bumpstops and it pulled a spring apart so the rumour goes around that it will always happen without looking at the individual circumstances. They are designed to extend as far as the shocks will allow anyway. and before anyone suggests it doesn't happen with coils, may I direct your attention to the strapline at the top of the page........

That phrase got me banned from the other site, so I figured it would work as a pretty good warding sign to keep the humourless out (and they'd probably spell it "humorless", too).

That's funny, it got me banned the first time too. When I protested and pointed out that it was completely relevant and dated back to when the Defender came out on coils to replace the leaf springs on the series Landys, it got me banned a second time......

I think the title of this thread would have resulted in a ban from the other place too.
Over "there" Jacking a P38 means to remove from the owner by force...

Or, perhaps a "polite reminder" that the correct lifting procedures are in RAVE so please piss off and read that instead of bothering people here with your questions because someone already asked it back in the mists of time locks thread :P

I could have entitled it, "Lifting a P38" but then people would have thought it would be a 'I want to know how to lift my P38 so I can fit these humongous tyres I found left over at the tractor shop'. I got a warning for suggesting that someone simply pressed the button on his dashboard......