Caterham Kid

The model has potentially gone now.

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You beat me to it! I have added where I am now 🙂

Just realised I didn't put where I am! I am located in the South London area.

Free but collection only. 1:18 model Caterham. The 2 mirrors have broken off but so far I haven't lost them so you may be able to fix them back on. It could also do with a really good clean!

I don't how, but just come across this post. This is a 3.5 year old post! This was me you spotted!

LJ70 ??? maroon red with double silver stripe. Saw you at about 12:20 on 10th October at Malden Rushett

I agree. I wouldn't ever use 3 axle stands, but I had never before considered that using 4 was a problem, and have done so in the past for, as you say, oil changes etc.

I used the point on the frame where it is shown to place axle stands in the guide linked by brianjhall31 above, although I had to fit the jack and and axle stand in very close proximity. You are right though and when I have to do this again I will purchase a low entry jack.

Here are the instructions for the axle stands. Shows using 4 is incorrect.

It turned out to be less of an issue than feared. I went and got a set of car ramps and I put the rear wheels on those. That was more than enough to get access to the rivets so I didn't need to jack up the front at all. I only had 2 issues. Firstly since the beginning of the lockdown my garage had become a bit of a dumping ground so I had to spend a few hours clearing up before I could get access to the axle stands and my trolley jack! Secondly, I can't remember how I jacked up the rear before but there was no way the trolley jack was going under the de Dion joint so I had to jack up a rear corner, put an axle stand under that to give me enough space to get the trolley jack under the the de Dion joint. I could then jack up enough to place the ramps under. There was no way, especially on my own, that I would have been able to drive up on to them! Anyway, there were 4 rivets that needed re-doing and that only took 5 minutes!

On the box the axle stands came in and in the instructions it states never use more than a single pair of axle stands.

Ok, having asked around as well as on here it would seem that 4 axle stands is not advised especially with a very slight slope. Advice seems to be ramps at the rear with Axle stands at the front with a single axle stand leg pointing forward (direction of slope). I don't actually have to go under the car but I do need to fit a drill under.

Not even a slight slope?

Thanks very much for all your responses. It gives me confidence I can safely use 4 axle stands. However I should have mentioned that my garage is too small to do this so I have to do it on the drive which has a very slight slope. Would that be an issue? I might pick up some wheel ramps and go for the ramps at the back and axle stands at the front option.