Jacks....bumper, floor, scissor on Driver

You won't bend a 76 Dart bumper with the factory bumper jack. It has a big ol honkin steel plate behind it! If the car has no rust issues, I'd just use the bumper jack. Get it out and practice with it! Buy you a rubber wheel chock and a 4 way lug wrench at Northern Tool. Here's how you do it. Say, if you're changing the left rear tire....place your chock in front of the right front tire. Always place the chock on the opposite corner tire than the one you're changing. Get the spare, jack, and lug wrench out of the trunk so it is ready. Pop your hubcap off the flat tire, and take your 4 way lug wrench, and select the socket that fits the lug. Break each lug nut on that wheel loose BEFORE you jack the car up. Just break the torque....don't loosen em way up. Jack the car up until the tire clears the ground enough to get the spare that is inflated back on. Take the 4 way, and get the lug nuts off. Pull the flat off, put the spare on, and put the lug nuts back on till they are snug. Flip the lever on the jack, and set the car back down. Be careful with the jack handle on the way down. You need to hold pressure against the handle as it's coming up, and not just let it jump each time you feel it release/click. In other words...don't let it free wheel. When the tire you just changed has good pressure against the ground, take your 4 way and tighten the lug nuts good. Put the flat in the trunk, and store the jack back where it goes. Leave the hubcap off, and put it in the trunk where it will rattle and piss you off! That way, you will get the flat fixed ASAP, and put it back on! Go pick up your wheel chock and throw it in the trunk and go on down the road! Not everyone lived thru the bumper jack era like us old guys....so I hope this makes sense and helps!

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