98 V70 AWD Jacking Rear of The Car

[rmmagow]

Brake work. I want to have both rear wheels up off the ground on jack stands. On the AWD, is there a spot in the rear to centrally locate the jack to get both wheels up? I was thinking to place the stands at the roundish thing in front of the rear wheels, the same spot that I jack when working on one wheel at a time. I'm needing to do a bunch of parking brake and regular brake work at the rear. Looked at other posts but I need to be sure so I don't kill myself or the car. Thanks

[kahl]

Hi Rm, I place my jack under the plate that houses the differential. I place my jack stands under the round steel plate on left and right in front of rear wheels.

[rmmagow]

Excellent! I forgot about that. This is exactly what I want.
Another question about jacking. On the sides inthe middle is the fitting for jacking the car up with the supplied volvo jack, a device I will never use. I do have a thing from Harbor Freight that fits into my regular 3T floor jack and basically has two jacking pads that can be adjusted in and out. Essentially giving the jack the ability to spread the load over two points. I've used it to jack up the front via the sub-frame and it works fine. That middle section of the car, it it strong enough on each side of the single jacking point that I could raise a side using this thing from HF? The setup would be "pad" "volvo fitting" "Pad" then jack up the whole thing with the floor jack.