What is the best way / jack to use to lift the truck for tore rotation?

Is it a no-no to put the jack on the rear axle and lift. I lift one side (on the axel, 4-5 inches from diff), and put a jack stand as close to the spring clamp bolts as possible, then I go over to the other side and do same. Take off the rear tires, move the jack to the front, jack under the A arms one at a time. Swap tires and return to the rear axel to mount old front tires. Should I not jack on the axle?

axel? axle? I like the accel......

Theswits said:

Is it a no-no to put the jack on the rear axle and lift

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Not in my opinion, and that's what I posted earlier...

You can jack on the diff. You just have to watch the cover. A typical jack pad has the 4 lips on it and if you get it in just the wrong spot it can catch on the bottom edge of the cover. I don't like those lips putting a concentrated load point on the cast iron all that much either, so I have a flat steel piece with rubber that I replaced my standard jack pad with.
Like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O2KJF8C/?tag=fordraptorforum-20
No chance of damage that way. Works great on the front too.

EricM said:

A typical jack pad has the 4 lips on it and if you get it in just the wrong spot it can catch on the bottom edge of the cover

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Yep, I hear you. Like others on here, replaced the rubber pad with a puck, works great, just a bit higher than the lips.
Loufish --> thanks for the tip, jacking on the diff will save me a minute. Put in both stands in one step.

The factory jack sucks so I picked up an aluminum floor jack at Harbor Freight and it fits perfectly under the rear seat strapped to the D rings. Couple 2X4s if needed for height.

Thankfully, my family has a shop with a vehicle lift that makes working on vehicles so much easier - I just have to drive 2.5 hours to use it.

That said, I did pull my factory jack out yesterday to finally get familiar with it. My coworker had a flat tire awhile back and said he was unable to jack the truck sufficiently high enough without using wood blocks. Anyway, come to find out the manual actually tells you to lift the rear wheels up using the rear axle, but not on the pumpkin, which makes sense to me. The factory jack (which is as functional as it is cheap) is molded to conform the axle pretty well.

I ran by tractor supply to see if they had some good jacks, and they had a "SUV" floor jack in the same vein of the pro eagle for $80, and several well-rated bottle jacks in the $40-60 range. Several were just close enough to get sufficient height, one went up to 21", but was closer to a jack stand than a bottle jack. All the jack stands I found were not high enough (all assuming you place under axle).

For your home garage, this is the best floor jack to buy for the money- by far.

https://www.harborfreight.com/3-ton-daytona-professional-steel-floor-jack-super-duty-63183.html

For jack stands- get the 6 ton models, they should be plenty high for a Raptor. I might move mine up one or two notches to sit the axle on.

Bought one today. Great jack.

Any way to lift both the front tires from the center?