Jacking up a Xantia

[ecohouse1]

Hi
Anyone have any advice about jacking all 4 wheels off the ground with a Xantia using 2 trolley jacks and axle stands to change the spheres or generally any tips about how to best position a Xantia at home to do all 6 spheres.?

Plan on doing the spheres this weekend, and when I did my BXs I could jack from the centre of the front subframe and also from a central point at the rear ( IIRC!) and the towbar on my TZD estate.

I have bigger trolley jacks so height is not as issue and oldfahioned hefty axle stands so I don't end up as a hydraulic pancake!

Plan on cracking the rears with a trolley under as a "failsafe" then getting the whole rear end up to swap em over & then get in around the anti-sink.

Would prefer to depressurise once for all spheres.

Any tips not involving ramps?

[lexi]

I have had a few of mine on 4 axle stands. Subframes IIRC.

[Xaccers]

I always find doing front then back, especially as it gives you more room underneath, to be quicker and easier (especially if the camber of the road lets you just slip the axle stands into the jacking points so no need for a jack), but if you insist on doing both ends at once, set the car on high, get axle stands or a jack under the back as a safety precaution, crack the rear spheres so they turn just a bit, then put axle stands under all the jacking points using the subframe to lift the car up enough to get the stands under. You will probably need to lift the car quite a bit to get at the anti-sink sphere.

Or just put the car on high, crack the rear spheres, slip axle stands under the jacking points at the back on their lowest setting, de-pressurise so the front of the car drops and the rear rises giving you loads of room to safely get under, swap the spheres (remembering the trick with the 9mm flare spanner on the anti-sink sphere), get her on high and repeat for the front.
Depending what tool you have, you might be able to get at the accumulator from above, in which case you'd only need the one de-pressurisation.