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I had a look at the '97 service manual and GI-39 suggests lifting the truck with a garage jack from the middle of the rear axle and the middle of the front crossmember (not the one under the tranny, the one in line with the front LCA bushings). Looks like there's even a half-circle cutout in the skid plate to make this easy. The manual suggests using a rubber or wood block between the jack stands and the sort-of-frame, but doesn't say anything about a block or pad on the jack itself. And no, I wouldn't jack from the crossmember under the trans. Like you said, you'd be lifting most of the truck, and the line drawing in the manual doesn't make it look especially stout.

I'm Saturn over on Yotatech too. Great site, tons of technical info and less of the bro stuff, but they're a bit like Pirate4x4 with the whole "get on my level" "you don't have solid axles the side of telephone poles? What are you even doing here" type stuff. Still a great community.

All the mall crawlers around here with the lifted and squatted trucks run light bars all the time. When I finish my pathfinder I want to see how many I can actually get to go off road just to watch then get stuck as I crawl right on through the simple stuff most of them think a gravel road is off roading and mudding (I don't personally like mudding, it tears up seals way too quick). I could go on and on about the "all show - no go" crowd... Sent from inside my potato