Floor jack to middle front

Send me your email address and I'll send you a picture I can't really explain it if you're in the front of the car and you're pushing your before you push your jack under the front of the car get in the center of the front of the car and lay on the concrete or the blacktop and look towards the back of the car there is a thing that's metal sticking down or there that you can put your jack saddle under and give it one or two pumps while you're laying on the ground and see it touch that and then boom boom boom boom boom up you go me personally I usually don't put both the front wheels off the ground just because no safety issue or nothing it's not usually what I'm doing usually me personally I'm lifting one side of the car like save the driver side and putting both of those wheels in the air at the same time and then the other way I do it is I have two floor jacks and I put one under the front rocker and one back further on the other side and my girl and myself jack up on the jacks and up the whole car goes and then I had a stand on the opposite corners of the rocker panels that my jacks aren't under then let everything down about a half an inch of the resting on the stands and on the jacks and nothing's going anywhere but yes you can get the front up pretty quickly and Mendel or somebody will be along in a second with a photograph and circles around the photograph where you can put the jack there's also a section in here about jacking the car and it shows you with circles around all of those jack points should you care to look for it I don't know where it is somebody will come up and post a link for you in a few minutes

 

Unless you purchased a really low-profile jack, you will find it helpful to drive the car's front wheels onto 2 x 8s stacked 2 high. Make the top one shorter than the bottom one, say make the bottom board 3' long and the top one 2' long, to make it easier to drive up onto the stack.

 

Yes I assumed bad on my part that you bought one of these aluminum jacks with the side handle on the jack portion and the aluminum two-piece breakdown handle that pops together they're blue or red predominantly aluminum about $89 at the store that should fit right under your Prius to the point where this point is to jack on if not if the Jack barely rubs on stuff put your shoulder in between the car and just move your shoulder a little bit you don't have to move the car but a quarter of an inch in the Jack zings rt 7nder

 

One piece of 2 x 10 on each side is high enough to get our Harbor Freight 3 Ton low profile rapid pump going. The first couple of pumps the handle only moves up and down a couple of inches, but then the car lifts up far enough to pump it normally.

Which reminds me, I need to rebuild the darn thing. It started leaking oil from one of the two little pump cylinders near the handle pivot.

For the OP, it helps to have somebody who can spot while placing the floor jack. Now that I have done it enough times I know to align the jack on the car's center line and push it straight in until it reaches a certain position on the handle. Sorry, I never measured from the lift cup to that point, that would be useful information, wouldn't it? Then crank it up until contact, verify that it is in the right place on the "butterfly" shaped member, then pump it up the rest of the way. Have a hockey puck or the like on the lift cup of the floor jack. Metal to metal may be OK but I would worry about it creasing the metal on the butterfly and possibly weakening it.

This lift point isn't Toyota's best work, it would have been better if there was an obvious reinforced location to place the jack. That butterfly does not look like it should be used as a jack point.