Doubt there is one up front. How do you know the rear diff is an OK rear jacking point?
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There's a jacking point at the front.
The rear differential is another identified lift point, but I've always wondered about this. The differential is attached to the subframe by rubber bushings, and when the car is lifted at the differential, the bushings are compressed a lot -- seems to me that can't be good. But it is a recognized lift point, as the Service Manual notes -- see attached, which is from the 2010 FSM, General section, Note sub-section.
The rear differential is another identified lift point, but I've always wondered about this. The differential is attached to the subframe by rubber bushings, and when the car is lifted at the differential, the bushings are compressed a lot -- seems to me that can't be good. But it is a recognized lift point, as the Service Manual notes -- see attached, which is from the 2010 FSM, General section, Note sub-section.
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When using my floor jack, I have always use those jacking points on all my subarus
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When using a car lift with swinging arms, the arms are set to contact the car body at the same place (four points under the sill) as when lifting with the car's own jack (see Owners Manual).
A flat piece of rubber should be placed on the swinging arm pad to protect the bottom of the pinch weld; better still, a solid piece of thick, rubber with a channel in it (as in the attached diagram) is used so that the weight of the car is supported by the reinforced areas of the rocker panel to the side of the pinch weld and not the pinch weld itself (similar to way the car's own jack has a notch that slips over the pinch weld so that the jack doesn't lift on the pinch weld itself).
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