What's better to jack a tacoma double cab? High lift jack or jack stands?

Another safety concern... Always wear nitrile or laytex gloves when removing zombie bits from your vehicle. Do not allow blood or other body fluids to come in contact with your skin. One can't stress enough the contagious nature of this material. I keep a few pairs in my tool kit "just in case".

 

This happend to me many years ago. I was working on my 74 chevelle had it on jack stands front wheels off on a nice hot California day. The surface I was on was blacktop or asphault as some call it I was half under the car when I noticed it started to move. Long story short I got out of there pronto as soon as I was out standing there looking at it saying WTF blam the front of car was laying on the ground on its front brakes.
Here is what happend when blacktop gets hot it also gets soft legs of jack stands sank in and the rest is history.
Minor damage to my Chevelle a couple of bent backing plates for the brakes.

 

Fwiw hi lift makes a kit that lifts from the wheel instead of the bumper. Search Amazon, it's like $30 or so

 

Did a lot of searching to make sure i asked this in the correct thread.
Looking at the owners manual for my 2015 the rear jacking points are on the rear axle below at the point the springs are located.

But its hard to tell what the front ones are???. From the looks of it they are on the frame?? Note, I will be using a trolley jack if that makes a difference.


Seeing that the rear points are on the axle will make changing the rear tires a lot easier since very little lift will be required to get the tire off the ground compared to all my other vehicles where jack points are on the body.
The reason I am asking is that I have always done my own summer/winter tire swaps since I don't want any gorilla with a impact wrench installing or removing my wheels. Even though i have an air impact I still use a breaker bar to loosen the nuts since I have seen the damage to the chrome plating on the lug nuts that impacts can do.

 

Right after I got out of high school, I joined our local volunteer fire dept. The very first run I made was where a guy was working on a small farm tractor and had it jacked up with a stack of wooden blocks and a small bottle jack. The blocks shifted, causing the tractor to fall. A rear brake drum came down on his head and killed him instantly. I have the image forever burned into my memory. To this day I'm OCD about jacks, jack stands, and making certain things are safe before I crawl under a vehicle. I like working on my Tacoma, but not NEARLY so much that I'm willing to die over it. Be safe. Most of us have never actually met, but we are ALL friends and no one wants to see a friend get hurt.

 

I just use a 2.5 ton jack with 4 tons jack stands.

I also use a 4"x4"x4" block of wood on the jack to get it to the appropriate high.

 

I went free route on this. Friend is building a house, I took some wood from the trash pile to put under my stock jack.

 

100% in agreement. Neighbour was going to change a sway bar end link on his mazda after I checked it out and saw it was broken. Saw him going out to change it using the factory sicsor jack. Before he even started i ran out with my trolley jack and jack stands since i wanted him to be around for his kids.

Like the 4X4 tacoma since its high enough that I can even change the oil without putting it up on ramps.

 

So back to original question
What is the recommended location to place your jack to do the front?