stock bottle jack = crap

[Jeepinmanch]

Everyone do yourselves a fovor! If you havent allready throw out your crappy stock bottle jack as either mine is broken and won't fully extend or they are poorly designed. I found out the hard way on the side of the interstate on sunday. I now have an adequate scissor jack and the stock one is in the dumpster! The guys at the tire shop didnt take the tailgate off when they put my spare back and scratched the paint and bent the tag. :chillin: <<

[Renegade]

I've never seen a jack in any vehicle worth 2 cents.

[HOrnbrod]

Everyone do yourselves a fovor! If you havent allready throw out your crappy stock bottle jack as either mine is broken and won't fully extend or they are poorly designed. I found out the hard way on the side of the interstate on sunday. I now have an adequate scissor jack and the stock one is in the dumpster! The guys at the tire shop didnt take the tailgate off when they put my spare back and scratched the paint and bent the tag. :chillin: <<

 

Yeah, they are useless for what they were made for -jacking- but I find other uses for it all the time. Pushing and Shoving: Like moving the axle back into place when changing LCAs, etc. Spreading: Used it today installing a new trailer hitch. The mounting arms were a bit too close to clear the bumper brackets and the bottle jack w. a 4x4 opened it right up. I'll keep mine, but not for jacking. :D

[Oizarod115]

:dunno: i can't use mine on the XJ, but my stock bottle jack is the fastest way to get my jeep off the ground, and seems way safer than the hi-lift. considering the fact that the hilift has now dropped the XJ twice :dunno:

 

use mine all the time.

[DirtyComanche]

I never had a stock one that worked. They always just seemed weird and didn't do anything.

 

 

Maybe I was doing something wrong.

 

 

I carry a bottle jack instead, one of those slightly expensive ones. But not in the MJ. Well, I should but I don't. I always just use the hi-lift. And yes, I've dropped my truck with it more times than I can count.

[feerocknok]

I've used mine twice on my Toyota. Once while high centered on the case weld of my Magnaflow, so I went under the frame and another rock. The second time with my front leaf spring stuck on a large rock (have no idea how I got it up there) and I jacked up the bumper.

They work well in tight spots.

[Geonovast]

I kept a 2 1/4 ton jack in my XJ for awhile, because that bottle jack is utterly useless

[Oizarod115]

weird. i can't think of a time mine hasn't worked... in fact, we have 4 of them that all work :nuts: one from a 84 grand waggy, two from XJs and one frm my truck :D

 

but i lied the fastest way to get a tire off the ground is the lift at school... followed shortly by floorjacks at home :brows:

[Geonovast]

but i lied the fastest way to get a tire off the ground is the lift at school... followed shortly by floorjacks at home trust me

That's not entirely true....I saw an Intrepid oveshoot some ramps..much faster than any jack.. lol

[Pete M]

Those of you who have dropped a rig off the hi-lift, what was it that slipped? The jack off the rig? The jack base on the ground? or did the rig move on you?

[87manche]

Those of you who have dropped a rig off the hi-lift, what was it that slipped? The jack off the rig? The jack base on the ground? or did the rig move on you?

I've had it happen twice.

it seems that both times the rig simply shifted while we were jacking it up or down, and slipped off the hi lift.

 

I'll never crawl under a rig supported by a hi lift, I always carry some jackstands in the rig.

[DirtyComanche]

I've had everthing go wrong jacking with a hi-lift. Typically once you go too high, the jack is on an angle and will slip out from under the frame or kick out the base. I've also had the truck shift sideways and bend one. And a bunch of other things I don't want to admit to.

[feerocknok]

The reason I ever use a bottle jack is so that it'll slip and get me unstuck. I'd never use one to support my vehicle.

[Pete M]

I strap the hi-lift to my rig with a ratchet strap, anyone else try that?

[Tracker]

I strap the hi-lift to my rig with a ratchet strap, anyone else try that?

I do that- When I'm not going to drive off the jack as part of the recovery. In my work (Game Warden) truck I use the high lift often. The only thing worse that getting stuck is having to get on the radio and let the whole world know about it. I use the jack to winch myself out as much as jack up. The older models have chain hooks that make them a bit more useful.

I agree about the stock mechanical bottle jacks. I keep a Harbor Freight hydraulic and a couple boards under the seat too.

[Oizarod115]

our hi-lift used to get gummed up or stuck or w/e would happen but the actual jack would just slide all the way down cause a pin in it got stuck..

 

we now rebuild it and clean it and grease it regularly :roll: