Jack Qs

[IMm29]

To the guys with full-sized SUVs (i.e. LC, Prado, Pajero, Patrol, etc.), what jack do you use?

A) The stock hydraulic bottle-type jack?
- whose handle bar you've got to keep turning till forever, till you can have enough lift

B) Other types of hydraulic bottle-type jack?
- the one with the pump type handle bar

C) Others?

It was only recently that I had a look at the jack in my Prado, and had subsequently tried it out. Demmit! It takes forever to turn/twist that handle bar just to lift one side coz of the long suspension travel, and it takes about the same time to twist it to lower that side. There's got to be an easier way.

For my other car, I have a 2 ton crocodile/alligator type jack that makes easy work of replacing a tire. Same jack can't take the Prado tho.

[boybi]

i use a 2.5ton crocodile jack for my patrol.

[IMm29]

Thanks boybi. Isn't it bulky?

[ARB]

sir you might have put the jack on the wrong part of the vehicle. since you mentioned that you had to jack it high enough because of the wheel travel.

it is recommended that you jack sa suspension arm sa front so that it goes up after a few turns and sa rear sa axle or sa lower shock mount if the jack can go under it.

[boybi]

Thanks boybi. Isn't it bulky?

bulky, and maingay kapag dumaan sa rough roads or humps. pero ok lang, maluwag naman sa likod.

[IMm29]

Thanks for the inputs guys.

sir you might have put the jack on the wrong part of the vehicle. since you mentioned that you had to jack it high enough because of the wheel travel.

it is recommended that you jack sa suspension arm sa front so that it goes up after a few turns and sa rear sa axle or sa lower shock mount if the jack can go under it.

hmmm... baka nga, ARB. although that's where the manual said that i put it. or at least that's where i thought the manual said. i'll have a look again. thanks! ;)

btw, what jack do you use?

bulky, and maingay kapag dumaan sa rough roads or humps. pero ok lang, maluwag naman sa likod.

Ah ok. Not much of a problem with me, may mga maiingay din sa oto ko. Hehehe! Thanks!

[kimpOy]

alam ko nag post ako dito ah...

well crocojack din gamit ko before nung may trooper ako...

[ARB]

sa shop we use croc jack, but when changing flats the original bottle jack lang.

[redorange]

My truck came with a scissor jack and it was alot of hassle to use. So I bought a portable floor jack good for 2.5 tons and have two jack stands in the back with it.

But I'd rather have this kind of a jack.
http://autorepair.about.com/library/bl_funny-4.htm

[IMm29]

My truck came with a scissor jack and it was alot of hassle to use. So I bought a portable floor jack good for 2.5 tons and have two jack stands in the back with it.

portable floor jack? is this the bottle type of croc type? or something like the one you're showing below?

But I'd rather have this kind of a jack.
http://autorepair.about.com/library/bl_funny-4.htm

Hahaha! Nice jack stands!

[redorange]

portable floor jack? is this the bottle type of croc type? or something like the one you're showing below?


Hahaha! Nice jack stands!

Floor jack is something like this.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=47246

What's a croc jack? I'm trying to save so I can put rock sliders on my truck so I can use a high lift instead.
http://www.landrangercymru.co.uk/details.php?id=2

[IMm29]

Floor jack is something like this.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=47246

Yep, that's a croc jack. It's like a croc's open mouth when partially or fully lifted.

[OTEP]

I use the OEM bottle jack. Though after the lift, it was pretty useless.

Btw, Blade sells electric powered bottle jacks. A bit more compact than crocodile jacks and still able to lift most SUV's.

[boybi]

OTEP, what's the power source? the cigarette plug? saan meron nyan and how much?

[IMm29]

Hmmm... ok yan ah OTEP. Pero ang deal dapat jan is kukunin mo lang kapag naiangat niya yung oto mo. I was at Concorde last Friday and I asked about the pump handle-type bottle jack and croc jack. Told the salesguy that we've got to test both first, and whichever lifts my rig quicker and easier, that I'd get. He was willing to go the extra mile (meters only actually) and test it for me. Too bad I didn't bring my rig then. May come back for it tomorrow tho.

[swordsman]

Floor jack is something like this.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=47246

so where in metro manila could i buy a similar floor jack? the big ones usually used by neighborhood talyer? saw one in one of the better known shops but the price - you better be in car-repair business, or changing/rotating tires/mags weekly. probably since branded din yong floor jack.

[OTEP]

OTEP, what's the power source? the cigarette plug? saan meron nyan and how much?

Sa power outlet siya kumukha ng power. Siguro naman kapag flat ang gulong mo ay hindi naman flat ang battery mo.

They are being sold at Blade outlets. Baka meron din sa ibang mall car accessory shops. I'll check the prices when I go there probably on Monday.