What jack do you have in your lifted vehicle?

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:21 am

Hey guys,

I'm curious to know what people are using for a jack in their lifted vehicles. I had a flat recently and found out my bottle jack (380mm lift height), doesn't get a tyre off the ground in one go. I need to jack, chock up the car, screw out the extension and then lift again. Need to do that 3 times, and 3 times to get it down again. Pain in the ass. I can't seem to find a bottle jack that will lift high enough, a trolley jack that can do the job is too big to have in the car, and a high lift seems a bit over the top. So what works for other people?

Post by **TOONGA** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:29 am

I only have the factory scissor jack under the hood. if it came down to needing to change the tyre, I'm pretty sure I would need a block of wood 300mm square by 200mm thick to put the jack on. it would lift the tyre off the ground just.

TOONGA

Post by **Alex** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:41 am

i have the biggest bottle jack they had in stock at supercheap. Cant remember the height of it but it lifted my wagon off the ground......JUST

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Wed May 25, 2011 12:41 pm

Pack a sturdy block of wood to accompany your existing jack.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed May 25, 2011 2:06 pm

I've got a bottle jack from dad's old rangie. Unfortunately he wants it back for his new rangie - so I've picked up another little unit that is basically the same but from a disco (dad's rangie jack pictured):

This is the advantage of this jack:

^ Its a great little jack that is a key piece of kit in our family, well, between dad and I! As of last night I only had this one and as said its headed back to dad so I jumped on ebay - I'm still kicking myself from missing the last one that was in melbs but found this one just before it ended. ~$90 including postage. Stoked. Just need to make a pole for it as that was a part of another auction for the tool kit at $50 that I didn't want to spend!

I can comfortably jack ruby scoo on a flat surface with the big tyres on with this jack. Rear diff and the engine crossmember are good jacking points for swapping the tyres over - and I can still jack individual wheels but the front can be tricky to lift in one hit without a block of wood (on the to get list after losing my last one) when on the 27's.

Cheers

Bennie

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Wed May 25, 2011 2:31 pm

Thanks for the responses guys. I like that one bennie, all the lift height comes from the stroke of the jack, whereas about 100mm of my current one comes from unscrewing the top which is useless once it has weight on it. Really need the jack to be able to lift higher than the suspension droop. I might have to check out PAP for something similar when i get my license back, then throw a block of wood in the back of the car

Cheers,

Rhys

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed May 25, 2011 2:40 pm

Venom wrote: I might have to check out PAP for something similar when i get my license back, then throw a block of wood in the back of the car

I've never seen them at PAP! Ebay would be your best bet. I look for "rover jack" in the cars/bikes/boats section, they'll usually come up in there if there are any listed.

The difference (forgot to mention) with the discovery jack that I've purchased is the handle mount is lower that the one in the pics above. Hard to describe but it's like an arm that drops below the hydraulic pump about an inch, this is where the handle slots into - it will be interesting to see how this effects the handle's range of motion.

Cheers

Bennie

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Wed May 25, 2011 6:23 pm

stock scissor jack + a bit of wood for a jacking plate. works fine

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Wed May 25, 2011 8:39 pm

vincentvega wrote:stock scissor jack + a bit of wood for a jacking plate. works fine

your car isn't high enough then:D:p

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:05 pm

This works fine no matter how high your Subaru is. It would work with a 50" lift kit if the block of wood is big enough. The key is that a Subaru's wheel hardly droops down at all so you only need to actually jack it a tiny bit off the wood.

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Thu May 26, 2011 12:53 pm

guyph_01 wrote:your car isn't high enough then:D:p

Its plenty high enough. its been more places than most