Hi lift jack

I went out to my truck last night and was thinking maybe mounting it on the bedside with the weight of the jack on the wheel well to take the load off the bedsides. How do you think that would work?

 

Anything to help with constant vibration or to lessen the weight of that jack would help. I also recommend buying that Jack rubber isolator for it. The metal clip for the handle is not worth chit.


Plus it works good to keep from the handle rebounding back and smashing your hand while holding the jack upright while lowering your rig. I've had the jack hit my head, knock others on their ars, smash my fingers, hit my chin, gashed my hand, tossed me into a truck and piss me off on so many occasions that the Hi Lift is now my back up for a winch only. Not saying it works, cause it works well, if you want your rig 3 feet lifted from the ground, no problem.

 

I've got the isolator. And I do know how dangerous they are but I'm not going on a solo trip with my wife and kids without one. It'll only be pulled out when absolutely necessary meaning it's either the hi lift or sit there stuck in the middle of no where.

 

http://www.hi-lift.com/accessories/index.html, Look through here Joon. It has both parts needed to do the job. I recommend having some stoppers along with the OBR (off-road base from Hi-Lift so the jack doesn't sink) for the front/rear of the vehicle so it doesn't roll forward while you lift from the back. I'd opt for a 2/3 ton floor shop jack but that thing would sink in the ground as im usually offroad and I don't want to rely on wood to support the truck.

 

We have the DayStar Poly Isolators available in both Black and Red.

 

I have mine mounted with some weight supported by my gun box. It is mounted to the front bed track using eye bolts. It has been back and forth across country, bounced around New Orleans streets and. Down a few dirt roads at high speed for almost 15K miles. Scroll down thru photos for picture.

https://www.tundras.com/threads/over-the-line-2016-cm-4-x-4-build.5884/

 

Hi lift jacks have a place but there's plenty of other gear that is important too.
I'm not sure but I believe most people probably don't use the jack and carry it for show.
I wore out the pins on mine and bought replacement pins with new springs. Most of the use was pulling fence posts out of the ground when I built fence on ranches. I also used it to break the bead on tires when they needed patching. I ran split rims on a lot of the trucks I had so I could do repairs anywhere.
I guess my point is that if you're not really familiar with it and not going to use it, don't bring it cause it's heavy and it wants to hurt you.

 

I used a piece of chain about 6' long with a grab hook on one end. You can swing it around the post, get about 3 turns.

 

Hi-Lift jacks are perfectly "safe" as long as you practice good use and jack it up right. The most common errors I've seen people make when jacking their truck up is not using a better base plate and/or positioning the foot of the jack a few inches inward of where you're jacking (because as you jack up it will move "forward").

Here's me using mine 2 weeks ago as I needed to swap out a tire that lost its bead due to a puncture in the sidewall..

 

I think I'm going to bolt it to the floor.

 

If you haul firewood or rock, gravel, sand or manure you could get some stuff in the mechanism down on the floor of the bed.

 

lol, no doubt! I'm just continually overlooking the obvious consequences of my actions that I saw something that might get overlooked and felt I should mention it.

 

Yeah... no. I'll never haul rock, gravel, sand, and especially manure . I'm just going to drill 2 bolts on the floor and I'll be able to remove it anytime. The bolts will be right next to the wheel well so not really in the way. As long as I can load 2 dirt bikes I'll be ok.

 

What about bolting to sidewall but placing foot on bed floor to take weight? Jack would angle over wheel well.

 

I have used mine twice in 155K miles for my truck. Once before I had a winch, in winch capacity, it worked but it is a pain. Once to get unstuck by lifting a wheel using the rim attachment. In both situations, nothing else would do. I wish I could hide mine under the rear seat like I did on my Titan.

I have used it to position a skid style duck blind, level a water cistern and do other jobs but the best was to unstuck a 350Z buried to the floor pan in sand. That wheel hook attachment is cool. Just jacked it one wheel at a time and put boards under the wheels for him to drive back to the road he should have never left.

You are right about lots for show.

 

that's nifty as hell @Hattori

 

Mounted mine on the inside bed. Been there thru plenty of off-road abuse and never fallen or come loose. You can use it on your hitch if you don't have sliders but no way to use it on the front if your stock.

 

@n2deep that's nice. I'm still considering this, but I'm pretty lazy.

 

very true in reference to the front bumper @n2deep

 

Super easy to build- buy some stock flat a couple of bends 4 bolts. I did weld some studs to it but you could just run the bolt thru to hold it. Just wants to fall off when you unmount the jack.

 

I have the base, the isolator, and a wheel attachment somewhere stored away. When I sold my Grand Cherokee, I didn't have an offroad vehicle anymore so I lent my Hi lift to a friend. But I couldn't find the accessories at the time so he just took the jack. Then my friend moved away and that fucker took the Hi lift with him. I called him a couple weeks ago to give my damn jack back knowing he was too far to give it back. He bitched a little but the next thing you know, a brand new one showed up at my door. Anyways, I remember seeing the accessories in a box when I moved, I just need to find it now. And I already carry 2 chocks in my truck.

 

@joonbug yeah, I figured out I can't afford any more friends!

 

Especially the dipshits that borrow stuff and don't return it til you ask for it back.

 

https://www.tundras.com/posts/126377/
Don't know if you saw my post in "best knife under $100", but I have some special junk just to loan "that friend", like the 4' level I drove over.