Stock jack height

At the risk of looking like a complete putz, I ask of you guys/gals... Am I the only one who finds the stock jack to be too short? I've got a flat front tire and cannot lift the truck enough to remove the wheel. There certainly isn't enough room to stuff a replacement wheel with a fully inflated tire in there like this. It's all stock-no big tires, no lift. I'm generally a fairly competent person with an occasional DOH moment like most people. Maybe this is one of them.

Now that I'm thinking about this, what are you using with 35" tires and lifts? A Hi Lift is great if you've got somewhere to use it. I don't have sliders or a bumper that could take that sort of lift. Lastly, how big of a tire will fit in the stock spare location?

 

according to the manual the jack point for the front is on the frame behind the transmission cross member, is this where you tried to jack?

 

No. You're not.

The Mama Toyota, like so many OEM ones, is fully and completely inadequate. You need to keep a collection of shorter 2X6's in the back of the truck so that you can raise up "the ground" for jacking purposes. I find the stocker such a frustrating POS that I keep a 3 ton (or is it 6?) little hydraulic bottle jack in the bed too. Some 2X's and a little bottle jack makes it SO MUCH EASIER. With this set up you can easily jack right off of the frame.

And now a word from my lawyer: YMMV.

 

Yes, I was. When that didn't work, I used the cross member itself. No joy. Now that it's all over with, I suppose the ground may not have been level. I don't recall anything out of the ordinary.

TundraMcGov, good to know I hadn't lost my marbles. An inadequate jack is BS. People can get badly hurt stacking things to get the jack up high enough. Today, all I had at my disposal were rocks and deadfall.