Tuesday, Jun 01, 2004 at 15:40
Jeremy,
In my opinion the high lift jack is not suitable for tyre changing duties. The reason are.....
1)you have to do a lot of jacking of the body (under bullbar etc) to get to the point where your
suspension is fully taken up, before you start to lift the wheel off the ground
2) once you do get the corner of the vehicle high enough off the ground so you can remove the tyre, the vehicle can become quite unstable and easily fall off the jack.....not pretty!!
If I'm just changing/rotating tyres in the driveway, I tend to use the hydraulic jack as it's a bit quicker. I don't think I've ever had to change a flat tyre out in the scrub in over 500,000klm of driving.....(maybe on the side of the road, but not on a gnarly bush track etc).
One other idea I pinched off another bloke was to carry a good sized jacking plate. Now it needed to be light and I needed to be able to put it somewhere out of the way. I also tend to go through floor mats under my feet REAL quick................
SOLUTION.........
Piece of 6mm thick aluminium chequerplate cut to the approximate shape of the drivers footwell. (rectangular with a couple of ends cut @ 45 degrees. Sits under my feet ready to use for jacking....& guaranteed not to wear out under my size # 10's
Cheers,
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