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Old Mar 23, 2005 | 10:10 PM
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A skateboard? How does that get up high enough?
i said a skateboard instead of a tranny jack. i jut lower the tranny onto the skateboard and roll it out.
Old Mar 23, 2005 | 10:14 PM
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In my garage I have one jack, two jackstands and two ramps.

Mostly, I go bug this guy I know who has one of these:



I need to go over there one of these days and put on my exhaust. I am so damn lazy...
Old Mar 25, 2005 | 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Broaner
What exactly is a tranny jack? I've been wondering about that for a while.

The aluminum racing jack that Sears sells is quite low. I don't have a lip but I imagine it would fit.

Zero, just think if they would have offered the sale without the stands you could've gotten it for $75-80
I forgot that I had a Craftsman Club flyer laying around. The same jack that I bought a couple of years ago was on sale for $89.99 and it came with 2 jackstands,2 wheel chocks, a creeper seat, 4-way lug wrench, fender cover and jumper cables. That's one hell of a deal but you had to be a Craftsman Club member.
Old Dec 25, 2007 | 10:25 AM
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2 jacks - Craftsman all aluminum racing jack and a Craftsman steel, 4 stands

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Old Dec 25, 2007 | 10:49 AM
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2 jacks/4 stands

one 3.5 ton craftsman like matt's and one 6 ton bottle jack.
Old Dec 25, 2007 | 07:07 PM
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Revived! Ha. Actually its good that this popped up so I can warn everybody about Craftsman aluminum jacks. Sometime in '04I bought one of Sears supposed aluminum super duper racing jacks. Less than a year later it got messed up in the ram. I didn't even bother trying to figure out because it was still under warranty. Took it back and got a replacement only to have that one go out seven months later out of the "One time replacement warranty". Tried getting it going with no avail. The guts of the ram just went to ****. Fixing the seals would have been doable but would have been a serious PITA and still cost some money.

After that I got fed up and went with this. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92782
This thing gets way lower than the Crapsman would; easily gets under the every part of my 240 which has absurd ground clearance.

Anyway, I really posted because I'm looking for a place to get a high lift floorjack locally. I'm starting to do stuff to my DD truck and I need one of these to really do anything. Lifting from the frame with my racing jack barely gets the tires off the ground. I'm doing a body lift this week and I need something that really gets up there to get the body off. I need something about like this but locally because shipping that 160lbs beast is gonna be a bear.
http://www.hyjacks.com/hifloor.htm
Any ideas?

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Old Dec 25, 2007 | 08:23 PM
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I have a craftsman aluminum race jack, a craftsman steel floor jack, a generic steel floor jack, a couple bottle jacks.....and about 4 different sets jackstands, including big ones for the jeep....

btw, re: broaner's issue...did you bleed the jack correctly? Every so often it needs to be re-bled and re-oiled. I've had mine for a couple years now and it gets some SERIOUS use (autocross, 100x jacking the maxima up, even many times jacking up the jeep at max lift) and abuse, and it still works great.
Old Dec 25, 2007 | 09:25 PM
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First one I didn't screw around with at all. Just brought it back and got a new one. Second I've spent a fair amount of time screwing around with it as per the manual. What is the bleeding procedure you recomend?
Old Dec 25, 2007 | 11:56 PM
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I have my leaky and broken swivel joint piece of **** Craftsman Aluminum racing jack that I paid $200 for and my still working but heavy as crap steel jack.
Old Dec 26, 2007 | 12:18 AM
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ive got a heavy 3ton jack i usually use most of the time, along with a lighter 2 ton aluminum jack, and 4 normal height jackstands, and a pair of these jackstands ive used to drop an engine out through the bottom of a car. Fully extended, they are almost 2.5-3ft freakin high.
Old Dec 26, 2007 | 11:25 AM
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2 low pro jack 1 regular jack and 8 jack stands
Old Dec 26, 2007 | 04:21 PM
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1 large steel floor jack, 1 medium aluminum rapid lift floor jack, 1 bottle jack, 4 small jack stands, and 2 large jack stands.
Old Dec 26, 2007 | 04:39 PM
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Craftsman Race Jack-2 ton
Craftsman Heavy Duty Jack
Small floor jack to go to the track with, bought it at Advanced auto....FTL

6 jackstands

1 Harbor Freight Tranny/Rear end jack, made the rear end swap easy in the gayata...

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Old Dec 26, 2007 | 09:58 PM
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Craftsman Race Jack
Craftsman Medium Size Jack

A pair of Craftsman Jackstands
Old Jan 22, 2008 | 04:07 PM
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2 floor jacks, 6 jack stands and a engine hoist.
Old Jan 23, 2008 | 10:07 AM
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Ended up picking this badboy up from HarborFreight. I've had my eye on it every time I go in the store. But two weeks ago it went on this sale. $120! Crazy. Anyway, its a fxckin monster. It can easily get high enough to roll my truck over. Pics of it in action later. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=42820
Old Jan 23, 2008 | 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Broaner
Revived! Ha. Actually its good that this popped up so I can warn everybody about Craftsman aluminum jacks. Sometime in '04I bought one of Sears supposed aluminum super duper racing jacks. Less than a year later it got messed up in the ram. I didn't even bother trying to figure out because it was still under warranty. Took it back and got a replacement only to have that one go out seven months later out of the "One time replacement warranty". Tried getting it going with no avail. The guts of the ram just went to ****. Fixing the seals would have been doable but would have been a serious PITA and still cost some money.

After that I got fed up and went with this. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92782
This thing gets way lower than the Crapsman would; easily gets under the every part of my 240 which has absurd ground clearance.

Anyway, I really posted because I'm looking for a place to get a high lift floorjack locally. I'm starting to do stuff to my DD truck and I need one of these to really do anything. Lifting from the frame with my racing jack barely gets the tires off the ground. I'm doing a body lift this week and I need something that really gets up there to get the body off. I need something about like this but locally because shipping that 160lbs beast is gonna be a bear.
http://www.hyjacks.com/hifloor.htm
Any ideas?
Mine failed within 7 months also!!!

One of these days I'll get one of these............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nhJGzRguQ
Old Jan 23, 2008 | 11:34 PM
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Just one jack from Costco and jack stands. Hehe.
Old Jan 28, 2008 | 12:58 PM
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2 scissor jacks, 1 hydraulic jack (not bottle, and four jack stands. Looking to build two ramps soon.
Old Jan 28, 2008 | 07:29 PM
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1 small (1 ton?) and 1 medium (2 ton?) One for each side of the car. Jack it up in the right place and the whole side (front and back) comes up. I also have a lift that I've not set up yet (need to concrete floor). 2 jack stands and lots of blocks as well as peices of wood.

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Old Jan 29, 2008 | 01:39 PM
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Ive always owned the junky little red ones. I just bought my first light weight decent jack today. It was at home depot. Its a husky and came with 2 jack stands. I now have 3 sets of jacks stands a scissor lift and the husky. Was maked down from $129 to $99.
Old Jan 31, 2008 | 06:59 AM
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I have one large floor jack, one of the cheap little red ones (doesn't lift the Max high enough but works fine on the other 2 cars), and 6 jackstands. Looking to get a couple ramps too but I'm having trouble finding some that can deal with my lowered cars.
Old Jan 31, 2008 | 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by nearthisbridge
I have one large floor jack, one of the cheap little red ones (doesn't lift the Max high enough but works fine on the other 2 cars), and 6 jackstands. Looking to get a couple ramps too but I'm having trouble finding some that can deal with my lowered cars.
Kinda pricey,but seem to be well constructed..

http://www.discountramps.com/sports_car_ramps.htm
Old Feb 9, 2008 | 03:24 PM
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2 Jacks
8 jack stands
2 ramps
Old Feb 18, 2008 | 07:25 PM
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This is that beast from Harbor Freight.
Old Feb 18, 2008 | 09:57 PM
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no... jack up the S13 with it.
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 07:57 AM
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LOL. That would definitely put the thing on its door.
Old Feb 20, 2008 | 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Broaner
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This is that beast from Harbor Freight.

Nice tires.
Old Apr 8, 2008 | 12:12 AM
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2 jacks
2 jack stands
2 sets of ramps
and one set of 4 "homemade" 4" wood ramps that are great for oil changes.
Old Apr 9, 2008 | 04:40 AM
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1 jack
3 sets of jack stands

i really do need a new floor jack. my dad has had this one from northern hydrlics for like 10 years.

im also in need of a engine hoist in case i ever decide to put the dek in
Old Apr 22, 2008 | 03:19 PM
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I have a 3 ton jack and stands, My dad paid $60 for the jack at sears I bought the stands at murrays for around $25


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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 08:38 PM
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107lbs NEVER leaves the garage. 8 jackstands 2-3 extra OEM style jacks.
Old Apr 29, 2008 | 08:55 PM
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3 Jacks, one 3 ton for my truck, 1 little one for my trunk, on other little one for my garage, and let's not forget the motorcycle jack, and also two stands.
Old Apr 30, 2008 | 08:25 AM
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I have a 3 ton, then like 5 of those 2 ton jacks that I would buy when I was moving around and they had the deals with a two ton jack and 2 jackstands for like 20 bucks haha
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