skid jack or high lift jack?

[IRONMAN]

Skid jack

 

[Maxx2893]

Skid.

 

[Blind1]

I prefer a can of "Fix-A-Flat"; To hell with jacking anything up!

 

[Huck]

Best is to get a skid jack, and hit up your local machine shop, or a friend with access and have them make a spacer for you. A lot of the 2.5 tons dont have the travel to get to the frame and still raise it enough to get a tire out.

I just had spacer made for my craftsman. Now it works fantastically.

 

[MagicMtnDan]

In theory Hi-Lift Jacks can be multi-purpose tools. But they can be quite dangerous to use in most of those applications. In addition, there are, as others have said, few lifting points on a Raptor making its use rather limited.

A skid jack with some large timbers (4x4s) can do lots of things safely.

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Best is to get a skid jack, and hit up your local machine shop, or a friend with access and have them make a spacer for you. A lot of the 2.5 tons dont have the travel to get to the frame and still raise it enough to get a tire out.

I just had spacer made for my craftsman. Now it works fantastically.

Can you post a pic for folks to see what you did there?

 

[Huck]

Ill try to get to it tonight.

Ill explain with some literature using ironmans photo.

The plate that contacts the frame. I just made a spacer to raise the height of the plate.

See attached photo, best i can do right now at work.

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Small end drops into the jack, large end accepts the disk

 

[mouldman1]

Skid jack

2 ton is sufficient? was thinking of 3 ton...

 

[Huck]

1.5 ton is enough. Your not lifting the whole truck, only a quarter of its entire weight.

 

[MotuMute]

Kind of depends on whether you plan to go on any sand dune runs.

Last year at the Lil Sahara sand dunes I de-beaded my right front tire drifting too aggressively with them aired down. Tried just airing it back up but the valve stem had gotten damaged, so no go



Lesson learned because changing a tire in the sinking sand is a royal pain in the ass. I'm not sure a skid jack would have had enough reach.

Fortunately Jimmy (WSI) had a high lift jack, and coupled with a block of wood it had reach to spare.



And what if you go flat in the mud. As for me, I just want a spare as quickly and painlessly as possible, so I will end up with both.

 

[IRONMAN]

2 ton is sufficient? was thinking of 3 ton...

2 ton is plenty. Raptizzle told me to get it because his 1.5 ton was having some troubles and recommended it.