High Lift Jack
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From: S/W Missouri, Polk county
Great way to mess up a nice truck, if the truck moves when jacking from either bumper. I do not think the bumpers are rated to jack from underneath anyway? That's why you have a factory bottle jack to jack at the axle? Yea NO good off road...I know.
Anyway, if the truck moves the top half of the jack or any point above the ratchet lift point can lever right into the grill/tailgate, unless you have a proper place to put the HLJ tongue.
If you have ranch hand style tube bumpers weld a small flat plate on each outer underside and same for the back. Do not try it with the HLJ tongue in the receiver hitch, great way to get hurt....
Can make a place for it to fit on rock sliders if they are HD enough to lift the truck and IF you have them, the "Lift Mate" sort of works to get the tire up enough to put something in the hole it just dug.
But you have to uncompress the suspention all the way, then it will start to lift the tire. But the HLJ is great to do a slow winch out and can be a compression tool also if you flip the top bar around, see July's 2012 4Wheel & Off Road mag article.
Anyway, if the truck moves the top half of the jack or any point above the ratchet lift point can lever right into the grill/tailgate, unless you have a proper place to put the HLJ tongue.
If you have ranch hand style tube bumpers weld a small flat plate on each outer underside and same for the back. Do not try it with the HLJ tongue in the receiver hitch, great way to get hurt....
Can make a place for it to fit on rock sliders if they are HD enough to lift the truck and IF you have them, the "Lift Mate" sort of works to get the tire up enough to put something in the hole it just dug.
But you have to uncompress the suspention all the way, then it will start to lift the tire. But the HLJ is great to do a slow winch out and can be a compression tool also if you flip the top bar around, see July's 2012 4Wheel & Off Road mag article.
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