Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
(turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
& it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.

TIA - George

Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

www.tirerack.com for the tires. I love my Goodyear MT/R's

Carl

"Jersey" <IamHellbound@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:j8idnT4BgpuHYFbcRVn-gA@comcast.com...
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George
>
>

Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

www.tirerack.com for the tires. I love my Goodyear MT/R's

Carl

"Jersey" <IamHellbound@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:j8idnT4BgpuHYFbcRVn-gA@comcast.com...
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George
>
>

Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

www.tirerack.com for the tires. I love my Goodyear MT/R's

Carl

"Jersey" <IamHellbound@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:j8idnT4BgpuHYFbcRVn-gA@comcast.com...
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George
>
>

Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

No, a high lift jack will 'not' work for changing a tire.

It is properly called a 'Widow Maker' and has no business being anywhere
near a Jeep. It is a farm tool that some redneck took in his Jeep and
convinced others it was a 'cool' thing to have because they couldn't
afford a jack or even a hand winch. It's not. Look ma, I don't need no
stinking jack to change a tire and lookee at those fools with winches,
the day before they buried him 6' under....

I carry a small hydraulic floor jack like your helper. It fits behind
the passenger seat great and I carry a 'come-A-long' cable hand winch.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Jersey wrote:
>
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George

Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

No, a high lift jack will 'not' work for changing a tire.

It is properly called a 'Widow Maker' and has no business being anywhere
near a Jeep. It is a farm tool that some redneck took in his Jeep and
convinced others it was a 'cool' thing to have because they couldn't
afford a jack or even a hand winch. It's not. Look ma, I don't need no
stinking jack to change a tire and lookee at those fools with winches,
the day before they buried him 6' under....

I carry a small hydraulic floor jack like your helper. It fits behind
the passenger seat great and I carry a 'come-A-long' cable hand winch.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Jersey wrote:
>
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George

Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

No, a high lift jack will 'not' work for changing a tire.

It is properly called a 'Widow Maker' and has no business being anywhere
near a Jeep. It is a farm tool that some redneck took in his Jeep and
convinced others it was a 'cool' thing to have because they couldn't
afford a jack or even a hand winch. It's not. Look ma, I don't need no
stinking jack to change a tire and lookee at those fools with winches,
the day before they buried him 6' under....

I carry a small hydraulic floor jack like your helper. It fits behind
the passenger seat great and I carry a 'come-A-long' cable hand winch.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Jersey wrote:
>
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George

Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

Those Hi-lift jacks are just a copy of the old (dating myself again) bumper
jacks that cars used to have, they worked but more people got injured using
them. If you want a different jack the small bottle that came with. try
either a small floor jack, a medium bottle jack or something similar.

Snow...

"Jersey" <IamHellbound@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:j8idnT4BgpuHYFbcRVn-gA@comcast.com...
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George
>
>


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Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

Those Hi-lift jacks are just a copy of the old (dating myself again) bumper
jacks that cars used to have, they worked but more people got injured using
them. If you want a different jack the small bottle that came with. try
either a small floor jack, a medium bottle jack or something similar.

Snow...

"Jersey" <IamHellbound@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:j8idnT4BgpuHYFbcRVn-gA@comcast.com...
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George
>
>


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Re: Hi-Lift Jack Thread
 

Those Hi-lift jacks are just a copy of the old (dating myself again) bumper
jacks that cars used to have, they worked but more people got injured using
them. If you want a different jack the small bottle that came with. try
either a small floor jack, a medium bottle jack or something similar.

Snow...

"Jersey" <IamHellbound@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:j8idnT4BgpuHYFbcRVn-gA@comcast.com...
> OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X)
> just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear,
> Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install
> a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the
> stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but
> I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the
> way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road,
> (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa
> someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the
> sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph
> cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon
> as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were
> at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire
> & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought
> about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the
> good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used.
> It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing.
> Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock
> bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy.
> I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend
> a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
>
> TIA - George
>
>


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