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Ill weigh in on this subject this morning ,being that i utilize floor jacks and
bottle jacks every day in my repair shop .First thing to realize is that most if
not all ,these days , floor jacks are chinese or taiwan and are junk !
(as has been said) .Forget the whole seal idea and take it back for a refund
or credit for some craftsman hand wrenches .You may find that the jack will
collapes down and seriouse injury will happen ,so do not mess with somthing
such as a jack holding up your vehical while your under it ,Yes ,you have jack stands under the vehical ,but never try to fix these things ,they are of
extremely poor quality in the first place ,thats why they leak and fail quickly.
You could do this on the older high quality service station floor jacks of
years past ,as they leaked after many years of trouble free service.
Alcan , is a floor jack thats been around and is of high quality ,proffesional
grade tools and specifically ,jacks as we are talking about ,should be high quality ,so even if it costs 200 dollars or more ,whats your life worth ?
thats the question .I use bottle jacks for heavy vehicals ,motorhomes,trucks
4x4 vehicals and the airstream and customers trailers as well .You get a straight UP lift ,and the bottle jack can easily handle this type of lifting as
long as its rated for the load ,go bigger if you can ,those tiny bottle jacks
really are unstable and unsafe ,and if they are chinese or taiwan ,they will
fail too .A floor jack can be ruined quickly when lifting a heavy truck or trailer
as the (load) is too high and the jack cannot lift it and becomes overloaded
you can tell because it will try to lift it ,then it will not go higher and will
blow inside ,not always leaking outwordly ,yet now will not raise up anything.
Ok ,thats my professional opinion on jacks .Be Safe is the main thing always
and use jack stands ,even if your in a hurry ,your life is worth it .
Scott of scottanlily
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