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Vehicle & Technical => Not Anything Listed Above.... => Topic started by: Popoff on April 19, 2007, 20:25:10

Title: High lift jack for Fourtrak
Post by: Popoff on April 19, 2007, 20:25:10

Hi all, my first post, hope you can help!  Do any of you use a "High lift Jack" (Farm Jack) on ther Fourtraks, I havent got a jack and thought about using one, but dont know how you would fit it to lift the 4x4, could you use the tow bar (ball & Pin type) at the back and the recovery points at the front, by connecting with a short "strop" to the foot of the Jack? :)

Title: High lift jack for Fourtrak
Post by: Skibum346 on April 20, 2007, 22:52:55

Popoff...

Teh short strop method has been used to adapt the high lift jack to lift air suspension or extreme suspension vehicles using the wheel to connect to... no reason other than basic physics why it shouldn't work.

You can buy and adaptor plate for lifting defenders with... basically a chunk of box section steel with a peg on the front that slots into an appropriate tube/hole etc. Might work for you.

If your sure of the security of your tow hitch then it would be possible but you need somewhere the jack aint gonna slip off... cuz ifin it did...   :shock:

If you make it to one of the mud club events or a pub meet I'm sure someone would let you try their jack out before you bought your own...

Skibum

Title: High lift jack for Fourtrak
Post by: Popoff on April 20, 2007, 23:40:16

Thanks for that, Tow ball is new and would put strop or D ring through the tow pin so cant slip off, just an idea!

Title: High lift jack for Fourtrak
Post by: J.D. on April 27, 2007, 13:42:48

I use my hi-lift on the fourtrak all the time. If you have a piece of box section behind the towbar, which the towbar is bolted onto, it wil jack off that.

On the front, I use the supports for the bullbars, its never slipped off yet.

Title: High lift jack for Fourtrak
Post by: Popoff on April 27, 2007, 22:06:16

Thanks for that, I will have to get one now I know it will work on my Fourtrak, whats the best place to carry/store one, will it fit on the floor behind the front seats ok?

Title: High lift jack for Fourtrak
Post by: J.D. on May 01, 2007, 18:56:18

TBH, I'm not sure. I removed all the seats bar the front two in mine to turn it into a van, and it fitted along one side and was bungeed in, as it is usually mounted on the Disco.

Title: High Lift Jack
Post by: Popoff on May 01, 2007, 23:10:48

Hi thanks for that, I have also removed the rear seats in mine so may well do what you did and fit it along the side, when I get one will have to have a play :lol: