skid jack or high lift jack?

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Huck

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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.
 

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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?
 

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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
 

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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

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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.

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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.
 
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