Do you still carry a High Lift?

Hi-lifts can also be used as winches. I've done this and they pull well but need resetting every metre. You need a rat-tail file to widen the head and a 3.2 tonne shackle. The larger ones do not fit.

I'm considering a hi-lift to replace the standard LR jack, which is too short and takes too long.

I would not mount anything on the rear wheel carrier, in fact I'd recommend all Defenders be fitted with an aftermarket carrier.

Hi-lifts can also be used to break beads on tyres. Done that too, works very well.

They are also useful for levering trees and so forth off tracks, although extreme care must be taken.

The hi-lift is very versatile.

For those with series2 Disco's, you maybe interested in some rock-rails which have been designed and will be manufactured soon. They are done by a guy in Melbourne and should be available in about a month. They will be compatible with a high-lift.
At the moment I don't know of any other rock-rails in Australia and these should retail for around $500 but I don't think a price has been finalised yet.

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Originally posted by rmp


I'm considering a hi-lift to replace the standard LR jack, which is too short and takes too long. .

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i wouldn't RMP, get yourself a good quality hydraulic bottle jack for changing tyres and jack from under the radius arms. the vehicle is too unsteady on a hi-lift to take a wheel off, you can do it, but it's really dangerous.
by all means get one for recovery. i've had one for a few years now and have used it a fair bit. funnily enough, not for recovery. i've used it for lifting the vehicle up far enough to put new springs in, it's got an extra tongue on the top that can be turned at right angles and with the aid of this i've used it as a crude clamp and vice, i've also used it for pulling a 6ft star picket out of the ground, which was sort of like winching i spose.
but you can bet that if you have one and you don't take it because someone's got a winch or the track isn't supposed to be that hard, you'll need it because the winch'll break down or the track will be worse than expected....you never know!

i dont using hi-lifts at all
i find them way to unstable 8O

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Originally posted by barney+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(barney)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-rmp


I'm considering a hi-lift to replace the standard LR jack, which is too short and takes too long. .

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i wouldn't RMP, get yourself a good quality hydraulic bottle jack for changing tyres and jack from under the radius arms. the vehicle is too unsteady on a hi-lift to take a wheel off, you can do it, but it's really dangerous.
by all means get one for recovery. i've had one for a few years now and have used it a fair bit. funnily enough, not for recovery. i've used it for lifting the vehicle up far enough to put new springs in, it's got an extra tongue on the top that can be turned at right angles and with the aid of this i've used it as a crude clamp and vice, i've also used it for pulling a 6ft star picket out of the ground, which was sort of like winching i spose.
but you can bet that if you have one and you don't take it because someone's got a winch or the track isn't supposed to be that hard, you'll need it because the winch'll break down or the track will be worse than expected....you never know![/b][/quote]

so looking at these posts, i'd say 2 highlifts would be a better alternative for stability... but then the problem of finding where to stow 2 :roll:

they can be a bit scary. but they are not meant for jacking a car to get underneath, just for recovery. if you used it to change a tyre, you'd have to have some sort of support as well, like a car stand

Yes on the roll bar.

I have rock sliders, bull bar that has jacking points and can use the rear bar as well.

Dave.

Hi all
About the Hilift jack. Yes I have used my jack just a few weeks ago, and if I did not have a Hilift jack. It would taken a lot of very hard akward digging to get free of the MUD. Using the Hilift it just lifted my defender out of the mud allowing me to fill in the holes where the wheel were and built an excape route.

PS I would love to know, how to attatch some photo to this reply for you all to view.

My Hilift jack is keep under the back seat with the rest of my recovery and that type of equipment.

Mike